Marco RUGGIERI
Master Degree in Physics, score 110/110 cum laude on July 2001 and PhD in Physics on March 2005 at Bari University with a thesis on color superconductivity. From 2005 to 2009 he was a postdoc at Bari University. From 2009 to 2011 he was a postdoc at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan. From 2011 to 2015 he was postdoc at Catania University. From 2015 to 2017 he was postdoc at University of the Chinese Academy of Science, Pechino, Cina. From 2017 to 2022 he was full professor at School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Cina. Currently he is associate professor at Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “E. Majorana” in Catania University.
He thought Classical Electrodynamics and Quantum Field Theory for several years in Lanzhou University, and gave lectures on the phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and heavy ion collisions. He attended numerous international conferences on theoretical high energy physics and QCD, and visited many international institutes for giving seminars. He was principal investigator for three research grants, including one prestigious founded by the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) named "Mapping the QCD phase diagram by high energy nuclear collisions" in 2018 - 2022. He was supervisor of several undergraduate, master and PhD students. He is internationally known for his works on the phase transitions in QCD at finite density and/or finite temperature, as well as in presence of external fields, for his works on the initial conditions of relativistic nuclear collisions and more recently for his works on heavy quarks in the early stages of high energy nuclear collisions, as well as of stochastic processes with memory.
Last update: March 08th 2023
Nome: RUGGIERI, Marco
Luogo e data di nascita: Castellana Grotte (BA), Marzo 20, 1977
Cittadinanza: Italiana
Email: marco.ruggieri@dfa.unict.it, marco.ruggieri@unict.it
Skype: marco.ruggieri.ufs
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Riconoscimenti accademici
Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (National scientific abilitation) Scientific sector: 02A2-Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions
Validity: January 8 2014 – January 8 2023 Title: Associate Professor
CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative
Grant number 2015PM008 University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
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Produzione scientifica e citazioni
For details on my publications please refer to the publications list. Updated on October 10, 2022.
• Total number of papers (from INSPIRE-HEP): 112
• Total number of citations (from INSPIRE-HEP): 3147
• Very well-known papers (100 to 249 citations): 7
• Well-known papers (50 to 99 citations): 10
• Known papers (10 to 49 citations): 44
• hHEP−index: 31
• Research Gate Score: 37.14
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Studenti and tesi assegnate
Zhang Bonan, Aspects of the Chiral Phase Transition, PhD thesis, graduated on 27 November 2020.
Liu Jun Hong, Study of the early stage of high energy nuclear collisions by the classical approach, PhD thesis, graduated on 25 May 2021.
Jia Moran, Topological fluctuations and chiral anomaly photons in the early stage of heavy ion collisions, Postdoctoral dissertation, graduated on 25 May 2021.
Lin Feng Yu, TOV equation for neutron stars with quark matter core, bachelor thesis, graduated on 24 May 2021.
Li Daize, Study of the finite size effects on the phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics, bachelor thesis, graduated on 29 May 2020.
Wan Shensong, How quarks affect the cooling of compact stars, bachelor thesis, graduated on 15 May 2019.
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Research grants
National Science Foundation of China, grant number 11805087. Project title: Mapping Quantum Chromodynamics by Nuclear Collisions at High and Moderate Energies.
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, grant number 862946. Project title: Gluon fields in proton-proton collisions.
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Impieghi precedenti
July 2017 – September 2022 Professor, School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
January 2016 – June 2017 Postdoctoral researcher,
Awarded by the CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative,
Grant number 2015PM008 University of Chinese Academy of Science,
Beijing, China.
November 2014 – November 2015 ERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Project number: 259684, Project acronim: QGPDyn, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania,
Catania, Italy.
October 2011 – November 2014 FIRB Postdoctoral Fellow, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania,
Catania, Italy.
September 2009 – September 2011 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University,
Kyoto, Japan.
June 2005 – June 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy.
March 2005 – June 2005 Postdoctoral Project collaborator, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy.
January 2003 – July 2003 Long term visitor, CERN Theoretical Division, CERN, Geneve, Switzerland.
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Studi
11 Marzo 2005, PhD in Theoretical Physics
Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy.
Thesis title: Aspects of Color Superconductivity
Thesis advisor: prof. Giuseppe Nardulli.
