Romano Rocco

Biography

The professor. Rocco Romano was born in San Sebastiano al Vesuvio (Na) in 1966. In 1995 he graduated, in cum laude, in Physics at the University of Naples Federico II, discussing a thesis titled Spectral sensitivity of an interferometer utilizing light squeezed vacuum. In 1999 he received a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Naples, discussing a thesis titled Characterization of tumor cells resistant to drugs and not using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance High Resolution. He has been the winner of several scholarships and research grants in the field of data analysis, quantification algorithms applied to medical physics and environmental monitoring. He is currently Associate Professor (FIS / 07) at the Department of Pharmacy of the University of Salerno. In 2006 he received a specialization in Physics at the University of Naples. Since 2009 he is a III Qualified Expert for Ionizing Radiation. Since 2006, prof. Romano is associated with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and collaborates with the VIRGO project for the detection of gravitational waves, in the field of environmental monitoring, in data analysis and the development of inertial sensors. From 2015 he is the director of the 2nd level Management of Radiopharmaceuticals held at the Department of Pharmacy of the University of Salerno The main research lines of prof. Romano are related to the development of techniques for statistical analysis of data, quantification algorithms and Monte Carlo methods for NMR spectroscopy; - Development of sensors for environmental and biomedical applications (accelerometers, seismometers, interferometric sensors, environmental monitoring sensors, adaptive optic systems); ionizing radiation applications and not for biomedical, industrial and environmental applications. In 2016 he is one of the signatories of the article on the discovery of gravitational waves (Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger, Physical Review Letters, 11 February 2016, DOI: 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.116.061102), observed for the first time on 14 September 2015, and in May 2016, together with LIGO and VIRGO collaborator researchers, the Special Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics Awarded For Detection of Gravitational Waves, 100 Years After Albert Einstein Predicted Their Existence (https: // breakthroughprize.org/News/32). For the same discovery, first observation of the gravitational waves of September 14, 2015, Barry Barish, Kip S. Thorne and Rainer Weiss, promoters and founders of the LIGO (Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) instrument, were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics 2017.

Research Interest

Development of techniques for statistical analysis of data, quantification algorithms and Monte Carlo methods for NMR spectroscopy; - Development of sensors for environmental and biomedical applications (accelerometers, seismometers, interferometric sensors, environmental monitoring sensors, adaptive optic systems); ionizing radiation applications and not for biomedical, industrial and environmental applications.