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\centerline{\bf \huge \textsf{Curriculum  Vitae et Studiorum}}
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{\bf \Large \textsf{\underline{Francesco Piazza}}}
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$\bullet$ \textsf{{\bf \textsf{Born}}: .......................... 3$^{\rm rd}$ November  1970}	
	
$\bullet$ \textsf{{\bf \textsf{Nazionality}}:	................ italian}			 

$\bullet$ \textsf{{\bf \textsf{Civil status}}:  ................  celibate}				         

$\bullet$ \textsf{{\bf \textsf{Military service}}: ......... free}				 

$\bullet$ \textsf{{\bf \textsf{Permanent address}}: ... Via G.B. Sermei 9, 50014 Fiesole (FI)					
      Tel.	                 +39 (0)55 599624 -- mob. (GSM) +39 349 8522727} 

$\bullet$ \textsf{{\bf \textsf{Office}}: ........................ IPT--BSP, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, 
                                      Switzerland. Tel. +41-(0)21-6930513} 
				  
$\bullet$ {\bf \textsf{E\_mail}}: ........................ \texttt{piazza@fi.infn.it}

$\bullet$ {\bf \textsf{Webpage}}: .................... \texttt{http://wwwpeople.unil.ch/Francesco.Piazza/}

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\section*{\textsf{Present position}}

$\bullet$ From  1$^{\rm st}$ January 2003. Assistant Post--Doctoral in the Theoretical Biophysics 
Laboratory,  Faculty of Sciences, \'Ecole Polytechnique  F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne (EPFL), 
Lausanne, Switzerland.


\section*{\textsf{Past work experiences}}

$\bullet$ February 2001 -- February  2003: INFM post--doc fellowship, 
FORUM project {\em Study of statistical and dynamical models of biomolecules}.
Supervisor: prof. Roberto Livi, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit\`a di Firenze.

\section*{\textsf{Education}}

$\bullet$ October 1997 -- October 2000. Heriot--Watt University, Edinburgh (UK).
Ph.D. degree in Physics. 

$\bullet$ 1989 -- 1996: Universit\`a di Firenze. Physics Degree, final mark: 106/110. 
Laurea thesis' title: {\em High--T$_c$ superconductors: study of electronic coupling
through anharmonic vibrational modes}.

$\bullet$ 1984 -- 1989: Classical Lyceum ``Dante Alighieri'', Florence. 
Diploma,  mark: 60/60.

\section*{\textsf{Teaching experiences}}

$\bullet$ September 2002 -- February 2003: 
          Lecturer at the University of Florence, Engineering faculty.
          {\em General Physics I}, first semester.

$\bullet$ July 2002: Invited lecture on  ``Statistical analysis of DNA sequences:
a review", International  IP--Socrates summer school 2002, Villa Agape, 
Florence. Lecture available on--line at:

\texttt{http://www.complex.unifi.it/WebComplex/bin/view/Time\_series\_analysis/TeachingMaterials}

$\bullet$ October 1997 -- October 1999: Heriot-Watt University, Physics Department. 
Tutorships for the following courses: \textsf{Experimental Physics I e II} (term 1--3 1997) and 
\textsf{General Physics I} (term 1--3 1998).

$\bullet$ 1994 -- 1997: Mathematics and Science teacher at the intermediate school 
{\em G. Barberi},  Borgo Pinti, Florence. 

$\bullet$ 1995 -- 1997: Language support teacher for foreign children at the  
intermediate school {\em G. Verdi}, Via Monteverdi, Florence. 

\section*{\textsf{Other work experiences}}

$\bullet$ November 1999 -- March 2001: Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici di Firenze, 
Galleria Palatina di Palazzo Pitti, Firenze. Assistent technical manager  (part--time).

$\bullet$ May -- December 1996: Coordinator of the on--the--road social workers at the 
young--people centre {\em Rione S. Croce} (now young--people centre {\em JAVA}), Florence.

$\bullet$ July 1995: Animator at the local children summer centre, Impruneta (Florence).

$\bullet$ 1989 -- 2001: Private tuitions to high--school and university students for the
following subjects: 
Latin, Ancient greek, Mathematics and Physics.

\section*{\textsf{Grants}}

$\bullet$ October 1997 -- October 2000: Three--year scholarship from Heriot--Watt University, 
Edinburgh, towards the coverage of both living expenses and  Ph.D. tuition fees. 


\section*{\textsf{Informatic knowledge}}

$\bullet$ Programming languages: FORTRAN, BASIC.

$\bullet$ Operating systems: Dos, Windows 98,  Macintosh 9.0, VMS, UNIX (Linux).

$\bullet$ Word processors: Microsoft Word, \LaTeX.

$\bullet$ Spreadsheets: MS Excel, Jandel Sigma Plot, Kaleidagraph, Origin.

$\bullet$ Electronic editing systems: Aldus PageMaker, MS PowerPoint.

$\bullet$ Mathematics programs: Matlab, Maple V, Mathematica.

$\bullet$ Good knowledge of the programs: Adobe Illustrator, IDL, XMGR, GnuPlot. 


\section*{\textsf{Languages}}

$\bullet$ Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English.

$\bullet$ Elementary knowledge of written and spoken French.


\section*{\textsf{Schools and Workshop}}

$\bullet$ 17 -- 27 October 1999. Stage at ISI, Villa Gualino, Torino. Workshop 
``Complexity and Chaos'' 1999.

$\bullet$ 29 August -- 10 September 1999: 1999  {\em EPSRC Theory of condensed matter Summer 
school}, 
Coleg Harlech, North Wales. School's subject: ``High--T$_c$ superconductivity''.


$\bullet$ 5 -- 9 January 1998: 1998 {\em Winter School on Superconductivity}, 
Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Superconductivity (IRC), Cambridge. 
School's subject: ``Technological applications of high--T$_c$ superconductivity.''.

$\bullet$ April 1996: crash course on ``Communication skills'', organised by Punto Giovani 
di Firenze  for the social workers of {\em Rione S. Croce} young--people centre. 


\section*{\textsf{Talks and posters at international conferences}}

$\bullet$ 17 -- 21 June 2002, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, 
talk at International Workshop {\em Localisation and Energy transfer in Nonlinear
Systems}. Talk's title
``Cooling non--linear lattices till energy localisation''

$\bullet$ 23 -- 27 March 2002, Arcachon (FR), poster at International workshop 
{\em DNA in chromatin,
at the frontiers of physics and biology}. Poster's title 
``Study of low--complexity DNA sequences in Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes'' 

$\bullet$ 13 -- 17 June 2001. Talk at Eu--Us International Workshop on Discrete 
Breathers/Intrinsic Localized Vibrations, 
FORTH, Heraklion, Crete. Talk's title 
``Slow energy relaxation and Localisation in 1D and 2D lattices''


\section*{\textsf{Scientific publications}}

\begin{enumerate}

\item L. Cianchi, P. Moretti and F. Piazza,
     {\em Superconducting cuprates: a simple model of coupling between
      electronic holes through apical ions}, 
     {\em Phys. Lett. A}. {\bf 246}, 451 (1998).
    
\item  F. Piazza, S. Lepri and S. Livi, 
     {\em Slow energy relaxation and localization in 1D lattices}, 
     {\em J. Phys. A}. {\bf 34}, 9803 (2001).
    
\item  F. Piazza {\em et al.}, 
    {\em Study of atomic motions in $\mathrm{EuBa_2Cu_3O_{7-\delta}}$ by 
     M\"ossbauer and EXAFS spectroscopies.}, 
    {\em J. Superc.}. {\bf 14}, 675 (2001).
    
\item F. Piazza, {\em Nonlinear Lattice Dynamics of High--$T_c$
                 Superconductors}, 
    {\em Ph.D. thesis}, Heriot--Watt University, Edinburgh (2001).
    
\item  F. Piazza, S. Lepri and R. Livi, 
    {\em Cooling nonlinear lattices toward localisation}, invited paper, 
    {\em Chaos} -- Focus Issue {\em Nonlinear localised modes;
     Fundamental Concepts and Applications}, {\bf 13} (2), (2003).

\item  F. Piazza, S. Lepri and R. Livi, {\em Thermal activation of breathers 
       in 2D nonlinear lattices}, in 
       {\em Localisation and Energy transfer in Nonlinear Systems}, Ed. L. V/'azquez, 
        M. P. Zorzano and R. MacKay,  World Scientific, Singapore (2003).  

\item F. Piazza, {\em A quantum perturbative pair distribution for
                 determining interatomic potentials from EXAFS}, 
		 {\em J. Phys. C}, {\bf 14} (45), 11623 (2002).		    


     
\end{enumerate}


\section*{\textsf{Other interests}}


$\bullet$ Dogged music and piano student.

$\bullet$ Drawing and painting. 


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