Prof. Giancarlo Ruocco is full professor of Condensed Matter Physics at Sapienza University of Rome since 2000.

His expertise is in the development of new instrumentations for the spectroscopic investigation of disordered solids, glasses and liquids.
More recently his interest moved towards the development on new imaging techniques for studying biosystems. In 2004, he founded and directed (until 2008) the Research Center "SOFT" of the INFM.

From Nov 2007 to Gen 2013 he has been the director of the Physics Department at Sapienza. From 2010 to 2014 he has been vice-rector for the politics of the research at “Sapienza” University of Rome. Since 2011 he is the director of the “Center for Life NanoScience (CLNS)”, a laboratory of the Italian Institute of Technolgy (IIT) where he is also the PI of the research line “Nanotechnology for Neuroscience".

His research line hosts about 30 PostDoc and 20 PhD from different disciplines (Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, Medical doctors, Physicists). In 2019 he has been awarded by a ERC Synergy grant for the study of protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease.