Flash-it – Ultrafast Processes in Materials

2025-11-21

The APhRICA students grow

By Staff in NEWS, Seminars, Teaching Tag APhRICA, ITCP-EAIFR, MBPT, QM

Kigali (Rwanda), 2025, 1-19 December

The second cycle of the APhRICA Program has started. The lessons are held at the ICTP-EAIFR of the UR in Kigali.

The students and lectures answering the Call for the 2nd Cohort 2025-2027 and selected from the major Universities of Kenya and other African countries have joined the students of the fist year master course in Condensed Matter Physics of ICTP-EAIFR, attending in the same class to the Quantum Mechanics I course, held by Dr. Andrea Marini. All the students have been required to sign a letter of committment for the attendance and related exams of the two year training program.

Soon they will meet in Kigali their collegues from the 1st ICTP-EAIFR master course in Condensed Matter Physics supported by the APhRICA Program and of the 1st Cohort (2024-2026) attending to the Many Body Perturbation Theory I course held by Dr. Andrea Marini from 7th to 19th December.

The total number of the 2 classes supported by the APhRICA program amounts to 26 students.

APhRICA

APhRICA Launch

APhRICA training

APhRICA Cooperation Agreement

Physics Without Frontiers Workshop for APhRICA

APhRICA at PSI-K Conference

Call for the 2nd Cohort 2025-2027

Physics education in Kenya

2025-10-09

SELDoM 2025

By Staff in NEWS, Talks Tag atom, electron-phonon, electron(s), Excitonic, Insulator, Marini A., Marini Andrea, quantum, theoretical, Ultrafast

Napoli (Italy), 2025, 13-15 October

SELDoM 2025 (Surface and Electronic Properties of Low Dimensional Materials) is the workshop that will be held at the University of Naples Federico II on October 13th-15th 2025.

The aim of the workshop is to provide a highly-specialized forum to discuss the surface, electronic and optical properties of low dimensional materials. The participants will report on a wide variety of scientific and technical developments achieved in the characterization and applications of low dimensional materials.

Main topics

Low-dimensional materials (2D, 1D and 0D)
Hybrid dimensional materials
Van der Waals heterostructures, twistronics
Quantum confinement effects in low-dimensional materials
Electronic and optical properties
Surfaces and interfaces
Band structure engineering in low-dimensional systems
Charge transport in low-dimensional materials.

The conference Program includes the following talk:

13 October 2025 15:45-16:00 A. Marini (invited speaker): Phonon Dressed Excitonic Insulator

2025-09-25

2025 World’s Top 2% Scientists

By Staff in NEWS Tag bibliometrics, Ioannidis, Marini A., Marini Andrea, most influent, ranking, Stanford, World's Top 2% Scientist

As the previous editions, starting from 2020, also this year Elsevier has published the database of top-cited scientists that provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score).

Authors are classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields according to the standard Science-Metrix classification. Field- and subfield-specific percentiles are also provided for all scientists with at least 5 papers. Career-long data are updated to end-of-2024 and single recent year data pertain to citations received during calendar year 2024. The selection is based on the top 100,000 scientists by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above in the sub-field. This version (7) is based on the August 1, 2025 snapshot from Scopus, updated to end of citation year 2024.

The paper including the attached tables, published on the 19th September 2025 in the category “bibliometrics” (contributor: John P.A. Ioannidis, Stanford University), explains the calculation methodology, starting from the collected data and the selection of the indicators.