Skills and Specialties
- Leader of the photon beam transport and diagnostics group at the FERMI FEL user facility:
Definition of targets (technical and scientific), budgets, and roadmaps
Managing of group’s budget, workforce, resources, and scheduling
Managing facility upgrade budget for what concerns photon transport and diagnostics
Preparation of call for tenders: technical specifications, scores, etc.
Experience in recruiting (scientists and technicians) and group organization
Periodical project reports to Scientific Advisory, Machine Advisory, and internal committees
Scientific collaborations establishment (national and international)
Presentations at international conferences and workshops
Member of: FERMI Machine Physics Team
FERMI Machine Physics Team Steering Board
FERMI Engineering Team
FERMI Construction and Upgrade Workpackages (Beamline Upgrade leader)
FERMI Integration, Construction and Commissioning (PADReS and beamlines)
FERMI User Proposals’ Technical Feasibility Evaluation Team
- Project Leader and Technical Representative of three Elettra-DESY scientific agreements for the development of a Hartmann wavefront sensor (WFS) and two active optics focusing mirror system (KAOS and KAOS2):
Definition of targets (technical and scientific), budgets, and roadmaps
Managing budget, workforce, resources, and scheduling
Opto-mechanical design, installation and commissioning at FERMI (WFS) and FLASH (KAOS, KAOS2)
- R&D Board Member, WG1.4 (Photon Diagnostics) Spokesperson and WG6 (Education, Training and Outreach) Representative for Elettra of the LEAPS European Consortium (16 organizations representing 19 light sources facilities across Europe):
Definition and strengthening of the R&D network across European light sources facilities
Definition and coordination of WG activities
Organization of periodical meetings and workshops
Presentations of intermediate and final reports
- Steering Committee Member, Spokesperson and Technical Representative for FERMI of the EUCALL (EC H2020 project) work package 7 (PUCCA - Pulse Characterization and Control):
Definition of WP activities and coordination of FERMI participation
- Development scientist at the FERMI FEL user facility:
Participation in the commissioning of the FERMI FEL, the photon transport and the endstations
Organization of external groups’ beamtimes for intensity, wavefront and polarization measurements
Involvement in the mechanical design of the photon diagnostics and transport systems
- Spokesperson of the EuroFEL (EC FP7 project) work package 3 (Online Photon Beam Diagnostics and Transport).
Definition and coordination of WP activities
Creation of an R&D network across European FEL laboratories
Budget and time schedule management
Organization of periodical meetings and workshops
Presentations of intermediate and final reports
- Team member in the opto-mechanical design, scheduling, resource management, installation and commissioning of several projects including:
FEL EUV-SXR photon beam diagnostics and transport systems - LEADER
EIS-TIMER beamline at the FERMI FEL facility
Optical elements for a FEL beamline at FERMI - LEADER
Sub-ps EUV-SXR streak camera for FEL beam diagnostics - LEADER
Endstation for low T (1.5K) and high H (7T) XAS-XMCD
Endstation for spectroscopic analysis on a synchrotron beamline - LEADER
Branch-line and endstation for SXR scanning microscopy - LEADER
SXR fluorescence spectrometer on a synchrotron beamline
3rd generation synchrotron beamline at Elettra
Optical elements for a 3rd generation synchrotron beamline - LEADER
- Development scientist at the BACH beamline.
