Prof. Aldo Di Carlo

Aldo Di Carlo earned his degree in Physics (with honors) from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany.
In 1996, he became a researcher at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata," and in 2001 he was appointed Associate Professor. Since December 2012, he has held the position of Full Professor in the same department, and from 2011 to 2019 he served as Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Electronic Engineering.
As of September 2024, he is Director of the Institute for the Structure of Matter (ISM) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and President of the CNR’s Rome 2 Territorial Research Area (ATdR-RM2)—positions he also held from January 1, 2021, to September 17, 2023.
From 2007 to 2019, he was Director of the Organic Solar Pole of the Lazio Region, focused on the fabrication of organic and hybrid organic/inorganic solar cells.
From 2009 to 2015, he served as Chair of the Scientific Council of the Dyepower Consortium for the development of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs).
He is a member of the Steering Committee of the European Energy Research Alliance – Joint Program on Photovoltaics (EERA-JPPV).
His research focuses on the study and fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices, their characterization, and optimization. In recent years, his work has particularly emphasized the development of third-generation photovoltaic cells—primarily DSSCs and perovskite solar cells—and the scaling-up of such technologies for industrial applications.
Another significant aspect of his research involves the simulation of micro- and nanoelectronic devices. The development of nonequilibrium theory applied to the microscopic description of charge transport in nanostructured systems, along with its multiscale implementation, has been the subject of numerous invited seminars at international conferences and universities worldwide.
He has served as:

• European Coordinator of:
  • H2020 CITYSOLAR project on transparent tandem perovskite/organic solar cells,
  • EU FP7 OPTHER project on THz amplifiers,
  • FP7 ULTRADSSC project on time-resolved characterization of DSSCs.
• Local Coordinator of 7 Horizon Europe projects, 8 EU-H2020 projects, 7 EU-FP7 projects, and 1 EU-FP6 project. Notably, he acted as Deputy Leader of the Energy Work Package (WP-ENERGY) within the Graphene Flagship initiative.
• Local Scientific Coordinator of numerous research projects, including PNRR Rome Technopole (CNR), Sistema Elettrico Research Project, Mission Innovation, PRIN, MADESS II, INFM-PRA, and the Finalized Project on Nanoelectronics (PF22).

Di Carlo is the author or co-author of more than 800 international scientific publications (h-index = 93, citations = 36,796), 12 international patents, several book chapters, and two textbooks in Italian: “Appunti di Optoelettronica: I materiali semiconduttori” and “Appunti di Optoelettronica: fibre ottiche e componenti a semiconduttore,” both published by Aracne Editrice.

In recognition of his research contributions, he has delivered more than 95 invited talks at international conferences.