Abstract of PhD thesis
In this PhD thesis I summarize my work about Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at high density and low temperature. In these particular conditions of temperature and density deconfinement is expected to occur, and because of the attractive interaction among quarks in the antisymmetric color channel, normal Fermi spheres are expected to be replaced by a superconductive state of Cooper pairs. My work has focused on discovery and study of instabilities in superconducting quark matter, and on the study of inhomogeneous color superconductivity and its implications for the physics of compact stellar objects.
23 Luglio 2001, Master Degree in Physics, with score 110/110 cum laude.
Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy.
Thesis title: Effetti convettivi e diffusivi nelle microemulsioni (in Italian language).
Thesis advisor: prof. Giuseppe Gonnella.
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Insegnamenti
• Theoretical Electrodynamics for undergraduate students at Lanzhou University, 2019-present.
• Quantum Field Theory 1 and 2 for graduate and PhD students at Lanzhou University, 2018-present.
• English for Nuclear Physics for undergraduate students at Lanzhou Univerisity, 2017-present.
• Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics for graduate and PhD students at Lanzhou University, 2017-present.
• Teaching assistant for Meccanica Quantistica Avanzata (Advanced Quantum Mechanics for graduate students) at Università degli Studi di Catania, 2011-2015
• Teaching assistant for Fisica Teorica dello Stato Condensato (Theoretical Physics of Condensate States of Matter), at Università degli Studi di Bari, 2008-2009
• Teaching assistant for Istituzioni di Fisica Teorica (Quantum Mechanics for under graduate students), at Università degli Studi di Bari, 2008-2009
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Principali visite ad istituti stranieri
Here the main visits to foreign institutes are listed. The following list is not meant to be complete since only the main visits are considered. Moreover, participation to international conferences is not listed here.
• February 2018: Visit to Tours University, Tours, for scientific collaboration.
• February 2018: Visit to Institut de Physique Theorique, Saclay, for scientific collaboration.
• July 2015: Visit to Cracow INP for scientific collaboration.
• December 2013: Visit to Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics of Kyoto, Japan, for scientific collaboration.
• November 2013: Visit to Institute of High Energy Physics of Beijing, China, for scientific collaboration.
• February 2011: Visit to Laboratoire de Physique Theoretique et Matematique of Tours, France, for scientific collaboration.
• February 2011: Visit to Physics Department of Jywaskyla University, Finland, for scientific collaboration.
• November 2010: Invited talk at the conference The Many Faces of QCD, Gent, Belgium.
• March 2010: Lecturer at Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo (Japan).
• March 2006: talk “Chromomagnetic instability in high density QCD” at MIT, Cambridge (United States).
• February 2004: visit to Niels Bohr institute at Copenaghen for scientific collaboration.
• Numerous transfers to CERN in Geneve for scientific collaboration.
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Principali abilità di ricerca
• Implementation of Montecarlo techniques for simulations of physical phenomena.
• Lattice formulation of Quantum Chromodynamics.
• Use of functional integrals to formulate problems in QFT and in the theory of phase transitions.
• Calculations by means of effective models of Quantum Chromodynamics.
• Numerical techniques to describe early time dynamics of relativistic heavy ion collisions.
• Analytical and numerical non-perturbative techniques of quantum field theory.
• Differential geometry calculations applied to the theory of phase transitions.
• Analytical and numerical techniques for the study of vacuum stability and vacuum decay in QFT.
• Numerical techniques for the study of the equilibrium configurations of compact stars.
• Numerical implementation of cooling processes of neutron stars.
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Talks principali
October 2021, Heavy quarks in relativistic heavy ion collisions, talk given at INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania.
November 2020, The chiral medium of the early stage of relativistic heavy ion collisions, online talk given at the conference Hot Problems of Strong Interactions, hosted by Logunov Institute for High Energy Physics, Provtinov, Russia.
July 2020, Introduction to Glasma, online talk given at Goa University, Goa, India.
January 2020, Diffusion and energy loss of heavy quarks in heavy ion collisions, talk given at Bari University, Bari, Italy.
August 2019, Heavy Quarks in the Evolving Glasma, talk given at the Workshop on QCD Phase Transition and Relativistic Heavy-Ion Physics, Enshi, China.
