Curriculum vitæ et studiorum

Name
Lorenzo.

Surname
Iorio.

Born
8 December 1971, Bari (BA), Italy.

Marital status
Single, no children.

Military service
Accomplished in 1998.

Address
Viale Unità di Italia 68, 70125, Bari (BA), Italy.

Telephone
Mobile: +39 329 2399167.

E-mail
lorenzo.iorio@libero.it

Secondary education
Secondary school with emphasis on the humanities.

Foreign languages
English, French (comprehension of written scientific texts only).

Degree
Graduated in Physics summa cum laude at the University of Bari, July 1997. Certification (in Italian)

Title of the degree thesis
Asimmetrie CP nei mesoni B: determinazione dell'angolo α del triangolo di unitarietà (CP Asymmetries in B Mesons: Determination of the Angle α of the Unitarity Triangle).

Supervisors of the degree thesis
G. Nardulli and P. Colangelo.

Post-lauream education
Ph. D. in Physics at the University of Bari, February 2002. Certification (in Italian)

Title of the PhD thesis
Satellite Laser Ranging and General Relativity.

Supervisor of the PhD thesis
L. Guerriero.

Post-doc activity
  • Development of an user-friendly graphic interface for orbit determination softwares at the Matera Center of Space Geodesy “O. Colombo” of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) for FMR Consulting (2001-2002). Certification (in Italian)
  • Post-Doc 2002-2004 at Physics Department “Michelangelo Merlin” of Bari University under the supervision of L. Guerriero. Post-doc certification (in Italian)
  • Research grant 2006 at the Physics Department of Lecce University under the supervision of F. de Paolis. Contract
  • Scholarship Luigi Volta for the Study of Astronomy awarded on 6 November 2006 by the Centre for Scientific Culture Alessandro Volta. Grant certificate
  • Permanent position as Physics teacher (Italian secondary school) since 2007.
  • Research contract 2014-2015 at the CNR-Institute of inorganic methodologies and plasmas (IMIP) under the supervision of S. Longo. Contract

  • Research stages in foreign countries
    Six visits (2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009) at the Institut für Weltraumforschung of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Graz, Austria, on invitation by Dr. H.I.M. Lichtenegger to study foundations of relativistic theories, the gravitomagnetic clock effect and possible tests of post-Newtonian gravity.

    Invitations to national and international Call for Proposals and partecipation in international research groups
  • ESA proposal for the OPTIS mission.
  • Earth Explore Core Mission proposal.
  • Call for proposals for International Teams of the University of Bern, Switzerland. Letters from ISSI
  • ESA proposal for the Earth Observation Envelope Programme. Letter
  • Studies in Cosmology and Fundamental Physics for an ASI proposal.
  • Proposals GG (Galileo Galilei) and EGE (Einstein Gravity Explorer) for the ESA programme Cosmic Vision 2015-2025.
  • Partecipation in the Pulsar Working Group of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Team

  • Conferences organization
  • Workshop Phenomenology of General Relativity in Astronomical and Astrophysical Scenarios at the IC-MSQUARE International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Physical Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, September 1-5, 2013. Certification

  • Editorship of Special Issues in international peer-reviewed journals
  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue Advances in Gravitational Research in the international peer-reviewed journal Galaxies, published by MDPI.
  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue 100 Years of Chronogeometrodynamics: the Status of the Einstein's Theory of Gravitation in Its Centennial Year in the international peer-reviewed journal Universe, published by MDPI.
  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue Progress in Cosmology in the Centenary of the 1917 Einstein paper in the international peer-reviewed journal Universe, published by MDPI.
  • Guest Editor of the Research Topic From Comets to Pluto and Beyond: Kuiper Belt Objects and Investigations in the international peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, published by Frontiers.

  • Membership of editorial boards
  • Associate Editor of the Editorial Board of the international peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, published by Frontiers.
  • Editor-in-Chief of the international peer-reviewed journal Universe, published by MDPI.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the international peer-reviewed journal Galaxies, published by MDPI.

