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Associate Professor of Physics
SAPIENZA Università di Roma
Dipartimento di Scienze di Base ed Applicate per l Ingegneria
Via Antonio Scarpa, 16 00161 Roma Italia
Phone +39-06-49916562
Fax +39-06-44240183
francesco.michelotti@uniroma1.it
http://w3.uniroma1.it/cattedra_michelotti/

ACADEMIC CAREER

2014 Full Professor qualification in
Experimental Physics Italian code FIS/01
Experimental Matter Physics Italian code: 02/B1

2002-present Associate Professor in
Experimental Physics Italian code FIS/01
Experimental Matter Physics Italian code: 02/B1
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Facoltà di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale

1994-95 Visiting Researcher
France Telecom - Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications (CNET), Bagneux, Francia

1994 Visiting Researcher
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Jena, Germania

1993-2002 Assistant Professor
Experimental Physics Italian code FIS/01
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Facoltà di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale

BIBLIOMETRIC INDICES

Reference database SCOPUS - Updated March 20th 2023
Total number of articles published 148
Number of citations 2642
H Index 29
Number of articles published during the last 10 years 54
Number of citations during the last 15 years 1953

EDUCATION

1993 Ph.D. in Electromagnetism
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza , Roma, Italia

1989 Master Degree in Physics (Italian Laurea)
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza , Roma, Italia
110/110 Cum laude

1983 High School Diploma in scientific studies 60/60
Liceo Scientifico Massimiliano Massimo S.J., Roma, Italia

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
My scientific activity was devoted mainly to the study of the linear and nonlinear optical properties, of the second and third order, of dielectric and semiconducting materials. In particular I studied quantum confined systems, amorphous semiconductors, organic side-chain and conjugated polymers, molecular solids, guest-host systems. In the case of organic polymers, I studied extensively the first (Pockels) and second order (Kerr) electro-optics properties of thin films. I also carried out research on the fabrication and characterization of organic light emitting diodes and organic solar cells. During the last ten years my attention focused on biophotonics, in particular the application of Bloch surface waves (BSW) on photonic crystals for early diseases detection. The Bloch surface wave concept has also been adapted to gas detection with porous silicon photonic crystals and to photon engineering in dye sensitized solar cells. I also studied the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) on thin transparent conducting oxides.

since 2006 Member of the Center for Nanotechnologies Applied to Engineering (CNIS) of SAPIENZA University of Roma
since 2018 Member of the Information-based Technology Innovation Center for Health (STITCH) of SAPIENZA University of Roma
1992-2004 I carried out part of my research at the Institute of Solid State Electronics (CNR-IESS) and at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies (CNR-IFN) of the Italian National Research Concil.
since 2015 I carried out part of my research at the Centre for Nano and Neuro Life Sciences of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT-CLNS). Since 2022 I m an affiliate member of the IIT.

Publications The research activity generated about 150 papers on international peer-review journals and 150 invited, oral and poster presentations at national and international conferences.

MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
since 1997 Head of Research Group - I funded and direct scientifically and technically the Molecular Photonics Research Group of the Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering Department. The direction activities include the supervision of researchers and students who operate in the group, the management of national and international research projects and the collaboration with several national and international research groups.
since 1997 Head of Research Laboratories - I funded and direct scientifically and technically the Molecular Photonics Laboratory of the Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering Department. The laboratory is equipped with:

SPR and BSWR custom surface plasmon polariton and photonic crystal biosensing platforms
GESIM nano-bio-spotter used to deposit antibodies, proteins and ss-DNA with high spatial resolution
Thermo-Fisher ELISA plate reader
Glove-box with nitrogen atmosphere including gold sputtering and spin coating systems
Complete experimental setup for the characterization of photonic integrated circuits, with microscope
Equipment and expertise for microfluidics (cells, motorized pumps, tubings, switches, valves, temperature control)
Equipment and expertise for the chemical functionalization of optical biosensors (gold/dielectric surfaces)
Equipment and expertise in lasers; He-Ne lasers (632.8 and 543 nm) and laser diodes (635, 670, 1300, 1550nm, tunable 1490-1590nm)
Large variety of optical hardware, such as mirrors, lenses, beamsplitters, polarizers, phase retarders, fibers, objectives
Optical instrumentation: Power meters, spectrometers, photomultipliers, SS photodetectors, monochromators, optical microscopes, amplifiers
Mechanical mountings: manual/motorized mechanical stages used to assemble benchtop laboratory setups in optics and photonics, optical benches

