Carlo Mariani has been Full Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Roma La Sapienza since 2001. Carlo Mariani graduated from the Rome University (1979), then became a post-doc researcher at the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG) in Berlin (1980-1982), researcher of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) at Frascati (1983), permanent staff researcher at the Physics Department in Modena (1984-1988), invited associate professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris, July-August 1989), and associate professor of General Physics in Modena (1988-2001). Web site: https://sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/nano-surface-physics/home?authuser=0 https://scholar.google.it/citations?hl=it&user=46mTptkAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate