Prof. Claudio Nicolini
Member of the National Science and Technology Council, Rome
Director, Institute of Biophysics, University of Genoa, Italy
Prof. Claudio Nicolini
Member of the National Science and Technology Council, Rome
Director, Institute of Biophysics, University of Genoa, Italy
CLAUDIO NICOLINI, born in Udine on 4 April 1942, after taking his
Doctoral degree in Nuclear Physics at the University of Padua, in 1967 became
first Assistant Professor and subsequently Researcher-Collaborator at the
National Institute of Nuclear Physics. From 1968, except for a short period
(1970-1971), in which he was Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of
Bari, Claudio Nicolini has been living for 16 years in the U.S.A. (the
citizenship of which he still has) first as nuclear physicist at Brown
University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brookhaven National
Laboratory. Then, starting from 1972 he moved to Medicine at the Temple
University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, where after a period of
intensive biomedical training and research he became a tenure-track Associate
Professor of Pathology (1974) and, subsequently, Full Professor and Director of
the Division of Biophysics (January 1976). At present, alternating stages in
USA (i.e., Stanford University, Nevada University), Japan (i.e., Erato Project
-J.R.D.C. at Tsukuba) and Russia (i.e., Russian Academy of Sciences), he
directs the Institute of Biophysics of University of Genoa, where he has been
called in 1984 for "chiara fama", as "Eminent Scientist", to the Chair of
Biophysics; he is a member of the National Science and Technology Council upon
appointment by the Italian Parlament since 1990. Over the past several years
his main scientific activities concerned molecular and cellular biophysics,
bioelectronics and cancer research, receiving for this reason several awards
(e.g. American Cancer Society) and international prizes (San Valentino d'Oro);
editor of several international journals, among which "Cell Biophysics"
(editor-in-chief till 1991). Consultant of several International Organizations
in USA and world-wide (NATO Scientific Affair Division, National Institute of
Health, National Science Foundation, Frontiers Research (Japan), Russian
Academy of Sciences, American Cancer Society); Director of twelve NATO-Advanced
Study Institutes, Director from 1978 up to now of the International School of
Biostructures of the Cultural Center "Ettore Majorana"; President of Scientific
Committees of leading Industrial and International Research organizations
(CIREF, Technobiochip); member of several national and international academies;
President of Polo Nazionale Bioelettronica - Scientific-Technological Park of
Elba.
From 1984 to 1987, he has been Advisor for Science and Technology of
the Italian Prime Minister Craxi, and from 1988 to 1995 he was Vice President
of the National Research Program on Bioelectronics (President is the Minister
in office).
Author of more than 284 publications in international scientific journals
reviewed by the "Citation Index", of more than 15 WPI patents, of 21 books,
among which university text books, such as "Biophysics and Cancer" (Plenum,
1986), and "Biofisica e Tecnologie Biomediche" (Zanichelli, 1992) and
monographs, such as "Bioscience at the Physical Science Frontier. A Nobel
Symposium" (Human Press, 1986), "Il Cancro" (UTET, 1991), "Molecular
Manifacturing" (Plenum Press,1996) and "Molecular Bioelectronics" (World
Publishing Co, 1996).