Pimpinelli, Alberto

Alberto Pimpinelli has been Executive Director of the Rice Quantum Institute at Rice University, Houston, since September 2012, and is full Professor in the Physics Department at the Universite Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand, France (on leave) and Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. From 2008 to 2012 he was one of the Attaches for Science and Technology of the French Embassy in the US. Trained as a theoretical physicist, Alberto Pimpinelli obtained his PhD from the University of Parma (Italy) with a thesis dealing with statistical physics models of magnetism in i...