Orari di ricevimento
Ogni giorno dalle 9.30 alle 19, previo appuntamento
Stanza 350, terzo piano, Edificio di Fisica Marconi
Curriculum
CAREER
April2023-today: Associate Professor in the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). Head of the Nano-spectroscopy group.
www.nanospectroscopylab.com
June 2021-March2023: Tenure-track Professor (RTD B) in the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), under the Rita Levi Montalcini grant. Head of a new group (with a new lab under construction). ERC starting grant awarded on the project NANOWHYR.
Habilitation as Associate Professor (in 02/B1) since 31-05-2021.
February 2019 – June 2021: Research scientist in the Physics Department of the University of Basel (Switzerland).
Leader of an independent team owing to the Ambizione grant.
August 2015 – January 2019: Post-doc researcher in the University of Basel in the “Nanophononics” group of Prof. I. Zardo.
November 2014 – June 2015: Post-doc researcher in Sapienza University in the group “Optical Spectroscopy of Nanostructured Materials Lab” hired under a EU Marie Curie-Intra European Fellowship (Project: SITELiTE).
EDUCATION
2014: PhD in Materials Science (curriculum: Physics of semiconductors) in the Physics Department of Sapienza. PhD defended on: 15-12-2014.
PhD advisors: Prof. A. Polimeni, Prof. M. Capizzi.
2012 – 2015: Short stays as visiting scientist at: the Photonics and Semiconductor Nanophysics Department, Technical University of Eindhoven (The Netherlands); the High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML), Nijmegen (The Netherlands); European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Florence (Italy).
2011: Master degree (110/110 cum laude) in Physics at Sapienza University.
2009: Bachelor degree (110/110 cum laude) in Physics at Sapienza University.
PUBLICATIONS RECORD
Google scholar ID: https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=xy81qTUAAAAJ&hl=it.
ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS
10 Invited talks at International Conferences and Workshops
9 Invited Colloquia in International Institutions
14 Contributed talks
GRANTS AND FUNDING
2023-2025: PRIN project GROUNDS. Funding: 190 k€.
2022 – 2027: ERC starting grant by European Research Council. Funding: 1.5 M€.
2021 – 2024: Rita Levi Montalcini grant, the competitive program by the Italian Ministry of University and Research to recruit the most brilliant researchers (across all disciplines) from abroad and become tenure-track Professors. Funding: 302 k€. Success rate: ⁓10%.
2019 – 2023: Ambizione grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation, allowing outstanding postdoc researchers to lead independent research in Swiss institutions. Funding: 904 k€. Success rate: ⁓10%.
2014 and 2012: “Start a research”, two grants by Sapienza for supporting the post-doc (2014, 2k€) and PhD (2012, 2k€) projects.
AWARDS
2021: “Laura Bassi” prize (by the Italian Society of Physics) as the best female physicist across all areas of Physics in 2021.
2018: Teaching prize (by the University of Basel) for being among the three best teaching assistants.
2016: “Emerging leaders” award (by the IOP, Institute of Physics) for scientists in the early years of their research careers identified as leaders who will shape the direction of research in the next 50 years.
2015: “Best PhD thesis 2015” prize (by Sapienza University) for the best five PhD thesis in 2015. The prize allowed the publication of a book based on the thesis by “Sapienza University” Editor.
2014: “Piero Brovetto” prize (by the Italian Society of Physics) for the outstanding research on the magneto-optical properties of nanostructures.
2012: Graduate Student award for the oral presentation in the EMRS Conference in Strasbourg.
ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
• September 2022: Co-organizer of the CLEO/Europe Focus Meeting (ECOC, European Conference on Optical Communication), Basel, Switzerland. Symposium “Novel Photonic Materials & Effects”
• May 2021: Co-organizer of the Compound Semiconductor Week Conference, Stockholm, Sweden. “Nanostructures, Novel Materials and Characterization” committee
• August 2017: Co-organizer of the Material Research Society-Japan IUMRS-ICAM Conference in Kyoto, Japan. Symposium C7 “Advances in Semiconductor Nanowires: Growth, Theory, Characterisation, Processing and Devices”.
INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES
• 2021 – present: Permanent committee member of the PhD program in “Matematical models for Engineering, Electromagnetism, and Nanoscience” in Sapienza University
• 2022: Committee member of the PhD final exam in Physics and Astronomy (University of Florence, Italy)
• 2022: Committee member for the “Extra EU mobility grant for graduate students” in the Faculty of Science in Sapienza University
• 2020 – present: External advisor and committee member for Bachelor, Master, and PhD thesis in Physics in Sapienza University and in the University of Basel
REVIEWING AND EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
• 2019 – present: Associate editor for Wiley-VCH “Encyclopaedia of Applied Physics” (EAP), section: Thermoelectrics.
• 2021 – present: Editorial board member of the journal “Nano Futures” (IOP), section: nano-optics and
nanophotonics.
• 2020: Panel member in the Swedish Research Council for research grants within the panel “NT-13, Electronics, electrical engineering, semiconductor physics and photonics”, Sweden.
• 2014 – present: Reviewer for 16 journals (Nano Lett., ACS Nano, ACS Photonics, Nanoscale Horiz., Opt. Lett, ACS Materials, etc.)
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
since 2022: Lecturer of the Bachelor course “Physics” for Biology in Sapienza University.
since 2024: co-lecturer for the Bachelor course "Laboratory of mechanics" for Physics in Sapienza.
2020 – present: Guest lecturer in the Master course “Condensed matter physics” and in the Master course “Surface physics and nanostructures”, both for Physics in Sapienza University.
2021: co-Lecturer of the Master course “Nanophononics” for Physics and Nanoscience in the University of Basel.
2020: co-Lecturer of the Bachelor course “Physics of condensed matter” for Physics and Nanoscience in Basel and of the course “Nanophononics”.
2016 – 2019: Teaching assistant in the University of Basel for the: Bachelor course “Physics of condensed matter” (also as coordinator) for Physics and Nanoscience, Master course “Nanophononics” for Physics and Nanoscience, Bachelor course “Physics II” (coordinator) for Physics, Chemistry, and Nanoscience, Bachelor course “Fundamentals of Electronics” for Physics and Nanoscience.
EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS
• Photoluminescence spectroscopy and absorption, also time-resolved, under intense magnetic fields, under near-field illumination, and in regime of single-photon emission.
• Raman spectroscopy, also time-resolved and coherent Anti-Stokes Raman.
• Nanoscale thermal transport and thermoelectric investigation (with Raman thermometry and with electrical methods).
• Investigated materials: nanowires, quantum dots, quantum wells, epilayers, thin films, graphene, graphene nanoribbons, transition metal dichalcogenides, charge density waves materials.