Alessandra Continenza: Curriculum Vitae-studiorum Personal data

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Marital Status: Married, two children Present Position: Full Professor

Work Address Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences Universita’ degli Studi dell’Aquila

Via Vetoio 10

67100 L’Aquila (Italy)

Home Address Strada Vicinale di Paganica, 2 67100 L’Aquila (Italy)

ORCID 0000-0002-6169-2448

Education

• Laurea in Physics score: 110 cum laude Universita’ dell’Aquila

• Ph.D. Field of Physics - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (U.S.A.)

• National abilitation as Full professor - Condensed Matter theory, SC 02/B2 (dec. 2012)

Professional positions held

1983 Software analyst at ITALSIEL Roma (Italy).

1984 Research Ass. at Research and Development Labs.

ITALTEL - Milano (Italy).

1984 Appointed as Physics Teacher in public High School 1985 Grant from the Italian Department of Education

for graduate study abroad

1985 Research Assistant and Research Associate Material Research Center -

Northwestern University, Evanston, Il (USA) 1990 Postdoctorate position

Material Research Center -

Northwestern University, Evanston, Il (USA) 1990 Research Assistant - Physics Department -

Universita’ degli studi dell’Aquila.

2000 Associate Professor - Physics Department - Universita’ degli studi dell’Aquila.

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2007 Guest Professor, PhD program in Physics at University of Vienna Course: Advanced Topics on Magnetism and Superconductivity March - June 2007

2018 Full Professor Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences- Universita’ degli studi dell’Aquila.

Recent Institutional Appointments:

• Nov. 2003 - June 2007 Member of the committee for didactical affairs of the study Board in Physics of Universit`a dell’Aquila as representative of Con- densed Matter Physics

• Nov. 2005 - June 2007 Member of the committee for didactical affairs of of the study Board in Chemistry and Chemical techniques of Universit´a dell’Aquila as representative for Physical disciplines

• Nov. 2005 - Nov.2008 Representative of the Science School of Universit´a dell’Aquila (Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences) at the University Library Scientific Committee

• 2008-2012 President of the Library System for the Science and Medical panels of the Universit`a degli Studi dell’Aquila

• 2008-2012 Coordinator of the local Research Unit CNISM (Italian Inter-university Consortium for Condensed Matter Physics)

• 2007 - present: Rector delegate at CNISM (Italian Inter-university Consortium for Condensed Matter Physics)

• Oct. 2012 - Oct. 2018: Chair of the Physics Study Board at Universit`a degli studi dell’Aquila

• Vice-president of the organising committee of the 105 Congress of the Italian Physical Society

• Pro-rector for Teaching affairs at Universit´a degli Studi dell’Aquila Other recent appointments and recognitions:

• 2006 Member of the Advisory board of CIMTEC (spin-injection and transport in Magnetoelectronics)

• 2009-2015 Member of the editorial board of Journ. of Magn. and Magn. Mat.

• 2010 Expert member of the Physics Panel for the evaluation of EU-pojects (NMP-activities)

• 2011-present Member of the International Advisory Board of the Korean Mag- netics Society

• 2011-present Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Magnetics published by the Korean Magnetics Society

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• 2011 Member of the organizing committee: Italian Physical Society S.I.F. sett.

2011 L’Aquila

• 2011 Organisation of the interactive exhibit ’Semplice e Complesso’ ’ L’Aquila Sept-Oct 2011: first exhibit in the heart of the inhibited ’red zone’ downtown area http://www.aquila.infn.it/semplicecomplesso.

• Member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Confer- ence on Magnetism (ICM 2012, ICM 2015, ICM 2018).

• 2012-present Expert member of the Physics Panel for EU- Marie Curie actions

• Dec. 2013 National abilitation as Full Professor in Condensed Matter Physics Theory (SC: 02/B2)

• 2016 Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society - AIP

• 2017 Member of the Editorial board of Heliyon-Elsevier publisher

• 2018 Reviewer for the Paul Scherrer Institut Fellow program (Switzerland) Courses delivered at Universit`a degli studi dell’Aquila:

• Condensed Matter Physics - Master degree in Physics

• Molecular Physics - Master degree in Physics

• Solid State Physics I and II - Master degree in Physics

• Computational Physics - Undergraduate course in Chemical Science and Tech- nology and Material science.

• Computational Methods - Undergraduate course in Chemical Science and Technology and Material science.

• Solid state Physics - Master degree in Physics

• General Physics, Electromagnetism - Undergraduate course in Civil and En- vironmental Engineering

• Fundamentals of Condensed Matter Physics - Undergraduate course in Physics Primary fields of scientific interest:

First principle studies of electronic structure and energetics in bulk materials, interfaces and surfaces.

• Semiconductor/semiconductor and metal/semiconductor interfaces: potential barrier, band alignment at heterojunctions and their dependence on epitaxial strain, growth direction, intrinsic polarity. Band tuning in semiconductors for device applications.

• Superconductivity: ab-initio study of electronic properties of several different compounds (high critical temperature compounds and conventional supercon- ductors) effects of dopants and substitutions.

• Application and extensions of density functional theory to the superconduct- ing state.

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• Electronic and magnetic properties of magnetic semiconductors and materials for spintronic applications: study of their properties as a function of chemical composition, defects, dopants

The results of her research activity have been published in international peer reviewed journals with referees (more than 150 publications) and presented at several international conferences. Referee of various specialized journals, such as: Physical Review (Letters, PRB), APL, IOP-Physics and Elsevier-Physics journals.

Recent Projects:

• PI of Cineca- various kind of high performance computer (HPC) calls, presently ISCRA C and B: awarded on a yearly basis since 2000 (and earlier on) till present

• MIUR- PRIN 2005 -

• EU-FP7 DEISA, DECI-6: Pricipal Investigator of the project SUPERMAG

• MIUR- PRIN 2012

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