Antonio Bianconi graduated in Physics in Rome in 1969. Has been working in the field of Synchrotron Radiation since 1971 at Frascati, Stanford, Orsay, Tsukuba and ESRF at Grenoble. His interest has been focused on the physics and chemistry of complex materials such as valence fluctuating systems and correlated metals and in these last years on high Tc superconductors. He is full professor in Physics since 1987 at University of l'Aquila and since 1993 at University of Rome "La Sapienza".

born in Rome 19-12-1944
1969 Doctor Degree University of Rome
Thesis on electronic transport in Liquid Helium film,
1969-1971 Post Doc at Frascati National Laboratory,
Research on plasmons and superconductors.
1971 Post Doc at Rome University
Research in Synchrotron radiation at the 1 Gev Frascati synchrotron
1972-1975 Assistant Professor at University of Camerino
Research in Synchrotron radiation at the 1 GeV Frascati Synchrotron::
EXAFS, soft X-ray absorption of amorphous solids
1976-1977 Research Associate at Stanford University
Research in Synchrotron radiation at SLAC -SSRL in the new fields of surface XANES and Optical EXAFS.
1978-1986 Associate professor at Roma University
Research in Synchrotron radiation at Adone Storage Ring in Frascati:
Biophysics of metalloproteins, valence fluctuation in electronically correlated solids
1987-1992 Full professor in Physics at University of L'Aquila
Research in Synchrotron radiation at LURE, Orsay France and Tsukuba, Japan. He has found that the doped holes are on oxygen orbitals in high Tc superconductors and study the structural dynamics of myoglobin.
1992 Visiting Professor at University of Paris Sud, Orsay, and Paris VI Paris
1993-today Full professor in Physics at University of Roma La Sapienza
He has introduced in 1990-1992 the "stripe scenario" in high Tc superconductors, by joint EXAFS and diffraction using X-ray synchrotron radiation.. He is now using advanced synchrotron radiation techniques to identify the striped phase in cuprate superconductors and manganites.

He is author of 190 papers in international Journals, he has been in the scientific committees of of many International conferences and in the scientific committee of ESRF.
He is active in synchrotron radiation research, and in high Tc superconductors, amorphous materials, surface physics, catalysts, transition metal oxides, valence fluctuation materials and metalloproteins.
He has been editor of several Books:

1) EXAFS and Near Edge Structure
edited by A. Bianconi, L. Incoccia, and S. Stipcich
Springer Series in Chemical Physics
Springer Verlag, Berlin 1983
2) Biophysics and Synchrotron Radiation
edited by A. Bianconi and A. Congiu Castellano
Springer Series in Biophysics vol. 2
Springer Verlag, Berlin 1987
3) High Tc Superconductors: Electronic Structure
edited by A. Bianconi & A. Marcelli
Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1989
4) Special Issue: Proceedings of the International Conference on Stripes , Lattice Instabilities and High Tc superconductivity
edited by A. Bianconi and N.L. Saini
J. Superconductivity Volume 10 Numbe 4 (1997).

Some recent publications on Stripes in HTCS.
1) N.L. Saini, A. Bianconi, A. Lanzara, J. Avila, M.C. Asenzio, S. Tajima, G.D. Gu, N. Koshizuka
Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3467 (1999)
2) A. Lanzara, N.L. Saini, M. Brunelli, F. Natali, A. Bianconi, P.G. Radaelli, S.-W. Cheong
Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 878 (1998)
3) N.L. Saini, J. Avila, A. Bianconi, A. Lanzara, M.C. Asenzio, S. Tajima, G.D. Gu, N. Koshizuka Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 3467 (1997)
4) A. Bianconi N. L Saini, A. Lanzara, M. Missori, T. Rossetti, H. Oyanagi, H. Yamaguchi, K. Oka, T. Ito Determination of the Local Lattice Distortions in the CuO2 Plane of La1.85Sr0.15CuO4
Phys. Rev. Lett 76, 3412-3415 (1996).
5) N. L. Saini, T. Rossetti, A. Lanzara, M. Missori, A. Perali H. Oyanagi, H. Yamaguchi, Y. Nishihara, D. H. Ha, A. Bianconi
Journal of Superconductivity 9 (1996) 343-348
6) A. Bianconi, M. Missori, N. L. Saini, H.Oyanagi, H. Yamaguchi, D.H. Ha, and Y. Nishiara
Journal of Superconductivity 8 (1995) 545-548

Chapter of Books:
1) Chapter: XANES spectroscopy
A. Bianconi
in X Ray Absorption: Principle, Applications
Techniques of EXAFS, SEXAFS and XANES
edited by R. Prinz and D. Koningsberger,
J. Wiley and Sons, New York 1988

2) Chapter XANES of Condensed Systems
A. Bianconi, J. Garcia, and M. Benfatto
in Synchrotron Radiation in Chemistry and Biology I
edited by E. Mandelkow
Topics in Current Chemistry 145, 29-67 (1988)
Spriger Verlag, Berlin 1988

3) Hemoglobins XAS Spectroscopy
S. Pin, B. Alpert, A. Congiu Castellano, S. Della Longa, and A. Bianconi
in Hemoglobins of the series Methods in Enzymology
Part C Biophysical Methods edited by J. Everse, Kim D. Vandegriff, R.M. Winslow
Academic Press, inc. San Diego California
1994 vol. 232 pag. 266-292

4) Chapter Surface XANES
A. Bianconi, A. Marcelli
in Synchrotron Radiation Research: Advances in Surface Science
edited by R. Z. Bachrach
Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, 1992

5) Surface X-ray absorption spectroscopy: surface EXAFS and surface XANES
A. Bianconi
Applications of Surface Science Vol. 6, 392 (1980)

6) XANES spectroscopy for local structure in complex systems
A. Bianconi
Springer Series in Chemical Physics Vol. 27,118 (1983)
(talk at the EXAFS and Near Edge Structure conference,
Frascati, 1982)

7) XANES: one electron multiple scattering resonances and
splitting of final state configurations at threshold
A. Bianconi
Springer Proc. in Phys. 2, 167 (1984)
(invited talk at the III EXAFS conference, Stanford 1984 )

8) One electron interpretation of XANES and the local structure
determination. The case of rare earth compounds
A. Bianconi, A. Marcelli, I. Davoli, S. Stizza
Proc. Leipzig X ray conference, Leipzig pag 152 (1985)
(Invited talk at the X-ray and inner shell photoionization conference)