scientist Theoretical physicist author
He obtained his undergraduate degree in Physics summa cum laude from the University of Trieste (Italy) in 1991 and did his Doctor of Philosophy studies at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) in 1993–1997, after one year of mandatory military service.
He has been Visiting Scientist at International Business Machines Corporation T.J. Watson Research Center and Research Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University before joining the Physics Department of Virginia Technical in 2000 as Assistant Professor. Di Ventra"s research interests are in the theory of electronic and transport properties of nanoscale systems, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, deoxyribonucleic acid sequencing/polymer dynamics in nanopores, and memory effects in nanostructures for applications in unconventional computing and biophysics. He has been invited to deliver more than 230 talks worldwide on these topics (including 7 plenary/keynote presentations, 7 talks at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society, 5 at the Materials Research Society, 2 at the American Chemical Society, and 1 at the International Society for Optical Engineering).
He is fellow of the Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society.
He has published more than 170 papers in refereed journals (13 of these are listed as Inter-Services Intelligence Essential Science Indicators highly cited papers of the period 2003–2013), co-edited the textbook Introduction to Nanoscale Science and Technology (Springer-Verlag, 2004) for undergraduate students, and he is single author of the graduate-level textbook Electrical Transport in Nanoscale Systems (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
