Dario Narducci

Dario Narducci graduated in Chemistry in 1984 at the University of Milano, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1988. From 1988 to 1990 he was Post Doctoral Fellow at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY (USA), becoming Assistant Professor at the University of Milan in 1990. In 1997 he moved to the Department of Materials Science, University of Milano Bicocca, where he became Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry in 2000.
Research interests of Dario Narducci have been always focused on the physical chemistry of solids and materials. More specifically, after an intense activity in the area of disordered materials (amorphous solids and polycrystalline silicon), his research focus moved toward surface physical chemistry, where he has been active both on fundamental issues (physical chemistry of oxides and their surfaces, chemical reconstruction of single-crystal Si surfaces, analysis the mechanism of self-assembling of organic molecules onto silicon, modelling of gas-surface supramolecular interactions) and on more applicative and technological issues (chemical sensors, analysis and development of chemical etch processes for microelectronics, CVD techniques).
Dario Narducci has been the Italian representative in the Erasmus European Program for Materials Science from 1993 to 1995, lecturing at the specialization European courses held in Bath (UK) and Tubingen (Germany) and organizing and directing the 7th European Erasmus Intensive Course in Materials Science held in Milan in 1996. He was also in charge of two National Research Projects (PNR), of three Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN 1999, 2001 and 2003), of an EC project of four Fondazione Cariplo projects on gas detection system, and of several SME-funded research projects.
Author of more than 70 scientific publications, he also wrote two books on Nanotechnologies and eight patents. Dario Narducci has also a relevant record of outreach activities, including several popularisation papers appeared on national newspapers and magazines, and a number of participations over the last years in scientific programs broadcasted by national public and private radios and televisions.