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Brown University

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5.04/23/2026

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Domenico Pacifici is an Associate Professor of Engineering and Associate Professor of Physics at Brown University. He joined the School of Engineering as an Assistant Professor in 2009, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2016, and has served as Director of the Brown Nanofabrication Central Facility since September 2016. Pacifici earned his Ph.D. in Physics (cum laude, 2004) from the University of Catania, Italy, with a dissertation on erbium-doped silicon nanoclusters for microphotonics, and his Laurea in Physics (summa cum laude, equivalent to M.Sc., 2000) from the same institution, focusing on interactions between silicon nanocrystals and erbium ions. He also received an M.A. in Engineering ad eundem from Brown University in 2017. His postdoctoral training included positions as Postdoctoral Scholar (2005-2007) and Senior Postdoctoral Scholar (2007-2009) in the Department of Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology, followed by a Research Fellow role at the University of Catania (2004-2005). Additionally, he holds appointments as CNST Visiting Fellow in the Nanofabrication Research Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and as Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park.