  • National and international educational activity
  • Cycle of lectures on electromagnetism and optics at the Bari Engineering Faculty 2001. Certification (in Italian)
  • Cycle of lectures on mechanics and thermodynamics at the Bari Engineering Faculty 2003. Certification (in Italian)
  • Answer n. 146 for the page Domande e Risposte-Scienza per Tutti of LNF (INFN). Text (in Italian)
  • Invited associate professorship at the Bogotà University, Colombia. Letter
  • Invited Assistant Professorship at the Stonehill College, Boston. Letter
  • Invited Visiting Internship, Valladolid. Letter
  • Paper in European Journal of Physics.
  • Popular seminar “Come procede la scienza: teorie, esperimenti, osservazioni” given on 27 April 2007 at Istituto Tecnico Commerciale “Rocco Scotellaro”, Matera (Italy). Certification (in italian)
  • Requests to serve as supervisor by foreign students of international scientific institutions:
    1. PhD request by A. De Benedictis, S.F.U. Mathematics Department, Canada.
    2. PhD request by H. Behera, India.
    3. Summer Internship request by S.M. Ratnaker, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India.
    4. Short term project request by Arif Akhtar, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India.
    5. PhD request by Naadia Akhtar, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
    6. PhD request by Mahmoud Oshagh, Msc, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran.
    7. PhD request by Behrouz Khiali, Msc, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran.
    8. Summer Internship request by Vishal Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
    9. Post-Doc request by Reza Saffari, IASBS, Iran.
    10. Summer internship request by Vivek Raj, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
    11. Summer internship request by Mayur Maheshwari, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
    12. Post-Doc request by Han Wenbiao, China.
    13. Post-Doc request by Yu Dan, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronoautics, China.
    14. PhD request by R. Hashemi, Guilan University, Iran.
    15. Post-Doc request by Deyou Chen, China West Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan, China.
    16. Summer internship request by Suraj Pratap Singh, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India.
    17. Summer internship request by A.G. Fulkar, School of Mechanical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India.
    18. Research position request by Kacem Rochd, Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco.
    19. Post-Doc request by Binglong Lei, School of Material Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, China.
    20. Summer internship request by Vaibhav Patidar, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
    21. Winter internship request by Vishal Vasu, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Chennai, India.
    22. Winter internship project by Veenu Choudhary, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
    23. Summer research project by Akshansh Singh, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
    24. Summer internship request by Abhinav Kumar Jha, School of Mechanical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar, India.
    25. Summer internship request by Bhanavath Nagendra Babu Naik, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
    26. Summer internship request by Ganta Naveen, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar, India.
    27. Post-Doc request by Ping Ning, Laboratory of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
    28. Summer internship request by Aswin J., Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar, India.
    29. Internship in general relativity request by Paritosh Verma, University of Massachussetts Dartmouth.
    30. Summer internship request by Kumarmanas Nethil, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
    31. Research visit request by Bello Nakone, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
    32. PhD request for 2017 by Sudipta Hensh, IIT, Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India.
    33. Post-Doc request for 2017 by Xiao Feng, South China University of Technology, China.
    34. PhD request for 2017 by Behzad Tahmasebzadeh, IASBS, Iran.

    Invitations to submit papers to international peer-reviewed journals
  • Invitation to submit an article to Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (I). Invitation letter
  • Invitation to submit an article to International Journal of Modern Physics D. Invitation letter
  • Invitation to submit an article to Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (II). Invitation letter
  • Invitation to submit an article to Research Letters in Physics. Invitation letter
  • Invitation to submit an article to Scholarly Research Exchange. Invitation letter
  • Invitation to submit an article to Advances in Astronomy. Invitation letter
  • Invitation to submit a review article for Astrophysics and Space Science. Invitation letter
  • Invitation to submit an article to Papers in Physics. Invitation letter
  • Invitation to submit an article to Entropy. Invitation letter
  • Invitation to submit an article to Galaxies. Invitation letter

  • Prizes, awards and grants
  • Grant of the Young Researchers Project by the University of Bari, 2001. Certificate
  • Prize for Scientific Activity awarded on 17 September 2003 by the Italian Physical Society (SIF). Prize certificate
  • Scholarship Luigi Volta for the Study of Astronomy awarded on 6 November 2006 by the Centre for Scientific Culture Alessandro Volta. Grant certificate
  • New Astronomy Top Cited Author awarded on August 2010 by Elsevier for the paper entitled On the reliability of the so-far performed tests for measuring the Lense-Thirring effect with the LAGEOS satellites . This paper was published in New Astronomy, Volume 10, Issue 8, 2005. Award certificate
  • New Astronomy Top Cited Author awarded on August 2010 by Elsevier for the paper entitled What do the orbital motions of the outer planets of the Solar System tell us about the Pioneer anomaly?. This paper was co-authored with G. Giudice and published in New Astronomy, Volume 11, Issue 8, 2006. Award certificate
  • IFM Einstein-Galilei Award 2012 awarded on May 2012 by the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Advanced Mathematics (IFM) Einstein-Galilei. Award certificate, Video
  • Most Valued Reviewer award for the year 2014 by the Elsevier journal New Astronomy. Award certificate.
  • Distinguished Referee award for the year 2016 by the journal Europhysics Letters. Distinguished referees list.
  • Inclusion in the Top Italian Scientists (TIS) ranking by the VIA-Academy.

