Short CV
Alessio Zaccone studied at Politecnico di Torino and completed his MSc thesis at Technische Universität Berlin. After obtaining a PhD in chemical physics at ETH Zurich (Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences), he worked as a post-doctoral researcher and as an Oppenheimer Research Fellow in physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
Selected Awards
- 2014, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Professorship
- 2011, Oppenheimer Fellowship
- 2010, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
- 2010, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) post-doctoral Fellowship
- ETH Medal Award for outstanding PhD thesis
Research Interests
The research of Alessio Zaccone aims to understand the relationship between molecular interactions and the dynamical collective behavior of condensed matter systems, including macroscopic properties. Modern methods of theoretical physics are used, backed by computer simulations, to obtain insights into the mechanical response, the morphology and the phase transition behaviour of disordered atomic and molecular solids (e.g. metallic glasses, amorphous polymers etc.), colloidal suspensions and other complex fluids, and biomolecular self-assembling systems.
Selected Publications
- Zaccone, Alessio; Terentjev, Eugene M.: Disorder-Assisted Melting and the Glass Transition in Amorphous Solids. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (17), 2013.
- Di Michele, L.; Zaccone, A.; Eiser, E.: Analytical theory of polymer-network-mediated interaction between colloidal particles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (26), 2012, 10187-10192.
- Zaccone, Alessio; Crassous, Jerome J.; Béri, Benjamin; Ballauff, Matthias: Quantifying the Reversible Association of Thermosensitive Nanoparticles. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 (16), 2011.
- Zaccone, Alessio; Scossa-Romano, Enzo: Approximate analytical description of the nonaffine response of amorphous solids. Phys. Rev. B 83 (18), 2011.
Publications as TUM-IAS-Fellow