June 2018, Probing the Evolving Glasma, talk given at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
July 2018, Charm quarks to probe Glasma in p-Pb collisions, talk given at the conference QCD@Work2018, Matera, Italy.
February 2018, Gluon fields in proton-proton collisions, talk given at Tours University, Tours, France.
July 2017, The photon spectrum in relativistic heavy ion collisions, talk given at Workshop on QCD Phase Transition and Relativistic Heavy-Ion Physics, Xi’an, China.
May 2017, Photons from the early stage of heavy ion collisions, talk given at Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.
November 2016, Early time dynamics of heavy ion collisions, talk given at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
October 2016, Early time dynamics of heavy ion collisions, talk given at IMP, Lanzhou, China.
September 2016, Photon production in the early stages of uRHICs, Hard Probes 2016, Wuhan, China.
September 2016, QCD chiral medium induced by electromagnetic fields, talk given at the Workshop on the frontiers of pairing correlation and related problems in nuclear many body systems, Huzhou, China.
June 2016, Chiral phase transition in electric and magnetic fields, QCD@work16, Martina Franca, Italy.
May 2016, Chiral phase transition in electric and magnetic fields, IWND 2016, Xing Xiang, China.
November 2015, Early time dynamics in relativistic heavy ion collisions, talk given in Bari University, Bari, Italy.
September 2015, Schwinger effect in uRHICs, Workshop on computational physics, Kyoto, Japan.
December 2014, Thermalization in uRHICs, Initial stages 2014, California, USA.
June 2014, Dynamics of Quark-Gluon Plasma, QCD@Work2014, Italy
June 2012, Yang-Mills Thermodynamics, QCD@Work2012, Italy
September 2011, Chiral Magnetic Effect, SMFT2011, Italy
March 2011, Axial Chemical Potential invited talk, 11th Workshop on Non-perturbative QCD, France.
November 2010, Strong interactions in magnetic fields, The Many Faces of QCD, Belgium.
June 2010, Strong interactions in magnetic fields, Bari University, Italy.
June 2010, Dressed Polyakov loop, QCD@Work2010, Martina Franca, Italy.
December 2009, QCD in strong magnetic fields, Bari University, Italy.
November 2009, SUSY and Q-balls, Tokyo University of Science, Japan.
October 2009, Quarkyonic matter, YITP talk, Kyoto, Japan.
April 2009, CEP in the QCD phase diagram, IFAE 2009, Bari, Italy.
February 2008, PNJL model and electrical neutrality, New Frontiers in QCD 2008, Kyoto, Japan.
March 2005, Chromomagnetic instability in high density QCD, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
June 2005, Smeared gap equations in crystalline Color superconductivity, QCD@work 2005, Conversano, Italy.
May 2005, Effective lagrangian description of the LOFF phase in condensed matter and QCD, Cortona, Italy.
June 2003, High density effective theory results for two and three flavor Color superconductivity, QCD@work 2003, Conversano, Italy.
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Dinamica degli stadi iniziali nelle collisioni relativistiche di ioni pesanti.
Diagramma di fase della Cromodinamica Quantistica: teoria e applicazioni alle collisioni nucleari e alle stelle compatte.
Quark pesanti nelle collisioni relativistiche di ioni pesanti.
Metodi geometrici per le transizioni di fase.
Interazione di assioni con materia di quark ad alta densità
Fotoni nelle collisioni nucleari ad alta energia.
Aspetti non perturbativi delle teorie dei campi.
Produzione di quark-gluon plasma nelle collisioni nucleari ad alta energia.Solitoni e stabilità del vuoto.
Guida alle tesi di laurea
E' possibile svolgere tesi, sia per lauree triennali che specialistiche, sulle seguenti tematiche:
- Teoria delle transizioni di fase in QCD ad alta temperatura e densità
- Campi gluonici negli stadi iniziali delle collisioni nucleari ultrarelativistihe (Glasma)
- Dinamica dei quark pesanti nelle collisioni relativistiche
- Processi stocastici con memoria
- Assioni in materia di quark a densità e temperatura finite
- Applicazioni astrofisiche di QCD a densità finita
- Produzione di fotoni negli stadi iniziali delle collisioni nucleari ultrarelativistiche