Giuseppe POLITI

Present Position: Associate Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy, Catania University

Scientific field: Fis01 – Experimental Physics

Educational History and Employment

• 01/11-present       Associate Professor at Department of Physics and Astronomy, Catania University
• 04/00-12/10         Researcher at the Department of Physics and Astronomy,Catania University
• 05/99-03/00         Research Grant at Department of Physics and Astronomy, Catania University
• 05/97-04/99         Post-Doc Grant on Nuclear Physics at INFN Section in Catania
• 03/96-04/97         Post-Doc Position at GANIL laboratory, Caen, France
• 1992-1995           Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in Physics - Catania University
• 1987-1992           Laurea cum laude - Catania University

Selected Educational Academic - Related Public Service Positions

• Deputy Director of Scuola di Specializzazione in Fisica Sanitaria dell’Università di Catania, 06/2016 - present
• Coordinator of User Committee of INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud - Catania  02/2017 - 12/2020
• Local Coordinator of INFN experiment CHIRONE for INFN Sezione di Catania 2020 - present
• Local Coordinator of INFN experiment NEWCHIM INFN Sezione di Catania 2018 - 2020
• Member of the Director Executive Board of Dipartimento di Fisica ed Atronomia di Catania, 2004 -2010

Teaching Activities

• 1999-2001      General Physics (24h)
• 2001-2004      General Physics (48h)
• 2004-2009      General Physics (48h) - Nuclear Physcis and Application to Cultural Heritage (32h)
• 2009-2010      General Physics (48h)
• 2010-2011      General Physics (48h) - Introduction to Quantum Physics (24h)
• 2011-2015      General Physics (48h) - Nuclear and Particle Physics Laboratory (72 h) - Radionuclide Production for medical application (16h)  
• 2016-present  General Physics (66h) - Nuclear and Particle Physcics Laboratory (72 h) - Radionuclide Production for medical application (16h) -

Grant Income

• 2022-2025 PNRR PE20 Changes - Responsable for UNICT in Spoke5 - 760 k€
• 2022-2025 PNRR Samothrace - Participant
• 2020-2023 PRIN MIUR 2020 - Principal Investigator and local Coordinator for UNICT and INFN-CT - 345 k€
• 2011-2013  PRIN MIUR 2009 - Principal Investigator - 268 k€
• 2002-2004  PRIN MIUR 2002 - Participant  

Research Activity

• Experimental study of nuclear reactions at lower and intermediate energies.
• Complete and incomplete fusion phenomenology.
• Reaction mechanisms in Fermi energy region – Multifragmentation.
• Equation of state of symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter.
• Isospin effects on reaction mechanisms.
• Dynamical and statistical fission.
• Applications to the field of Cultural Heritage of ion beams analysis, Xray and colorimetry.

Professor G. Politi is co-author of more then 300 scientific publication.

Complete list can be found in "Catalogo IRIS-UniCT: Giuseppe POLITI"

(last update septembre 2023)

• Studio delle reazioni nucleare a energie basse ed intermedie.  
• Fenomenologia delle reazioni di fusione completa e incompleta. 
• Meccanismi di reazione nella regione di Fermi - Multiframmentazione. 
• Equazione di stato della materia nculeare simmetrica e asimmetrica. 
• Effetti di Isospin nei meccanismi di reazione.
• Fissione dinamica e statistica.
• Applicazioni della Fisica ai Beni Culturali: Termo Luminescenza, Analisi con Fasci Ionici, Raggi X e Colorimetria. 

Responsabile Locale Esperimento INFN Gruppo III - CHIRONE presso la Sezione di Catania

Vice Presidente della Scuola di Specializzazione in Fisica Medica dell'Università di Catania

Delegato alla Sicurezza del Direttore del Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia

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