Franco A. Gianturco#


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


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