Franco A. Gianturco#
| Membership Number: | 2831 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.uibk.ac.at/ionen-angewandte-physik/molsyst/gianturco/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - present Senior Associate, Linacre College, University of Oxford
- 2013 - present Senior Research Professor, Institute of Ion Physics, University of Innsbruck
- 1979 -2013 Professor of Quantum Chemistry (First Chair) Dept. of Chemistry, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
- 1974 - 1979 Professor of Physical Chemistry, The University of Bari, Bari, Italy
- 1970 - 1974 Lecturer of Physical Chemistry, The University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- 1968 - 1970 Research Associate at the Theoretical Physics Division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (A.E.R.E.), Harwell, England
- 1965 - 1968 Research Fellow at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, England
- 1963 - 1965 Assistant Lecturer at the Physics Department of the Catholic University Medical School in Rome, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Chemical Processes
- Theoretical and Computational Molecular Sciences
Honours and Awards
- Invited Speaker and plenary Lecturer (since 1973) to several International Conferences and International Summer Schools for a total of about 300 invitations, nearly always outside Italy
- 1981-1989: Chairman of the Division of Atomic and Molecular Physics of the European Physical Society
- 1981-1991: Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC) and Chairman of the Committee (1989-1991)
- 1991: Received the Humboldt Research Prize from the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, through the Von Humboldt Foundation
- 1988 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 1989 Elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences
- 1994 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK)
- 2005 Elected Fellow of the European Physical Society
- 1995 Awarded the Research Prize of the Max-Planck Society for Chemical Physics
- 1996 Recipient of the P.O. Lowdin Lecture for 1996 by the University of Uppsala (Sweden)
- 1998 Recipient of the MOLEC Award, Bristol, Sept. 1998
- 2003 - 2006 President of the Supercomputing Consortium CASPUR
