Francesco Priolo - Curriculum Vitae#

• 2022 - now: Rector of the University of Catania
  
• 2001: Full Professor – University of Catania, Italy
  
• Co-author of >500 peer reviewed papers in journals including Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. B, etc.
  These journal papers have been cited >22,000 times (with > 40 papers cited over 100 times); H-index is 67 (Google Scholar)

• 2022 Elected Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Socio Corrispondente)
  
• 2016 Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC)
  
• 2001 Cavaliere della Repubblica by the Italian President of the Italian Republic
  
• 2001 Campisano Prize, Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Italy
  
• 1988 Graduate Student Award, Materials Research Society

• 2022-now: Member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
  
• 2010-now: Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences

• 2024 - now Member of the Research & Innovation Strategic Group of EUA (European University Association)
  
• 2023 - now Vice-President of the Italian Rector’s Conference and delegate for Research
  
• 2018 - 2019 Director of the “Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia ‘Ettore Majorana’”, University of Catania
  
• 2017 - 2019 President of the “Distretto Tecnologico Sicilia Micro e Nanosistemi s.c.a.r.l.”
  
• 2013 - 2018 President of the Scuola Superiore di Catania – Mediterrean University Centre, the School of excellence of the University of Catania
  
• 2009 - 2011 President of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS, Strasbourg - www.european-mrs.com),, and now Member of its Senate and Executive Committee
  
• 2004 - 2015 Director (and founder) of the Center of Materials and Technologies for Information, communication & Solar Energy (MATIS), now Research Unit of the CNR Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems – www.matis.imm.cnr.it
  
• 2016 & 2018 Panel Member of the European Research Council for Advanced Grants
  
• 2010 - 2014 Member of the Materials Science & Engineering Expert Committee (MatSEEC) of the European Science Foundation
  
• 2009 - 2012 President of the Research Committee of the University, University of Catania
  
• 2009 - 2012 Deputy Rector for International Relationships, University of Catania
  
• 2000 - 2005 Coordinator of the PhD School in Materials Science, University of Catania