Orari di ricevimento
On request via email
Curriculum
WORK EXPERIENCE
01/04/2021 present
RTDA Assistant Professor and Researcher in Development of new Technologies and Detection Techniques for Gravitational Wave detectors
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Physics Department, Virgo team, ET team
Winner of call RTDA 67/2020 of 23/06/2020 SC/SDD: 02/A1 -FIS/01
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Responsible of the optomechanical design of SIPS: table-top Suspended Interferometer for Ponderomotive Squeezing generation
Responsible of the optical design integration of the ponderomotive setup SIPS and the EPR squeezer for Advanced Virgo
Responsible of low losses Faraday Isolators (FIs) for the injection of the frequency-dependent squeezing (FDS) in Advanced Virgo+
Responsible of the optical design of the balanced homodyne detector for Advanced Virgo+ and ET
Collaboration with Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) since 2019 for the development of the EPR-SIPS setup
TEACHING/TUTORING ACTIVITIES
2015 - now Tutoring of 40 Master students for Physics and Astrophysics Laboratory classes
2019 - 2023 Co-supervisor of a Ph.D. student in theoretical and applied mechanics for the study and realization of the local and global control system of SIPS interferometer.
2022 - now Supervisor of a Ph.D. student in Astronomy and Astrophysics on the EPR experiment
2021-22 and 2024 - 25 Supervisor of 2 Master students on the EPR-SIPS experiment
2021, 2023, 2024 Tutoring of a research stage at EGO (Virgo site)
2021-22, 2022-23 Co-teaching in the Laboratory of Mechanics classes
2023-24, 2024-25 Co-teaching in the Laboratory of Calculus (C programming)
2020 - now Lab2GO tutor: for the partnership between the Physics Department and Liceo Dante of Rome
01/02/2019 to 31/03/2021
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Quantum Technologies for GW detectors
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Physics Department, Virgo team
Winner of call 130/2018 of 24/09/2018 Cat. A Typ. I, as PI of the research project: Study for the optical integration of the ponderomotive setup SIPS and the EPR squeezer for Advanced Virgo
01/11/2017 to 31/10/2018
Research Engineer in Physics Experiments and Developments for LISA
Artemis Laboratory, Observatoire de la Côte d Azur, CNRS, Nice (France)
R&D work within the international Consortium for the future Space mission of LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, space-based GW detector to be launched in 2034). The realization of test facilities to study the effect of backscattered light from dust particle deposits and due to the optics surface roughness on the detection signal measured by homodyne interferometry or heterodyne interferometry (as it will be used for LISA). The straylight is a crucial issue in the final design of LISA
01/12/2015 to 31/10/2017
Post-Doctoral Researcher in Quantum Technologies for GW Detectors
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Physics Department, Virgo team, ET team
Tutoring during Optics Laboratory classes of the 3rd year bachelor's degree in Physics
30/03/ to 30/10/2015
Optical Engineer for Assembly Integration and Test (AIT)
ALTEN for working at Thales Alenia Space (TAS), Cannes (France)
AIT engineer for Optical Ground Support Equipment (OGSE) for the third generation of weather forecast satellites of ESA (European Space Agency): Meteosat Third Generation (MTG)
01/10/2011 to 15/12/2014
Ph.D. researcher in Physics in a co-partnership between France and Italy
Artemis Laboratory, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Nice (France)
Virgo team, Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome (Italy)
Thesis Title: "Towards the observation of quantum radiation pressure noise in a suspended interferometer: the QuRaG experiment".
Available online: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01170076/document
01/06/2011 to 31/07/2011
Working Stage Post-Master
Artemis Laboratory, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Nice (France)
Generation and optimization of high-order Hermite-Gauss modes and their coupling into mode-cleaner optical cavities for the reduction of the thermal noise of the mirrors. Work experience with optical bench experiments and laser in a class ISO7 cleanroom.