  • Other forms of distinction
  • Featuring of the paper CONSTRAINING THE PREFERRED-FRAME α1, α2 PARAMETERS FROM SOLAR SYSTEM PLANETARY PRECESSIONS in the Highlights 2014 of the journal International Journal of Modern Physics D.
  • Interview included in the ScienceOpen Author Interview Series by the open access publisher ScienceOpen.
  • Featuring of the paper Gravitomagnetism and the Earth-Mercury range on the Advances in Engineering portal.
  • Featuring of the paper The impact of the orbital decay of the LAGEOS satellites on the frame-dragging tests on the Advances in Engineering portal.
  • Inclusion of the paper The twin paradox and Mach’s principle in the classification Downloads of The European Physical Journal Plus. Ranking: 1. Classification
  • Inclusion of the paper On the anomalous secular increase of the eccentricity of the orbit of the Moon in the classification Article of the Day by the NASA Astrophysical Data System. External link
  • Inclusion of the paper Some Comments on a Recently Derived Approximated Solution of the Einstein Equations for a Spinning Body with Negligible Mass in the classification Most viewed articles. General Relativity and Gravitation 2004. Ranking: 1. Classification
  • Inclusion of the paper An Analytical Treatment of the Clock Paradox in the Framework of the Special and General Theories of Relativity in the classification Most viewed articles. Foundations of Physics Letters 2005. Ranking: 1. Classification
  • Inclusion of the paper On the reliability of the so-far performed tests for measuring the Lense–Thirring effect with the LAGEOS satellites in the classification Top 25 Hottest Articles, New Astronomy, July to September 2005. Ranking: 4. Classification
  • Inclusion of the paper The impact of the new Earth gravity models on the measurement of the Lense–Thirring effect with a new satellite in the classification Top 25 Hottest Articles, New Astronomy, July to September 2005. Ranking: 15. Classification
  • Inclusion of the paper What do the orbital motions of the outer planets of the Solar System tell us about the Pioneer anomaly? in the classification Top 25 Hottest Articles, New Astronomy, April to June 2006. Ranking: 6. Classification
  • Inclusion of the paper What do the orbital motions of the outer planets of the Solar System tell us about the Pioneer anomaly? in the classification Top 25 Hottest Articles, New Astronomy, July to September 2006. Ranking: 2. Classification
  • Inclusion of the paper What do the orbital motions of the outer planets of the Solar System tell us about the Pioneer anomaly? in the classification Top 25 Hottest Articles, New Astronomy, October to December 2006. Ranking: 14. Classification
  • Inclusion of the paper What do the orbital motions of the outer planets of the Solar System tell us about the Pioneer anomaly? in the classification Top 25 Hottest Articles, New Astronomy, January to March 2007. Ranking: 17. Classification
  • Inclusion of the paper Is it plausible to expect a close encounter of the Earth with a yet undiscovered astronomical object in the next few years? in the classification Most popular papers, Natural Science, Vol. 2, No. 11, 2010. Ranking: 2. Classification
  • Inclusion of the paper Solar System planetary orbital motions and f(R) theories of gravity in the TOPCITE+50 classification by SLAC-SPIRES HEP.
  • Inclusion of the paper Phenomenological Constraints on the Kehagias-Sfetsos Solution in the Hořava-Lifshitz Gravity from Solar System Orbital Motions in the TOPCITE+50 classification by SLAC-SPIRES HEP.
  • Inclusion of the paper Solar system constraints on f(T) gravity in the TOPCITE+50 classification by SLAC-SPIRES HEP.
  • Inclusion of the paper Phenomenology of the Lense-Thirring effect in the Solar System in the TOPCITE+50 classification by SLAC-SPIRES HEP.
  • Talk EGU05-A-00428 included among the Papers of Special Interest as identified by Session/Event Organizers at the EGU General Assembly 2005, 24-29 April 2005, Vienna, Austria.