since 2000 Head of Didactic Laboratories - In 2000 I funded and since then I supervise the Optics Didactic Laboratory of the Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering Department. The laboratory is equipped with optical instruments devoted to practical laboratory work in optics and photonics for the master of science courses in Optics, Quantum Electronics, Lasers, Biophotonics given by teachers of the department.
Since 2019 I supervise the Physics Didactic Laboratories (LADIFI) of the Civil and Industrial Faculty of SAPIENZA University of Roma.
since 2017 Member of Doctorate Board - I m a permanent member of the Board for the course of doctorate in Theoretical and Applied Mechanical Engineering of the Civil and Industrial Faculty of SAPIENZA University of Roma.
2016-2022 Elected Member of the Faculty and Department Boards - For two consecutive periods I was elected memebr of the Board of the Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering Department and of the Board of the Civil and Industrial Faculty.
since 1993 Member of Evaluation Committes for Final Doctorate Exams and University Concours - During my academic career I served as a member of several public committees for national and international final doctorate exams (Univ.Napoli Federico II, Politecnico di Milano, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Politecnico di Torino, Università di Padova, Friedrich Schiller Universiteit, Jena (D)) and for researcher and associate professor selective concours (Università di Torino, Politecnico di Milano).

Member of Technical Committes for the Evaluation of Research Projects

2014 Region of Campania POR-FESR 2007/2013 Cooperative technology transfer and first industrialization projects for high potential innovtive enterprises.
2017-2022 Region of Veneto - POR FESR 2014-­2020 Funding of research and development projects of industrial districts and innivatice regional netweorks.
since 2023 European Union Horizon - Health and Digital Executive Agency - Digital and emerging technologies for competitiveness and fit for the Green Deal
since 2000 Reviewer of National and International Research projects: ETH-Zurich (CH), STW Dutch Technology Foundation (NL), NSERC (Canada), Czech Science Foundation (Czech Republic)), Italian FIRB giovani, Università di Verona.

COORDINATION OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

2021-2023 Regione Lazio, POR FESR LAZIO 2014-2020, Contratto N° A0375-2020-36528- NANO-COVID-TEST - Triage nano-fotonico, label-free, per anticorpi sierici anti-SARS CoV2 dedicato ad ambienti ospedalieri a carattere non infettivologico, 30 months, Role PI
2020-2024 Regione Lazio, POR FESR LAZIO 2014-2020, Cod.SIGEM 19036AP000000025, BIOLIGHT - Nuovi sensori nanofotonici per la biopsia liquida, 36 months, Role PI
2019-2021 MIUR, PON-FESR, Contratto N° ARS01_00769 NEON - Nanofotonica per nuovi approcci diagnostici e terapEutici in Oncologia e Neurologia, 30 months, Role CO-PI
2018-2020 Regione Lazio, POR FESR LAZIO 2014-2020, Contratto N° 85-2017-14945 - TURNOFF - Biomarcatori azionabili circolanti nel carcinoma mammario: una nuova piattaforma nanofotonica di biosensing di tipo point-of-care, 27 months, Role PI
2012-2015 EU-STREP-FP7-ICT Contratto N°318035 BILOBA - Bloch electromagnetic surface wave Bio-sensors for early cancer diagnosis, 36 months, Role PI
2003-2006 Min.Difesa Contratto N°665 Linea di ritardo miniaturizzata tutto ottica per il vicino infrarosso, 36 months, Role PI
2001-2004 EU-STREP-FP5-IST Contratto N° IST-2000-28018 NAIS - Next-generation active integrated optic subsystems, 36 months, Role CO-PI
2008 SAPIENZA - Progetto di Ateneo Federato - Progettazione, Fabbricazione e Caratterizzazione di Nano strutture fotoniche per applicazioni in biosensing, 12 months, Role PI
2003 INFM - PAIS Study of the thermo- and photo-stability of the electro-optic properties of organic materials to be used in the new active integrated optical Systems, 12 months, Role PI
since 1996 SAPIENZA - Progetti di Facoltà - Diversi progetti di piccolo importo sulle proprie tematiche di ricerca, Role PI

PATENTS
Owner of the Italian patent Dispositivo sensore di gas a struttura fotonica operante mediante onde di superficie di Bloch e relativo procedimento di fabbricazione (Gas sensing device based on a photonic structure operating by means of Bloch surface waves and fabrication procedure) by Descrovi E., Giorgis F., Geobaldo F. and Michelotti F. (Politecnico di Torino 70% and Sapienza 30%), (IB2010/055089, WO2011058502)

SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester (USA), Prof. B.Miller
Imperial College - Department of Materials, London (UK), Prof. M.Stevens
Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik IOF, Jena ( D ), Dr. N.Danz
Fraunhofer-Insitut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik IWS, Dresden (D), Dr. F.Sonntag
Laval University, Department of Min-Met-Materials Engineering & CHU de Quebec Research Center, Quebec City (Canada), Prof. D.Mantovani
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Curitiba (BR), Prof. H.J.Kalinowski
Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Chimica Organica, Prof. C.Barolo
Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Oncologia, Torino (I), Prof. F.Bussolino
Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome (I), Dr. P.Giacomini
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata and CHOSE - Polo Solare Organico Regione Lazio, Roma (I), Prof. A.Di Carlo, Prof. T.Brown
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Fisica, Roma (I), Prof. M. Ortolani
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Centre for Nano Life Sciences, Roma (I), Dr. S.De Panfilis, Prof. C.M.Casciola
ENEA - CR Frascati - Laboratorio di Micro e Nanostrutture Fotoniche, Frascati ( I ), Dr. R.M.Montereali
ENEA - CR Casaccia - Laboratorio di Tecnologia dei film sottili, Frascati ( I ), Dr. F.Menchini
ICNR Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN), Roma (I), Dr. V.Foglietti
CNR Istituto di Biologia Molecolare e Patologia, Roma (I), Dr. E.Falvo
CNR Istituto di Nanotecnologie (NANOTEC) Lecce (I), Dr. L.Dominici, Dr. A.Fieramosca
IBI, Istituto Biochimico Italiano Giovanni Lorenzini Spa, Aprilia (I), Dr. L.Sibilio
HORIBA Scientific, Palaiseau (F), Dr. E.Maillart
KDS Raderberger GmbH, Großröhrsdorf (D), T.Schubert