Extensive experience with UHV, sample preparation, and synchrotron radiation techniques
Opto-mechanical design, installation and commissioning of BACH beamline and its endstations
8-years-long experience in external users’ support at a 3rd generation synchrotron radiation facility
Optical surfaces’ testing and characterization using LTP and MicroMap
Simulation techniques of x-rays sources and optical systems using computer codes
Software development for beamline control (LabVIEW)
Other duties
- SPIE Conference EOO114 “X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers: Advances in Source Development and Instrumentation” (Prague - April 2019) Co-Chair
- PhotonDiag2018 - Workshop on FEL Photon Diagnostics, Instrumentation, and Beamlines Design (Hamburg - September 2018) Scientific Program Committee member, Session Chair, and FELs of Europe Award on Photon Transport and Diagnostics Selection Committee member
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IWXM 2018 - International Workshop on X-Ray Optics and Metrology (Hsinchu, Taiwan - June 2018) International Advisory Committee Member
IWXM2018: http://iwxm2018.nsrrc.org.tw/site/page.aspx?pid=901&sid=1203&lang=en;
- PhotonDiag2017 - Workshop on FEL Photon Diagnostics, Instrumentation, and Beamlines Design (Menlo Park/SLAC - May 2017) Scientific Program Committee member and FELs of Europe Award on Photon Transport and Diagnostics Selection Committee member
PhotonDiag2015: https://portal.slac.stanford.edu/sites/conf_public/photondiag2017/Pages/default.aspx
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SPIE Conference OO117 “X-Ray Lasers and Coherent X-Ray Sources: Development and Applications” (Prague - April 2017) Program Committee member
- SPIE Conference EOO111 “Advances in X-ray Free-Electron Laser Instrumentation” (Prague - April 2017) Program Committee member
- SOS 2016 - Workshop on Softwares for Optical Simulations (Trieste - October 2016) Co-Organizer and Chair
SOS Workshop: https://www.elettra.eu/Conferences/2016/SOS/
- PhotonDiag2015 - Workshop on FEL Photon Diagnostics, Instrumentation, and Beamlines Design Organizer and Chair
PhotonDiag2015: http://www.elettra.eu/Conferences/2015/PhotonDiag/
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IWXM 2015 - International Workshop on X-Ray Optics and Metrology Program Committee member
IWXM2015: https://sites.google.com/a/lbl.gov/iwxrom2015/home
- SPIE Conference OP315 “X-Ray Lasers and Coherent X-Ray Sources: Development and Applications XI” (San Diego - August 2015) Program Committee member
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XFEL Users‘ Meeting 2015 Satellite Workshop “Photon Beam Diagnostics” co-organizer (Hamburg - January 2015)
- MEADOW - MEtrology, Astronomy, Diagnostics and Optics Workshop Organizer and Chair
MEADOW2013: https://www.elettra.eu/Conferences/2013/MEADOW/
- SPIE Conference OP313 “X-Ray Lasers and Coherent X-Ray Sources: Development and Applications X” (San Diego - August 2013) Program Committee member
- SPIE Conference EOO111 “Advances in X-ray Free-Electron Laser Instrumentation” (Prague - April 2013) Program Committee member and Session Chair
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XFEL Users‘ Meeting 2013 Satellite Workshop “Photon Beam Diagnostics” co-organizer (Hamburg - January 2013)
- Design and Project Planning for an Online Tender X-ray Spectrometer at SwissFEL (September 2017) Evaluator for the Swiss National Science Foundation
- Design and Project Planning for LOREA ALBA beamline (Barcelona - April 2016) Review Panel Member
- Design and Project Planning for SoftiMAX MAX IV beamline (Lund - October 2015) Review Panel Member
- Conceptual Design Review for LCLS II metrology lab (Stanford - July 2015) Committee Member
- Conceptual Design Review for LCLS II mirrors committee member (SLAC - August 2012)
- Conceptual Design Report for the FERMI@Elettra project chapter author (FERMI - 2007)
- Co-author of a Research Project funded by Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia for 1.000.000€ (2010)
- Member of the editorial and technical team in charge of re-designing the new Sincrotrone Trieste webpage (2012)
- Teaching, tutoring, and divulgation activities such as:
PhD supervisor
Laurea Degree (M.Sc.) co-supervisor
Synchrotron Radiation School International Center for Theoretical Physics 2000, 2008
Hercules European School 2004
Vasa International School work experience at Elettra 2008, 2009
High-school and University students teaching
Elettra Open Days 2005-2010
STAR (Science in Trieste And Researchers) 2010
