Angelo Bassi

Group Leader
Department of Physics - Miramare, University of Trieste
INFN - Trieste
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213
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+39 0402 240 315
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+39 040224 601

Born in Udine (Italy) in 1973. He was awarded the degree in Physics (Summa cum laude) at the University of Trieste in 1998 and the Ph.D. in Physics in 2001. Subsequently he was Post Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Scientist at the ICTP in Trieste (2002/04) and Marie-Curie Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximillian-University in Munich (2004/06). In December 2006 he became staff member of the Department of Physics of the University of Trieste, where now he is associate professor.

He published 70+ articles in international Journals. He is referee for the APS and IOP journals, and for the American NSF. He is co-organizer of 17 international conferences, workshops, schools on Quantum Mechanics and related topics. He was invited speaker at 40+ international conferences and schools. He was Chair of the COST Action “Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics”, and currently is Chair of the COST Action “Quantum Technologies in Space”.

Full CV: 

A pdf version of the CV with full list of publications can be downloaded from here.

Education
2006-present: Staff member, Department of Physics, University of Trieste.
2004-2006: Marie-Curie Fellow at the Mathematics Institute of the L.M.U., Munich (Germany)
2001-2004: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste.
1999-2001: Ph.D. in Physics, University of Trieste.
1998: Master degree in Physics, University of Trieste (110/110 cum laude).

Publications
Author of 60+ publications on international journals, proceedings excluded (see annex I). Among them: 1 Science, 1 Nat. Physics, 5 PRL, 3 Nat. Sci. Rept., 3 EPL, 1 Rev. Mod. Phys., 1 Phys. Rept.

Referee activity
Review Panel Member for COST (nomination by MIUR  (Italian Minister for University and Research). Referee for the APS and IOP journals. Referee for MIUR for the American NSF.

Teaching activity
Academic years 2003/2004, 2006/2007 and 2008/2009: "Stochastic Processes and Stochastic Differential Equations" for Ph.D. students at the Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Trieste.
Academic years 2007/08 - 2010/11: "General Relativity" for graduate students at the Department of Physics, University of Trieste.
Academic year 2011/12: "New Frontiers in Quantum Mechanics" for graduate students at the Department of Physics, University of Trieste.
Academic year 2012/13 – 2016/17: "Advanced Quantum Mechanics" for graduate students at the Department of Physics, University of Trieste.
Academic year 2013/14 – 2016/17: “Quantum Field Theory 1”, for graduate students at the Department of Physics, University of Trieste.

Management activity 
PI and Chair of the COST Action MP1006 “Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics”: about 60 units from 23 European countries, plus USA, South Africa, India, Mexico (2011-15).
PI and Chair of the COST Action CA15220: “Quantum Technologies in Space”: 60 units from 24 European countries (2016-20).
PI of the MarieCurie Intra-European Fellowship MEIF-CT-2003-500543 (2004-05),
PI of the MarieCurie European Reintegration Grant MERG-CT-2006-044941 (2006).
Unit leader of FP7-ICT-2011-FET Open “NANOQUESTFIT – Nanoparticles in Quantum Experiments: Exploring the Scientific Basis of Future Information Technologies” (2013-15)
Unit leader of the “John F. Templeton Foundation” grant (ID 39530) ‘Experimental and theoretical 
exploration of the fundamental limits of quantum mechanics’ (2013–17).
Unit Leader of a “PRIN 2008” project, funded by MIUR – Italy (2010-2012).
Coordinator of the Trieste Unit of the INFN (National Institute for Nuclear Physics) “Iniziativa Speifica” BELL (2007 - today).
Coordinator of the Master Degree in Theoretical Physics at the University of Trieste.
Guest Editor of a Special Issue: The Quantum Universe, Journ. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40, n. 12 (2007). Contributors include: S.L. Adler, B. d’Espagnat, F. De Martini, L. Diosi, D. Duerr, S. Goldstein, J. Froehlich, G.C. Ghirardi, M. Rasetti, J. Hartle, L. Hardy, A.J. Leggett, T. Regge, R.D. Sorkin, A.M. Steane.

Invited talks
Seminars at: Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, USA, 24.05.07 and 22.05.2009), MIT (Cambridge, USA, 17.05.10), Harvard (Cambridge, USA, 02.12.10 and 03.12.15), S. Weinberg's Theory Group (Austin, USA, 13.12.2011), Imperial College (London, UK, 15.11.12), Weizmann Institute (07.01.2013), Rutgers University (New Brunswick, USA, 19.05.09 and 29.11.12), Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Canada, 07.06.07), L.M.U. (Monaco, Germany, 06.05.09 and 17.03.10), U.C. Davis (California, 06.12.12), U. Calgary (28.11.13), Columbia University (02.12.13), University of Southern California (06.12.2014), NYU (12.05.2016), as well as most relevant research institutes in Italy (and elsewhere in the world).

Prizes & other
The essay: “Information and the foundations of quantum theory”, by A. Bassi, T.P. Singh, H. Ulbricht [arXiv:1310.8600] won the 2nd Prize in the FQXi essay contest 2013.
The essay: “Is quantum linear superposition an exact principle of nature?”, by A. Bassi, T.P. Singh, H. Ulbricht [arXiv:1212.0135] won the 4th Prize in the FQXi essay contest 2012.
Council member of the International Society for Relativistic Quantum Information (2014-16).

Interviews on Nature Journals
http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-physics-what-is-really-real-1.17585
http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-technology-probes-ultimate-limits-of-vision-1.17731
http://www.nature.com/news/how-gravity-kills-schr%C3%B6dinger-s-cat-1.17773

Interviews on other Journals
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130820-200-collapse-has-quantum-theorys-greatest-mystery-been-solved/
http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/a-theory-of-consciousness-can-help-build-a-theory-of-everything

Radio Interviews
Radioattività (Italy) - 10th February 2011
ORF – Online Radio Fernsehen (Austria) - 9th May 2017 – h19:05

Citations on books
The paper "Dynamical Reduction Models", has been cited in in 61 books (source: Google Books - 2016). In particular, it has been cited by:
S.L. Adler, "Quantum Theory as an Emergent Phenomenon", Cambridge University Press (2004).
Steven Weinberg, "Lectures on Quantum Mechanics" Cambridge University Press (2015).
't Hooft "The Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", Springer (2016).