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http://www.ictp.it — home > organization > director's office > Claudio Tuniz
| Name: | Claudio Tuniz |
| Title: | Assistant Director |
| Office: | LB room 274B |
| Phone: | +39 040 2240 232 |
| E-mail: | ctuniz@ictp.it |
Education:
Laurea in Physics, University of Trieste, Italy, 1974
Research interests:
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and its applications in environmental science, biomedicine and other disciplines utilising long-lived radionuclides as chronometers and tracers. Tuniz has co-authored one book, several book chapters and over 90 scientific papers, mostly on the above subject.
Biography:
Tuniz earned his doctorate in Physics at the University of Trieste, Italy, where he carried out research in nuclear physics from 1974 to 1980. He was post doctoral fellow at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, from 1981 to 1983, becoming involved in pioneering applications of cosmogenic radionuclides to understand the cosmic record in meteorites and lunar rocks.
In the following years, he promoted AMS methods in Italy and co-ordinated a programme funded by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics.
Tuniz moved to Australia in 1991, following an invitation by the Australian government to lead the AMS group at the Lucas Heights Research Laboratories in Sydney. The world class AMS centre developed under his leadership carried out research programmes in global climate change, Antarctic research, environmental monitoring for nuclear safeguards, biomedicine and archaeology.
Later he become Director of the Physics Division at Lucas Heights (1996-1999) and coordinated a broad spectrum of inter-disciplinary research based on the use of ions, neutrons and synchrotron radiation. Tuniz was counsellor for science policy matters at the Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations Organisations in Vienna between 1999 and 2004.
He is Special Assistant to the ICTP Director since June 2004. He has intention to promote activities in Applied Physics.
Collaborations:
Tuniz served as Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Australian Program on Synchrotron Radiation Research, Chairman of the Neutron Scattering Committee for the Australian Replacement Reactor, Co-Chairman of the Australasian Archaeometry Conference, Co-Chairman of the International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, member of the Asian Committee for Future Accelerators, member of the International Committee for Radionuclide Metrology and member of the Executive Committee of the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering. He is Professor (adjunct) at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
He is fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Italian Physical Society, the Institute of Physics (UK) and the Italian Association of Archaeometry.