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Name and Surname: Andrea Goldoni
Place and date of birth: Modena, June 19th, 1967
Nationality: Italian
Marital Status: Married
Home address: Strada per Basovizza 30, 34128 Trieste, Italy
Work address: Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., s.s. 14 km 163.5 in Area Science Park, 34149 - Trieste, Italy
e-mail: goldonia@elettra.eu
Telephone: +39-040-3758038
Mobile phone: +39-335-1272654
FAX: +39-040-3758565

Education and Employment:

1981-1986: High School Diploma in “Nuclear Energy”
June 1992: Degree in Physics (Modena University, Italy), Graduation 110/110 & lode
Thesis title: “Indagine spettroscopica di monocristalli di Bi2CuO4”, Supervisor: Prof. Umberto del Pennino (Modena)
March 1993 - March 1994: Civil service
November 1993 - November 1996: Ph.D. student at the Trieste University (Italy)

Thesis title: "Evidenze sperimentali di transizioni di fase di superficie nel C60(111) e Ge(111)" , Supervisor: Prof. S. Modesti (Trieste)

November 1996 - April 1997: Exchange Student at the Stanford University (USA)

Supervisors: prof. Z.-X. Shen and prof. F. Parmigiani

June 1997- December2003: Beamline scientist at the SuperESCA beamline - Elettra Synchrotron (Trieste)
January 2001 - 2007: Head of the "Surface Science Division" (i.e. the Surface Science Laboratory, the Photoelectron Diffraction Laboratory and 4 beamlines: Aloisa, BaD ElPh, SuperESCA and VUV) at the Elettra Synchrotron facility (Trieste, Italy)
April 2005 - Head of the micro- nano-Carbon laboratory (MNC-Lab)
April 2006 - April 2011: Beamline Group Coordinator at the Elettra Synchrotron facility (Trieste, Italy)
2010 - 2013 – IUVSTA (International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications) member of the Surface Science Division and Divisional Committee


Known Foreign Languages: English, French

Scientific background and experiences:

- Ultra High Vacuum systems & surface science techniques, film growth.
- Electron spectroscopies (photoemission, angle resolved photoemission, photoelectron diffraction, electron energy loss, high-resolution electron energy loss, Auger, near-edge x-ray absorption)
- Optical spectroscopies (photoluminescence and photoabsorption)
- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
- Low Energy Electron Diffraction
- Many years of experience at synchrotron radiation facilities
- Systems investigated: fullerenes, nanotubes, organics, H-Tc superconductors, transition metal oxides, metals (Ag, Cu, Rh, Ni, Pt), silicon & germanium, thin films


Coordinator of several Regional research projects on carbon-based materials (fullerenes, nanotubes and porphyrins) and of a project for a new beamline for high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission experiments (BaD ElPh) funded by the Italian Ministry for University & Research (MIUR). Participant as a leading partner to other projects financed by EU and MIUR.

Expert scientific evaluator for:

INTAS, ERA-NET & ERC (EU)
Research Grant Council network (Singapore)
CIVR & MIUR (Italy)
ACS Petroleum Research (USA)

Referee of scientific journals:

Phys. Rev. Lett.; Phys. Rev. B; Appl. Phys. Lett.; Nano Letters; JACS; ACSnano; ChemPhysChem; Carbon; J. Phy. Chem.; J. Chem. Phys.; Chem. Phys. Lett.; Nanotechnology; New J. Phys.; Surf. Science; J. Electron Spect. Related Phenom.; Surf. Rev. Lett.; J. Phys. Chem Solids; European J. Phys. B; European Phys. J.; J. Phys. Cond. Matter; etc.

last update March 09, 2014, at 05:51 PM by Andrea Goldoni