Giuseppe B. Suffritti

Education Elementary School: Dalmine (BG), Italy High school, 1964-67 Istituto Leone XIII, Milan, Italy "Laurea" (Degree+Thesis) in Physics, about Solid State Physics Università degli studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, 1967-72 Thesis, Istitute of Physical Chemistry, Università degli studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, Calculation of thermal vibrations in molecular crystals, Supervisors: C. M. Gramaccioli, N. Terzi Personal Home co-ordinates: Address: Via Putranch, 6, I-07041 Alghero, Italy Phone: +39 (79) - 975117 Born in Genova (Italy), June 8, 1947: Citizen of Italy, EU Married Anna Frulio, 1979 Children Rosalba, born September 29, 1980 Academic Positions 1973 Associate, Istitute of Physical Chemistry directed by M. Simonetta, Università di Milano, Milan (Italy); 1974-75 Visiting researcher, CECAM ( European Center of Atomic and Molecular Calculations), Orsay, Paris (France); along with G. Ciccotti, W. Andreoni, A. Tenebaum, J.-P. Ryckaert; 1976-83 Lecturer of Physics for Chemistry students, Istitute of Physical Chemistry Università degli studi di Sassari, Sassari (Italy) ; 1976-79 Lecturer of Applied Physical Chemistry for Chemistry students, Istitute of Physical Chemistry, Università degli studi di Sassari; 1980-83 Lecturer of Theoretical Chemistry for Chemistry students, Istitute of Physical Chemistry, Università degli studi di Sassari; 1983-2000 Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry Università degli studi di Sassari; 2000-present Full Professor of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry Università degli studi di Sassari; Professional and AcademicSocieties American Physical Society (APS) International Zeolite Association (IZA). Società Italiana di Fisica (SFI). Società di Chimica Italiana (SCI). Associazione Italiana Zeoliti (AIZ) Research Interests 1970's: Lattice Dynamics of molecular crystals with rigid molecules, using the harmonic approximation. Optimization of intermolecular potentials. The a priori evaluation of vibrational rms amplitudes of atoms, of thermodynamic functions and of strucural parameters of molecular crystals. The development of a new method for the asymmetric Brillouin zone sampling. 1980's: Quantum chemistry calculations on transition metal complexes, in order to elucidate the catalytic action. Quantum chemistry studies on the solvolysis of small organic cations and on the solvation in water of small apolar molecules (nitrogen, oxygen). Monte Carlo simulation of the solvation in water of small apolar molecules (nitrogen, oxygen). 1980's-today : Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. Development of an intramolecular potential for the water molecule in view of MD simulation of water in porous aluminosilicates. Development of an intramolecular potential for water depending on the external electric field. Development of a harmonic potential for MD simulation of the vibrations of the zeolite crystals, in order to provide a "heat bath" for the molecules adsorbed in the micropores. Simulation of the diffusion of water, methane and ethane in different zeolites and its interpretation using statistical models. Optimization of a potential including electrically charged atoms for aluminosicates and aluminophosphates, and the MD study of the mobility of the ions in anhydrous zeolites, MD simulation of the mobility of water and hydrated ions and ion-exchange phenomena in zeolites. Development of coarse grained models for molecules adsorbed in porous materials to be used in specially designed kinetic Monte Carlo and Cellular Automata for computer simulations at mesoscopic (millisecond and micrometer) scale. 1990's: MD simulation of amorphous metal glasses. Publications The publications on scientific Journals, and refereed Book chapters are 115. Refeering Included in the referee list of Journal of Physical Chemistry and Journal of American Chemical Society from 1993, of Chemical Physics Letters from 2004 and of Langmuir from 2006. In 2011 awarded a “Certificate of Appreciation” of American Chemical Society Other Journals and associations: Molecular Physics, Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters, International Zeolite Association. EPSRC Grant ( Engineering and Physical Science Council), U.K. Included in the Permanent list of Referees MIUR-PRIN (Italian Education Ministry, National Research Programs) Acted as a referee for INTAS research projects (UE-NIS collaboration ) (2003-2007) U. E. evaluation expert for research projects in Nanotecnology field (June 2004). Evaluation expert for excellence research projects in Chemistry and Nanotechnology fields for the Russian Federation Education Ministry (2010 and 2011). Teaching Physics Lectures for chemical, environmental sciences and nursing students; Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Lectures for chemistry students; Informatics Lectures for students of several areas.