BERNASCONI MARCO

Role
Full Professor  
Academic disciplines
Theoretical Physics of Matter, Models, Mathematical Methods and Applications (PHYS-04/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
THEORETICAL PHYSICS OF MATTER, MODELS, MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND APPLICATIONS (02/PHYS-04)
Office phone
Room:
  • U05, Floor: 2, Room: 2067

Biography

Marco Bernasconi is full professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Milano-Bicocca since 2016. He has a Phd and a Master in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from SISSA-Trieste (1993 and 1991) and an undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Milano (1988). He spent few years as a postdoctoral fellow at Sissa (1993-1994) and at the Max-Planck-Institut FKF in Stuttgart (1994-1996). He held the positions of Assistant Professor at the University of Milano (1996-1998) and at the University of Milano-Bicocca (1998-2001) and then of Associate Professor (2001-2016) at the University of Milano-Bicocca. His research activity is dedicated to theoretical condensed matter physics, and in particular to electronic structure calculations and atomistic simulations of materials for energy and for applications in microelectronics and photonics. He published over 170 articles on international journals with peer-review that received over  7000 citations with H-index=48 (ISI-Web of Knowledge, January 2023). He gave over 60 invited talks at international conferences and schools, and over 30 invited seminars at Universities, Research Centers and Industries in Italy and abroad.  He has been responsible  of the Milano-Bicocca unit in several national  (PRIN, Fondazione Cariplo) and international  projects (Horizon2020, EU-FP7, bilateral projects) and of industrial research contracts with the companies Pirelli  and Micron Semiconductors. He has given courses on Condensed Matter Physics (Structure of Matter), Molecular Physics and  Quantum Mechanics. He supervised several undergraduate thesis, Phd thesis and  the activity of postdoctoral fellows. He was co-chair of  international workshops and schools, he was responsible of the research unit of Milano-Bicocca of the consortium CNISM (2005-2011), and  he was   the dean of the Phd program in Materials Science and Nanotechnology of the University of Milano-Bicocca (2017-2022).

Publications

  • Baratella, D., Abou El Kheir, O., Bernasconi, M. (2024). Unraveling the crystallization kinetics of Ge-rich GexTe phase change alloys with a machine-learned interatomic potential. Intervento presentato a: 15th International Conference on the Structure of Non-Crystalline Materials, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Detail

  • Abou El Kheir, O., Bonati, L., Parrinello, M., Bernasconi, M. (2024). Unravelling the crystallization kinetics of the Ge2Sb2Te5 phase change compound with a
    machine-learned interatomic potential. Intervento presentato a: 13th International Symposium on Crystallization in Glasses and
    Liquids 2024, Orléans, France.
     Detail

  • Abou El Kheir, O., Bernasconi, M. (2024). Mid-gap States and drift in GST
    alloys from DFT simulations. Intervento presentato a: ST ePCM collaboration Workshop 3rd edition, Milano.
     Detail

  • Bernasconi, M. (2024). A machine-learning interatomic potential for the Ge2Sb2Te5 phase change compound. Intervento presentato a: Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA. Detail

  • Bernasconi, M. (2024). A machine-learning interatomic potential for the Ge2Sb2Te5 phase change compound. Intervento presentato a: Glass and Optical Division, Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, Las Vegas, USA. Detail

Research projects

NEuroMorPHic devices bASed on chalcogenIde heteroStructures (EMPHASIS)
Year: 2021
Call: Decreto Direttoriale n.1628 del 16-10-2020 - Bando PRIN 2020
Grantors: M.I.U.R. - MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE, DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA
BEFOREHAND - Boosting Performance of Phase Change Devices by hetero- and nano-structure material design
Year: 2018
Call: 2017-066 - h2020-ict-2018-2020
Grantors: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
7th International Workshop on Characterization and Modeling of Memory Devices (IWCM)
Year: 2016
Call: Bando FIRB accordi di programma 2010
Grantors: MICRON TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC
SYNAPSE-SYnthesis and functionality of chalcogenide NAnostructures for PhaSE change memories
Year: 2012
Call: 2011-085 - FP7-NMP-2012-SMALL-6 - NMP.2012.2.2-2, FP7-NMP-2012-SMALL-6 NMP.2012.2.2-2
Grantors: UNIONE EUROPEA
MOCVD growth and study of chalcogenide nanowires for phase change devices
Year: 2009
Call: Bando Materiali Avanzati

Awards

Awards

  • Ovshinsky Lecturship Award, European Phase Change and Ovonics Symposium (E/PCOS), 2018

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program chair - 12th International Workshop on Characterization and Modeling of Memory Devices(Italia), 2023
  • Presidente/Chairman del comitato organizzativo - 9th International workshop on characterization and modeling of memory devices(Italia), 2018
  • Program chair - 7th International Workshop on Characterization and Modeling of Memory Devices, Milano (I)., 2016
  • Program chair - "LOW-DIMENSIONAL DYNAMICAL PHENOMENA AND SIMULATIONS", 42nd Workshop of the International School of Solid State Physics, Ettore Majorana Center, Erice (I)., 2007