Presidente
Dr. GIOVANNI MONTANI
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Personal Data
| Office Address: | ENEA C.R. Frascati, UTFUS-MAG, |
| Via E. Fermi, 45 (00044) Frascati (Roma), |
| Italy |
Phone (office): +39 06 4991 4678
E-mail: giovanni.montani AT enea.it
Since March 2006, he has a
permanent position as Researcher at ENEA (Italian National Agency for New
Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), joining the
"Theoretical Group on Plasma
Physics" in the Research Center
of Frascati (Rome, Italy).
Since 2003, he is member of the faculty of the IRAP International PhD Graduate School and of the
ERASMUS program for the PhD in Relativistic Astrophysics.
Since 2000, he supervises a research group on Cosmology, Gravity and Multi-Dimensions (CGM Group)
within the Physics Department of "Sapienza" University of Rome of about 10
young researchers per year.
Since 2008, he constituted the international collaboration CGW (Cosmology, Gravity and Wave-
Phenomena) of experienced and young researchers addressing open problems in
Cosmology, Astrophysics and Plasma Physics.
Publications
He is author or co-author of nearly 180 articles on peer-reviewed international journals and conference
proceedings. He published 5 invited review articles, one monograph in a dedicated issue of International
Journal of Modern Physics A and one book
"Primordial cosmology" edited by World Scientific.
Present position
Investigating the problem of
the Angular Momentum Transport in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas.
Within the agreement between ENEA and “Sapienza” University of Rome,
he conjugates the research
on Plasma Physics with studies on the nature of the gravitational
field in cosmology, focusing on the Big
Bang morphology in Quantum Gravity. The scientific issues
of the last years deals with timely topics in
fundamental physics and in astrophysical plasma theory. Two specific and
original directions emerge:
the representation of the gravitational theory as kinematically isomorphic to an SU(2) gauge theory, and
the analysis of the accretion process around a compact magnetized object in the
frame of a local crystalline plasma structure.
Among ongoing international collaborations, he developed a joint research project on plasma
astrophysics with Prof. Bruno Coppi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Boston (USA)) regarding the relation of accreting matter flows in thin disks with the typical instabilities arising in laboratory plasmas,
like the so-called ballooning modes. The experience in primordial theoretical
Cosmology - over about 20 years - is summarized in a book entitled "Primordial
Cosmology" (World Scientific, March 2011, in press) describing the evolution of the early Universe from the Planck era to the formation of large-scale
structures in the framework of the Einstein theory of gravity.
Giovanni Montani
November 2012
