Mariano Anderle

Curriculum (Italiano)

Mariano Anderle, Scientific Director of the International Union for Vacuum Science Techniques and Applications (IUVSTA), Fellow AVS 2003, Past President of the Italian Society for Science and Technology (AIV), since May 1^st, 2009 is Responsible of the Special Project “Promotion and internalization of the Trentino Research System” at the Department of Innovation, Research and ICT of the autonomous province of Trento, Italy.
He received his Doctor Degree (Laurea) in Physics from the University of Trento in 1980, and shortly thereafter he began his research career in surface and thin film science. He joined the Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica IRST (now Bruno Kessler Fondation -FBK) in 1984, a nonprofit research institute sponsored by the Autonomous Province of Trento, at which he has served, till April 2009, in a variety of research and research management roles.

May 2008, he has been indicated by the Italian Foreign Affairs Minister as Scientific Attachè at the Italian Embassy in Beijing- China.

Dr. Anderle spent a sabbatical year at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights NY during 1990-91, as well as shorter visiting scientist appointments at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1985, at IBM in 1992 and 1995, at CERN summers 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 and at University of Maryland summers 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

He has also been active in international professional circles, including serving as Councilor for Italy, Vice-chair of Applied Surface Science Division Committee, Chair of Congress Planning Committee, and Chair of the Biomaterials Interface Steering Committee of IUVSTA and organizer for numerous International surface analysis and engineering activities.

Referee of International, National and Regional industrial research projects, adjunct Professor at the University of Torino and Adjunct Faculty at the Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Maryland, he is author of more than 140 papers on international scientific journals and he holds 2 international patents and 2 IBM Invention Achievement Awards. His research includes surface analysis and engineering, semiconductor materials and processing, combinatorial materials science, biomaterials and biointerfaces.