Massimo Nespolo

Distinguished Professor

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Adjunct lecturer, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Member of the Commission on Inorganic and Mineral Structures of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr-CIMS)
Interim co-chair of the Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography of the International Union of Crystallography ((IUCr-MaThCryst)
Consultant of the Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr-CCN)
IT technology for education (TICE) corresponding member of the Science and Technology Faculty, Université de Lorraine
Founding member of the General Interest Group No. 3 Education in Crystallography of the European Crystallographic Association
Co-author of the IUCr Online Dictionary of Crystallography

Short-Term Invited Fellow, High-Energy Accellerator Research Organization (Feb-March 2016, Feb-March 2017)
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Kyoto University (June-August 2015)
Visiting Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology (December 2014 - March 2015)
Visiting Professor, Kumamoto University (April 2012 - March 2013)
Visiting Professor, Tohoku University (June-July 2012)
Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of Science (April 2010- March 2011)

Editor-in-Chief, SpringerBriefs Series in Crystallography
Associate Editor of the European Journal of Mineralogy
Member of the IUCr/Oxford University Press (OUP) Book Series Selection Committee
Member of the Advisory Board, Crystal Research and Technology
Book review editor for the IUCr journals
Guest editor of the special issue on mathematical crystallography, Crystal Research and Technology Volume 55 No 5 (May 2020)
Co-guest editor of the Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie 230 special issue on mathematical crystallography (December 2015).
Co-guest editor of the Acta Crystallographica A70 special issue on mathematical crystallography (December 2014).
Guest editor of the Acta Crystallographica A62 special issue on mathematical crystallography (March 2006)

Chair of the Commission on Mathematical and Theoretical Crystallography of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr-MaThCryst) (2005-2014)
Member of the Executive Committee of the European Crystallographic Association (2006-2012)
Consultant of the Commission on Crystallography in Art and Cultural Heritage (IUCr-CrysAC) (2008-2011)
Secretary of the SIG (Special Interest Group) #5 (Mineral and Inorganic Crystallography) of the European Crystallographic Association (ECA) (1999-2011)
Head of the CRISP Group of the CRM2 laboratory (2009-2017)
Member of the Selection Committee of the twelfth Ewald Prize
Member of the selection committee, fourth PANalytical Award
Member of the selection committee, 2017 Patterson Award of the American Crystallographic Association
Member of the International Program committee of the XXIII Congress of the International Union of Crystallography (Montreal, August 2014)
Member of the International Advisory Board of the XXI Congress of the International Mineralogical Association (Johannesburg, August 2014)
Member of the Council of the Graduate School Molecular Chemistry and Physics

Plenary speaker at the χ-mag 2018, Nara, Japan (25 to 28 July 2018)
Keynote speaker at the 24th Congress & General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (21 to 28 August 2017)
Invited speaker at the 14th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA 2016), Hanoi, Vietnam, 4-7 December 2016, MS18.IN05
Invited speaker at the 2016 SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Philadelphia, USA, 8-12 May 2016
Invited speaker at the 28th European Crystallographic Meeting, Warwick, UK, 25-29 August 2013.
Invited speaker at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, 9-12 June 2013, Philadelphia (USA)

Tsukuba, 15-17 August 2014
Tsukuba, 9-13 March 2015
Osaka, 3-7 August 2015
Tsukuba, 7-11 March 2016
Tsukuba, 1-5 August 2016
Tsukuba, 6-10 March 2017
Tsukuba, 31 July - 4 August 2017
Tsukuba, 6-10 August, 2018
Tsukuba, 22-26 July, 2019 (English course), 29 July - 2 August, 2019 (Japanese course)
J-Physics summer school, Koyasan University, 5-9 August, 2019
Tsukuba, 13-17 September, 2021
Tsukuba, 22-26 August 2022
Tsukuba, 10-14 July 2023 (English version), 18-21 July 2023 (Advanced course), 24-28 July 2023 (Japanese version)