In the year of 2001, the 1st French-Russian Meeting on New trends in Solid State Physics in
Clermont-Ferrand, France which was sponsored by
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing started a series of annual meetings of world leading experts in
solid state physics. Further meetings have been held in
Clermont-Ferrand on a yearly basis from 2002 to 2006 to be followed by Meetings in
Rome in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 with constantly increasing number of participating scientists. Shortly after the 2010 annual meeting, a group of researchers working in different countries decided to create a private organization which main goal would be bringing together a strong international team providing a stimulating research environment and working atmosphere. Another mission of MIFP was reunification of the Russian scientists who spread all over the world after the fall of the
Soviet Union in 1991. With a support from Dr. Giuseppe Eramo,
University of Rome II Tor Vergata, MIFP was founded on 1 July 2010, and Prof.
Alexey Kavokin,
University of Southampton, was appointed its Scientific director. •
May 2011 NanoEuroMed Meeting gathers the leading scientists of the European Community in Multifunctional Nanomaterials. The Meeting is held under the auspice of MIFP. •
January 2012 The meeting between MIFP members and leading researchers from Brazil and Latin America in
Campinas,
São Paulo,
Brazil. •
April 2012 MIFP organizes the Vth
International School of Nanophotonics and Photovoltaics (ISNP-2012) on
Phuket,
Thailand. •
2020 By the year of 2020, MIFP unites 230 members.
List of Doctors Honoris Causa of the MIFP •
2014 Andrey Varlamov, •
2015 Zhanghai Chen and Mikhail Portnoi, •
2016 Sven Hoefling, •
2017 Galia Pozina, •
2018 Olivia Pulci, •
2019 Aldo Di Carlo and Alexander Buzdin. == Goals ==