Gianaurelio Cuniberti


Gianaurelio Cuniberti is an Italian scientist and professor at TU Dresden in Germany. Since 2007 he has been chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the TU Dresden.

Education

Professor Gianaurelio Cuniberti took his Diploma di Maturità in June 1989 at the Liceo Leonardo da Vinci in Genoa and studied Physics at the University of Genoa between 1989 and 1994 where he obtained his bachelors and masters in science. He received his PhD in 1997.

Academic career

In 1994 he was a visiting scientist at MIT and in the period between 1997 and 1998 was Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Genoa, Italy. He moved then to Germany where he spent the years between 1998 and 2002 as guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany. Between the years 2003 to 2008 he was Head of the Volkswagen Foundation independent research group “Molecular Computing”, Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Since October 2017 Cuniberti has been full professor at TU Dresden, Germany.
He is part of the Board of Trustees of the Society of Friends of the Staatskapelle Dresden, one of the oldest orchestras in the word still performing with a top 10 reputation.
He is member of the Board of Trustees of the Italien-Zentrum Dresden, a cultural platform for the exchange between Italy and Saxony. He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Germany.