DIDACTIC ACTIVITIES

Primary Didactic Activities

since 1996 I taught mainly courses of Physics of the Engineering Faculties.

Academic Year 2022/23 Professor in charge of the following courses:

GENERAL PHYSICS 1 (9 CFU), Bachelor in Electronic and Communication Engineering, Information Science, Informatics and Statistics Faculty of SAPIENZA University of Roma

BIOPHOTONICS LABORATORY (6 CFU), Master in Nanotechnology Engineering, Civil and Industrial Engineering Faculty of SAPIENZA University of Roma

since 1993 Complementary Didactic Activities - Lectures and seminars in the frame of the MS courses of Atomic Physics (93/94), Optoelectronics (92/93 to 95/96), Quantum Electronics (92/93, 97/98), Mechanical Technologies 1 (95/96, 96/97), Optics (95/96 to 02/03).

2008-2011 Master Courses - I taught at the Odontoiatry Faculty of SAPIENZA University of Roma in the frame of a 2nd level Master on Lasers in Odontostomatology a course on Laser/Biologial tissues interaction.

Didactic activities in the frame of MS and Doctorate Courses of other Universities

1999-2002 Università di Torino, Faculty of Physical and Natural Sciences, Course of Materials Physics, Lectures on the Physical properties of organic molecular and polymeric materials for applications in optoelectronics.
2004-05 Politecnico di Torino, Interpolitechnic School MI-TO-BA, Doctorate course on Materials Science, Lectures on the Physical properties of organic molecular and polymeric materials for applications in optical and photonic devices.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

since 2023 Associate Editor of the Optics Materials Express of the Optica Publishing Group (formerly Optical Society of America)

since 1993 Reviewer for Scientific International Journals
Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics (American Institute of Physics);
Sensors and Actuators B, Optics Communications, Optical Materials , Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Thin Solid Films, (Elsevier);
Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Optics Express, Optics Letters (Optica);
Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society);
Analytical Chemistry, ACS Photonics (ACS)

since 1993 Organization of Conferences and Summer Schools
1993 Organizing Secretary, Summer School "Advances in integrated optics", CCSEM, Erice, Italy
1997 Co-Chairman, Congress "Materials for Nonlinear Optics" of the European Optical Society, Capri, Italy
2000 Co-Chairman, Symposium H Optoelectronics II: Molecular Photonics - From macroscopic to nanoscopic applications Spring Meeting of the European Materials Research Society, Strasbourg, France
2003 Director, Summer School Microresonators as building blocks for VLSI photonics , CCSEM, Erice, Italy
2008 General Chairman. 9th European Conference on Application of Polar Dielectrics , Roma, Italy
2013 Chairman, NanoForum , Special session Micro and nanoscale biosensors for early diagnostics , Roma, Italy
2015 Member of the Organizing Committee, Workshop Luce, Imaging e Microscopia, Spettri di applicazione LIMS , ENEA Frascati, Italy
2015 General Chairman, Workshop Advances in Optical Biosensing , Roma, Italy
2015 Chairman, NanoItaly (1st Edition) , Special session Nano-Bio-Photonics
2015 Chairman, 24th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS-24), Opening workshop Biosensing with surface waves , Curitiba, Paranà, Brazil
2018 Member of the Organizing Committee, Workshop Luce, Imaging e Microscopia, Spettri di applicazione LIMS , ENEA Frascati, Italy
2019 Special Session Organizer and Chairman, Conference PIERS 2019, Roma, Italy
2020 Programme Committee Member, SPIE Photonics West, Frontiers in Biological Detection: From Nanosensors to Systems XII, San Francisco, USA
2020 Member of the Organizing Committee, Workshop Luce, Imaging e Microscopia, Spettri di applicazione LIMS , ENEA Frascati, Italy

LANGUAGES

Mother tongue Italian
Other languages
COMPREHENSION SPEAKING WRITING
Listening Reading Interacting Oral
English Excellent (C2) Excellent (C2) Excellent (C2) Excellent (C2) Excellent (C2)

French Good (C1) Good (C1) Good (C1) Good(C1) Sufficient (B1)