Dr.Paolo Mele Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum Personal Data Family name: Mele Given name: Paolo Birthday: October 4 th, 1971 Birthplace: Novi Ligure (AL), Italy Sex: Male Marital status: Married Citizenship: Italian Visa status: Japan permanent resident visa Address for Correspondence Associate professor Muroran Institute of Technology College of Design and Manufacturing Technology Research Center for Environmentally Friendly Materials Engineering 27-1 Mizumoto-cho, Muroran, Hokkaido, 050-8585, Japan Building X, room X204 Phone/Fax +81(0)143465646 E-Mail: pmele@mmm.muroran-it.ac.jp LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paolo-mele/52/215/993 Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=qwinmvmaaaaj 1
Education Ph.D in Chemical Sciences, 14 th February 2000 University of Genova, Italy Dissertation title: Study of growth mechanisms of monocrystalline systems and polycrystalline textured materials Advisors: Prof. G.A. Costa, Prof. G.L. Olcese. M.S. (Laurea) in Chemistry, 19 th June 1996 University of Genova, Italy Dissertation title: Study of the texture process of YBCO ceramic superconductor Advisor: Prof. G.A. Costa. Language skills Language Proficiency level Italian Mother tongue English TOEIC 890/1000 Japanese Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Level N3 Business Japanese Proficiency Test (BJT) 353/800 French Basic level Studied at Primary school Academic Professional Positions / Experiences Position held Period Institution Nature of work Associate 1 st April 2015 - College of Design and professor present Manufacturing Technology Muroran Institute of Tenure track Lecturer IST-LSI Researcher CREST-JST Ph D Fellow CREST-JST Ph D Fellow JSPS Ph.D Fellow Ph.D Research Fellow Doctoral Research Scholar 1 st March 2011-31 st March 2015 1 st April 2008 28 February 2011 16 th April 2007 31 st March 2008 16 th April 2004-15 th April 2007 16 th April 2003 15 th April 2004 19 th November 2000 15 th April 2003 14 th February 1997 13 rd February 2000 Technology, Japan Institute for Sustainable Sciences and, Hiroshima University, Japan Department of Materials Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Department of Materials Science Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan ISTEC SRL, Tokyo, Japan Department of Chemistry, Genova University, Italy Department of Chemistry, Genova University, Italy Research studies Research studies Research studies 2
Research experience: 19 years (including 3 years of doctoral course) Peer-reviewed papers in international journals: 82 Reviews in international journals: 2 Book Chapters: 3 Edited books: 1 Patents: 2 Awards: 2 Bibliometric Statistics Referred papers, reviews and book chapters 87 Citations* 873 Citations/year 54.76 Citations/paper 10.03 h-index* 14 h-10 index* 20 *these statistics were retrieved from public profile of Paolo Mele at Google Scholar web site (last check: 23 July 2015 Area of Research Interests Basic as well as Applied Research aspects Materials Science Ceramic Materials Superconductors Thermoelectrics Single Crystals Growth and Melt-Texture Growth Fabrication of oxide and metallic Thin Films Nano Science & Technology Vortex Physics and Pinning Heat transfer and phonon scattering 3
RESEARCH RESUME Working experience in superconductors, thermoelectrics and ceramics synthesis Growth of YBCO & REBCO superconducting single crystals using various fluxes by Slow Cooling Technique (Flux method) Growth of YBCO bulk materials by Melt Textured Growth (MTG) Technique Solid State Reaction Synthesis of Rutheno Cuprates Ru-1212 Synthesis of (RE I xre II 1-x) 2 O 3 mixed rare earth oxides by coprecipitation followed by Solid State Reaction. (RE I = Nd, Sm, RE II = Gd) Synthesis of YBCO and REBCO Thin Films by TFA-MOD technique (little experiences) Synthesis of YBCO and REBCO Thin Films (pure and doped) by PLD technique Synthesis of FeTeS Thin Films by PLD technique Synthesis of ZnO thermoelectric Thin Films by PLD technique Production of BaZrO 3 sintered crucibles by isostatic pressing followed by High-T solid state reaction Production of ZnO and Ca 3 Co 4 O 9 sintered thermoelectric elements by uniaxial pressing followed by High-T solid state reaction Production of ceramic elements by SPS (Spark Plasma Sintering) technique Working experience in characterization studies Surface analysis by Optical Microscope Surface analysis by AFM Structural analysis by X-ray diffraction Thermal analysis by Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA) and Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA) Superconductivity property by Four Probe Resistivity Technique Micro-Raman Analysis (little experiences) Working experience in sophisticated instruments Various High Temperature Furnaces (working up to 2000 C) Various Temperature Controllers Press (Hydrostatic and uniaxial) Cutting machines for sintered ceramics Polishing unit (Struers GmbH, Germany) 4
Ball Milling Leitz Optical Microscopy X-ray Diffractometer (Philips PW 1729, Rigaku Geigerflex, Bruker D8 Discovery) Thermal analyzer (NETZSCH STA 409C) Leica Scanning Electron Microscopy (Stereoscan 400) (little experiences) Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) (Shimadzu SPM-9500J3, Veeco CP-II) Photo Lithography, Chemical Etching and patterning PLD (Lambda Physik Compex 100/200/300 Laser and various vacuum chambers, including Neocera-type) SQUID measurements using Quantum Design MPMS System (little experiences) Physical property measurements using Quantum Design PPMS System at magnetic field up to 9 tesla ULVAC ZEM-1 and ULVAC Laser Flash TC-9000 for thermoelectric properties characterization Professional Activities Conference presentations Number of papers authored in proceedings of conference/schools/seminars: 189 (including posters and oral presentations) Oral presentations at international conferences: 54 (including 18 invited talks and 1 plenary keynote) Number of conferences/schools/ seminar attended: 104 Association memberships Cryogenic Association of Japan (CSJ) Japanese Applied Physical Society (JSAP) Material Research Society (MRS) The European Society for Applied Superconductivity (ESAS) Italian Association of Thermoelectricity (AIT) International Thermoelectric Society (ITS) Thermoelectric Society of Japan (TSJ) Contribution to education 1) Laboratory and research support for master students at Genoa University (Italy) Physical Chemistry related courses (2001-2002) 2) Guidance and support of research experiments for the department Master's degree program students at Kyoto University (2007) 3) Guidance and support of research experiments for the department Master's degree program students at Kyushu Institute of Technology (2008-2011) 4) 2 Invited lectures (in English) on materials science at the Kitakyushu Industrial Technical College, 2010~2011 5
5) 6 lectures (in English) on advanced materials at Hiroshima University, 2012~2014 6) Vice advisor of 2 Master course thesis in School of advanced sciences of mater, Hiroshima university, 2012-2015 7) 2 interships at Hiroshima University for master students and doctorate course students of Kyutech (2011 and 2013) Organization of conferences, seminar and symposia Organization of 11 symposia at international conferences Chair of 20 sessions (oxides, superconductors) at international conferences Organization of 5 domestic symposia Organization of 10 invited lectures (oxides, superconductors, thermoelectrics) External fundings fundings as principal investigator: 3 fundings as co-investigator: 2 6