We are pleased to announce that the

2011 ICTP Prize

is awarded to

Ado Jorio

Departamento de Fisica

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Belo Horizonte, Brasil

in honour of

Praveen Chaudhari

Ado Jorio de Vasconcelos is recognized for his Raman spectroscopy work on single carbon nanotubes that has clarified their electronic and vibrational properties.

Jorio's main research interest is in the physics of nano-materials. He developed experimental techniques to probe the geometrical and electronic properties of single carbon nano-tubes. This work had a major impact in the field of photo-physics in nano-structures, Raman spectroscopy of low dimensional dimensional systems and nano-metrology. He is an associate professor in the Department of Physics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, having earned his PhD at the same university in 1999. He worked for two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA.

Praveen Chaudhari (1937-2010) has made fundamental contributions to condensed matter physics and material science. He has worked on the structure and properties of amorphous solids, mechanical properties of thin films, defects in solids, quantum transport in disordered systems and superconductivity. One of his main achievements is the discovery and development of amorphous magnetic materials, that are the basis of erasable, read-write, optical storage technology. Professor Chaudhari had strong ties with the ICTP.  He served as the Chairman of the Scientific Council from 1998 to 2002.

The 2011 ICTP Prize Committee

P.Creminelli

L.Göttsche

F.Kucharski

M.Marsili (Chairman)

30 March 2012