Biography

I started my studies in physics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1987, and graduated in 1993 with a thesis on non-adiabatic electron-phonon superconductivity under the supervision of Luciano Pietronero. In 1994 I moved to the Max-Planck-Institute of Stuttgart in the group of Peter Fulde, where I obtained my Ph.D. degree in 1997 with a thesis on spin-orbit interation and non-equilibrium superconductivity. After a short post-doc in Rome, I was appointed as 1st assistant at the EPF-Lausanne in 1998 at the Laboratoire de Production Microtechnique (LPM). In 2005 I moved to the condensed matter department of the University of Geneva and in 2007 I spent one year at the Max-Planck Institute of Complex Systems in Dresden. Since 2008 I am scientific collaborator at the LPM-EPFL and R&T scientist at Sensile Medical AG.

main publications

B. Nigro, C. Grimaldi, P. Ryser, A. P. Chatterjee, P. van der Schoot
"Quasiuniversal Connectedness Percolation of Polydisperse Rod Systems"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 015701 (2013)

B. Nigro, C. Grimaldi, M.A. Miller, P. Ryser, T. Schilling
"Tunneling conductivity in composites of attractive colloids"
J. Chem Phys. 136, 164903 (2012)

G. Ambrosetti, C. Grimaldi, I. Balberg, T. Maeder, A. Danani, P. Ryser
"Solution of the tunneling-percolation problem in the nanocomposite regime"
Phys. Rev. B 81, 155434 (2010)

C. Grimaldi
"Large polaron formation induced by Rashba spin-orbit coupling"
Phys. Rev. B 81, 075306 (2010)

N. Johner, C. Grimaldi, I. Balber, and P. Ryser
"Transport exponent in a three-dimensional continuum tunneling-percolation model"
Phys. Rev. B 77, 174204 (2008)

C. Grimaldi
"Weak- and strong-coupling limits of the two-dimensional Fröhlich polaron with spin-orbit Rashba interaction"
Phys. Rev. B 77, 024306 (2008)

E. Cappelluti, C. Grimaldi, and F. Marsiglio
"Topological change of the Fermi surface in low density Rashba gases : application to superconductivity"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 167002 (2007)

C. Grimaldi and I. Balberg
"Tunneling and non-universality in continuum percolation systems"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 066602 (2006)

S. Vionnet-Menot, C. Grimaldi, T. Maeder, S. Strässler, and P. Ryser
"Tunneling-percolation origin of nonuniversality : theory and experiments"
Phys. Rev. B. 71, 064201 (2005)

E. Cappelluti, C. Grimaldi, L. Pietronero, and S. Strässler,
"Nonadiabatic channels in the superconducting pairing of fullerides"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4771 (2000)

C. Grimaldi and P. Fulde,
"Spin-orbit scattering effects on the phonon emission and absorption in superconducting tunneling junctions"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 2550 (1996)

C. Grimaldi, L. Pietronero and S. Strässler,
"Nonadiabatic superconductivity: electron-phonon interaction beyond Migdal's theorem"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1158 (1995)