The Council of the Department of Physics of the University of Trento has elected its new director: Giulio Monaco 
Professor Monaco will take office in the fall and will lead the department until 2021, when he will have the opportunity to run again for the post.
Giulio Monaco, former deputy dean and professor of experimental physics, takes over from Lorenzo Pavesi who, after two mandates, had to step down.
Giulio Monaco was born in 1967 and earned his doctoral degree in physics from the University of L’Aquila in 1997. In 1998 he became a researcher at the National Institute of Material Physics (INFM). From 1999 to 2012 he worked at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, where he designed, built and directed an X-ray inelastic scattering study. He returned to Italy in 2013 as full professor.
He currently leads the Laboratory of structure and dynamics of complex systems at the Department of Physics of the University of Trento. His research work is focused on the design and construction of x-ray high resolution spectrometers that he uses to investigate, among other things, the nuclear dynamics of liquids, glasses and soft matter at microscopic scale. He has been a visiting scientist at Stanford University since 2017, where he explores the structure and dynamics of disordered systems through free electron laser experiments, like the LCLS source.