EDUCATION AND FORMATION
01/10/2011 to 15/12/2014 Ph.D in Physics
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
Degree of Ph.D in Physics of Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis and
Degree of Ph.D in Physics of Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
01/11/2008 to 24/02/2011 Master's degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics: 110cum Laude/110
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome (Italy)
01/10/2005 to 30/10/2008 Bachelor s Degree in Physics and Astrophysics: 110/110
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome (Italy)
OTHER DIPLOMA
2-6/7/2012 Diploma for the Competence of the Responsible and Technician of the Laser Safety
INAIL (National Institute for the Insurance against Work Accidents) and ANPEQ (National Professional Association of Qualified Experts in radioprotection), Optical radiation: risk evaluation, measurements, and protection according to Italian Law Decree n.81/2008 (from laser to incoherent sources: UV, visible, infrared)
PERSONAL COMPETENCES
LANGUAGES: Italian, English, French
SCIENTIFIC PRIZES
2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/P4
2016 Gruber Cosmology Prize http://gruber.yale.edu/prize/2016-gruber-cosmology-prize
2017 Einstein Medal https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medaglia_Albert_Einstein
SOME RECENT TALKS
Quantum Noise Reduction with Squeezing in Gravitational Wave Detectors, and upgraded technologies, Plenary invited talk at Gravitational waves, ElectroMagnetic and dark-MAtter GEMMA 2 International workshop, Rome, Italy (September 2024)
Advanced Virgo detector, status and upgrades for the future observing runs, H0.4:GW session at COSPAR 2024 45th Scientific Assembly, Busan, Republic of Korea (South Korea), (July 2024)
Broadband Quantum Noise reduction in a small-scale suspended interferometer, Session on Quantum Physics, Quantum Optics of the 11th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP2022) Crete, Greece (September 2022)
EPR and SIPS squeezing experiments for the broadband quantum noise reduction in Advanced Virgo, Invited talk at the Instrumentation for Astronomy and Space Science (IASS) 2022 workshop, within the 3rd Korea Geoscience Union annual meeting, Pyeong-Chang, Republic of Korea (South Korea), (August 2022)
Status of Advanced Virgo and upgrades before the next observing runs, Plenary invited talk at the 9th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2020), Crete, Greece (September 2020)
Small scale suspended interferometer for ponderomotive squeezing as test bench for EPR squeezer integration in Advanced Virgo, GRASS2019, Padova (October 2019)
Dust particles contamination monitoring in the backscattering light experiment for the LISA mission, NANOP2018, Nanophotonics and Nano Micro Optics International Conference, Rome (1-3 October 2018)
SEMINARS
Enhancing the sensitivity of Gravitational Wave detectors VIR-0752B-23, Kyung Hee University, Suwon, Republic of Korea (South Korea), (7 September 2023), invited
Improving the sensitivity of Gravitational Wave detectors: from the birth of GW Astronomy to future detectors, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, Republic of Korea (South Korea), (24 August 2022), invited
Small scale suspended interferometer for ponderomotive squeezing as a test bench for EPR squeezer integration in Advanced Virgo, MIT LIGO lab, Boston (US) (November 2019), invited
Hunting Gravitational Waves , invited seminar at ENEA Centro Ricerche Frascati, 15th January 2019
The optics in Virgo, seminar for the Optics students of 3rd year of Physics Classes at Sapienza University, (May 2016)
SOME RELEVANT RECENT PUBLICATIONS
F. De Marco, S. Di Pace et al., Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen conditional squeezing for next generation Gravitational-Wave detectors, NIM A, Vol 1070, Part 2, 170008 (2025)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2024.170008
F. Acernese, S. Di Pace et al., Frequency-Dependent Squeezed Vacuum Source for the Advanced Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detector, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041403 (2023) DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.041403
S Di Pace, Status of Advanced Virgo and upgrades before next observing runs Physica Scripta 96 124054 (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/AC2EFC
M. Bawaji, S. Di Pace, V. Sequino et al., Automated source of squeezed vacuum states driven by finite state machine based software, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 92, Issue 5 (2021) DOI: http://doi.org/10.1063/5.0046317
S. Ast, S. Di Pace, W. Chaibi, J. Millo et al., Higher-order Hermite-Gauss modes for gravitational waves detection, Phys. Rev. D, 103, 042008 (2021)
DOI: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.103.042008
L Giacoppo, S Di Pace, et al., Towards ponderomotive squeezing with SIPS experiment, Physica Scripta 96 114007 (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ac1637
S Di Pace, L Naticchioni, M De Laurentis, F Travasso, Thermal noise study of a radiation pressure noise limited optical cavity with fused silica mirror suspensions, European Physical Journal D vol. 74, 227 (2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2020-10183-7
F. Acernese, S. Di Pace et al., Increasing the Astrophysical Reach of the Advanced Virgo Detector via the Application of Squeezed Vacuum States of Light, Phys. Rev. Lett., 123, 231108 (2019) DOI: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.231108
S Di Pace, A Dabbech, V Khodnevych, M Lintz, N Dinu-Jaeger, Particle contamination monitoring in the backscattering light experiment for LISA, Open Material Sciences 5 (1), 12-18 (2019) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/oms-2019-0002
S Di Pace, et al. Small scale Suspended Interferometer for Ponderomotive Squeezing (SIPS) as test bench of the EPR squeezer for Advanced Virgo, Proceeding of the GRavitational-waves Science&technology Symposium (GRASS) 2019 (2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3569196
V Sequino, S Di Pace et al. EPR experiment for a broadband quantum noise reduction in gravitational wave detectors, Proceeding of the GRavitational-waves Science&technology Symposium (GRASS) 2019 (2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3554320
B. P. Abbott, S. Di Pace et al., GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral, Phys. Rev. Lett., 119, 161101 (2017) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101
B. P. Abbott, S. Di Pace et al., Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 031102 (2016) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102