  • International press releases and media coverage
  • Sky and Telescope about the Pioneer anomaly.
  • Discovery News (I) about the Pioneer anomaly.
  • Discovery News (II) about the Pioneer anomaly.
  • New Scientist about the Pioneer anomaly.
  • La Repubblica about the measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect with Mars Global Surveyor (in Italian).
  • Welt der Physik about the measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect with Mars Global Surveyor (in German).
  • Press review of the Bari University about the measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect with Mars Global Surveyor (in Italian).
  • New Scientist about the measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect with Mars Global Surveyor.
  • Digital Curation Centre about the measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect with Mars Global Surveyor.
  • Ingeniøren about the measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect with Mars Global Surveyor (in Danish).
  • NRC Handelsblad about the measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect with Mars Global Surveyor (in Dutch).
  • Physics World about modified models of gravity.
  • GEO Magazin about the multidimensional braneworld scenarios (in German).
  • Press release of GEO Magazin about the multidimensional braneworld scenarios (in German).
  • Physics World for Dark Matter in the Solar System.
  • Astrodicticum Simplex on Dark Matter in Solar System (in German).
  • MIT Technology Review on the effects of Dark Matter in the Solar System.
  • Scientific American for the ultimate fate of the Earth.
  • Astrodicticum Simplex for the alleged anomalous perihelion precession of Saturn (in German).
  • MIT Technology Review on the alleged anomalous perihelion precession of Saturn.
  • The Physics arXiv Blog on the alleged anomalous perihelion precession of Saturn.
  • Astrodicticum Simplex on the impossibility of an impact with the putative Planet X (in German).
  • Astrodicticum Simplex about the possible location of the putative Planet X (in German).
  • MIT Technology Review on the possible location of the putative Planet X.
  • Universe Today on the possible location of the putative Planet X.
  • Astrodicticum Simplex about the possible location of the putative Planet X (in German).
  • The Physics arXiv Blog about the possible location of the putative Planet X.
  • Phys.org about the possible location of the putative Planet X.
  • Grenz|Wissenschaft-Aktuell about the anomalous increase of the Lunar eccentricity (in German).
  • GEO about the anomalous increase of the Lunar eccentricity (in Finnish).
  • The Epoch Times about the anomalous increase of the Lunar eccentricity.
  • Beall's List of Predatory Open-Access Publishers about predatory open access publishers.
  • Neuro Skeptic about the pseudonyms used by I. Ciufolini on arXiv.
  • Retraction Watchabout the pseudonyms used by I. Ciufolini on arXiv.
  • Retraction Watch about the pseudonyms used by I. Ciufolini on arXiv.
  • Retraction Watch about the pseudonyms used by I. Ciufolini on arXiv.
  • COPE Digest about the pseudonyms used by I. Ciufolini on arXiv.

  • Membership of professional societies
  • International Astronomical Union (IAU). IAU personal page
  • Member of the Division A Fundamental Astronomy of IAU.
  • Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF). Membership card
  • Società Italiana di Meccanica Celeste e Astrodinamica (SIMCA). List of members
  • Italian committee for the Committe on Space Research (COSPAR). Official list of the italian associates to cospar
  • Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). Elected Fellow certificate
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Awarded Membership certificate
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Bari (2004). Certificate of affiliation
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Pisa (2008-2009). Certificate of affiliation

  • Refereeing activity for international peer-reviewed journals
  • General Relativity and Gravitation
  • Physics Letters A
  • Physics Letters B
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica
  • Foundations of Physics Letters
  • International Journal of Modern Physics D
  • Pramana
  • Physics Essays
  • Journal of Geodesy
  • Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions
  • Advances in Space Research
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Astronomical Journal
  • New Astronomy
  • Planetary and Space Science
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Astrophysics and Space Science
  • Canadian Journal of Physics
  • Europhysics Letters
  • Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
  • Physica Scripta
  • International Journal of Theoretical Physics
  • Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan
  • Acta Astronautica
  • Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A
  • Central European Journal of Physics
  • Carpatian Journal of Mathematics
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society A
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Earth, Moon and Planets
  • Turkish Journal of Physics
  • Annalen der Physik
  • The European Physical Journal Plus
  • Planetary Science
  • Physics Research International
  • ISRN Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • PLOS ONE
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
  • CEAS Space Journal
  • Physics International
  • The Open Astronomy Journal
  • Universe
  • Galaxies
  • Astronomische Nachrichten
  • Astroparticle Physics
  • Annals of Physics
  • Journal of Taibah University for Science
  • Gravitation and Cosmology
  • Earth Science Research
  • Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems
  • Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
  • International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics
  • Advances in High Energy Physics
  • Shock and Vibration

  • Refereeing activity for international scientific institutions
  • Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC). Letter
  • Czech Science Foundation (GA CR) 2004. Letter
  • Czech Science Foundation (GA CR) 2008. Letter
  • European Space Agency (ESA) for the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program. Letter
  • Invitation on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to nominate a candidate for the Crafoord Prize 2006, the most prestigious prize in the field of geoscience. Letter
  • Invitation on behalf of the European Physical Society (EPS) to nominate candidates for the High Energy and Particle Physics (HEPP) Prizes 2011. Letter
  • National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation (NCSTE), Ministry of Education and Science, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, 2013. Letter
  • National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation (NCSTE), Ministry of Education and Science, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, 2014. Letter
  • National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation (NCSTE), Ministry of Education and Science, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, 2015. Letter
  • National Center for Science and Technology Evaluation (NCSTE), Ministry of Education and Science, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, 2016. Letter
  • National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa, for the Blue Skies Research Programme. Letter
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the NESSF 16 Fellowship Program. Letter
  • The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for the Open Programme for Earth and Life Sciences. Letter
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for the Mathematics, Natural sciences and Engineering (division II).

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