Cecilia Pennetta

Biography

Cecilia Pennetta graduated in Physics with the highest marks in 1979 at the University of Lecce. He has been a fellow for two years at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale di Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and a fellow from 1982 to 1985 at the International School of Advanced Studies   (SISSA) in Trieste, where he received the title of Magister philosophiae in Physics at that School. Since 1985, he has been a university researcher at the Department of Physics at the University of Lecce and since 2002 has been Associate Professor of Physics of Matter at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Salento. He is currently a member of the Department of Mathematics and Physics "Ennio De Giorgi" and is a member of the College of PhD students in Fundamental Ecology and Climate Change at the University of Salento. She has been the speaker of many first and second tier thesis and doctoral theses. He has participated in numerous Italian and European research projects,  being responsible for some of them. He has been the referee of international projects and many of the most prestigious international journals, and is a member of the editorial committee of the international magazine Fluctuation and Noise Letters . Summoning Speaker and Chairperson in many international conferences,Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Unsolved Problems on Noise and Fluctuations ( UPoN) and the International Advisory Committee of Int. Conf. On Noise and Fluctuations (ICNF), the oldest conference on the subject, which came to 2013 at the XXII edition . He was also co-chairman of UPoN05. He has been part of the University of Salento's Evaluation Team, and has served as vice-president. His research activity, of a theoretical and computational nature, covers various applications both in the field of matter physics and in the interdisciplinary field.  Specifically, his past research focused on solid state physics and in particular the study of crystalline semiconductor electronic properties and the spread of charged impurities in these materials. Since the mid-1990s, his research has been devoted mainly to the study of charge transport in disordered materials and to various topics related to the physics of complex systems and particularly of biological systems, addressing the following topics:   a) conduction and electrical noise in materials disordered, granular or nanostructured and in organic materials;  b) breakdown and degradation of electrical properties, such as electromagnetism, electric and dielectric breakdown; c) modeling the electrical response of macromolecules of biological interest and in particular study of G coupled receptors and their possible use in the realization of nanobiosensors; d) percolation patterns, fluctuations in systems far from equilibrium and non-Gaussian behavior; e) statistical analysis of time series and statistics of extreme events;   f) variability and complexity of heart rate fluctuations; g) modeling ecological dynamics.   He is altogether author or co-author of about 100 international publications.

Research Interest

(a) conduction and electrical noise in disordered, granular or nanostructured materials and in organic materials; b) breakdown and degradation of electrical properties, such as electromagnetism, electric and dielectric breakdown; c) modeling the electrical response of macromolecules of biological interest and in particular study of G coupled receptors and their possible use in the realization of nanobiosensors; d) percolation patterns, fluctuations in systems far from equilibrium and non-Gaussian behavior; e) statistical analysis of time series and statistics of extreme events; f) variability and complexity of heart rate fluctuations; (g)  Modeling of ecological dynamics, in particular research into early indicators of desertification.