• Laurea in Fisica (2000) Università degli Studi di Milano
• Ph.D. Physics (2007) Penn State University

• Professional Training:
  • 2001-2007 Research Assistant at Penn State University, University Park, PA.
  • Since 2004 Referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B
  • 2007-2008 Postdoctoral Scholar at Penn State University, University Park, PA.
  • 2008-2009 CNLS Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM.
  • 2009 Director Funded Fellow, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM.

Research Interests:

• "But we do not repeat a beginning by reducing it to something past and now known, which need merely to be imitated; no, the beginning must begun again, more radically, with all the strangeness, the darkness, insecurity that attend a true beginning." Martin Heidegger (1933)

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Cristiano Nisoli et al. "Artificial Spin Ice as an Interacting, Externally Driven Granular Material: Effective Temperature." Submitted to Nature (2010) .
2. Cristiano Nisoli, Douglas Abraham, Turab Lookman, Avadh Saxena "Thermally Induced Local Failures in Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems: Collapse in Carbon Nanotubes, Necking in Nanowires, and Opening of Bubbles in DNA" Phys. Rev. Lett 104, 025503 (2010).
3. Cristiano Nisoli "Dynamical Phyllotaxis, Artificial Spin Ice, and Graphenic Bicontinuum" ISBN (978-3-639-19748-8) VDM Verlag (2009) .
4. Cristiano Nisoli "Polarons Induced Deformations in Carbon Nanotubes" Phys. Rev. B 80, 113406 (2009).
5. Cristiano Nisoli "Spiraling solitons: A continuum model for dynamical phyllotaxis of physical systems" Phys. Rev. E 80, 026110 (2009).
6. Cristiano Nisoli, Douglas Abraham, Turab Lookman, Avadh Saxena "Thermal Stability of Strained Nanowires" Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 245504 (2009).
7. Cristiano Nisoli, Nathaniel M. Gabor, Paul E. Lammert, J. D. Maynard, and Vincent H. Crespi "Static and Dynamical Phyllotaxis in a Magnetic Cactus" Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186103 (2009).
8. X. Ke, J. Li, C. Nisoli, P. E. Lammert, W. McConville, R. Wang, V. H. Crespi and P. Schiffer "Energy Minimization and ac Demagnetization in a Nanomagnet Array," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 037205 (2008).
9. C. Nisoli, P. E. Lammert, E. Mockensturm and V. H. Crespi "Carbon Nanostructures as an Electromechanical Bicontinuum" Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 045501 (2007).
10. C. Nisoli, R. Wang, W. McConville, P. E. Lammert, P. Schiffer and V. H. Crespi "Ground state lost but degeneracy found: the effective thermodynamics of artificial spin ice" Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 217203 (2007).
11. R. Wang, C. Nisoli, R. S. Freitas, J. Li, W. McConville, B. Cooley, M. S. Lund, N. Samarth, C. Leighton, V. H. Crespi and P. Schiffer "Artificial 'spin ice' in a geometrically frustrated lattice of nanoscale ferromagnetic islands" Nature 439, 303 - 306 (2006).
12. C. Nisoli, R. Wang, W. McConville, P. E. Lammert, P. Schiffer and V. H. Crespi "Chemically Doped Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Cylindrical Molecular Capacitors" Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 257403 (2003).
13. Full list of publications. .