Research
Since 2/2009
Beamline Scientist FERMI Free Electron Laser Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy DiProI Beamline
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Research topics: The DiProI beamline end station, designed, commissioned and tested on the Fermi@Elettra Free Electron Laser (FEL), will perform Coherent Diffraction Imaging (CDI), a novel technique exploiting the coherence of the FEL X-rays to perform high resolution lensless microscopy. High brilliance and ultrafast pulses make CDI suitable for single shot imaging of free standing samples and allow employing pump-probe time resolved techniques.
International Experiences: Several visits to collaborations sites, for a total of five months to LCLS at the SLAC National Accelerator Lab in Stanford, Ca, USA and one month at the DESY Lab in Hamburg, Germany: familiarization with the major FEL facilities, techniques and research groups. Participation to the world first X-ray FEL CDI experiments, acquiring experience about correlated techniques, such as ion time of flight spectrometry, aerosol particle delivery, phase retrieval reconstruction.
1/2007 - 1/2009
Post Doctoral Physicist Advanced Light Source LBNL, Berkeley, CA, USA Experimental System Group
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Research topics: Study, characterization and optimization of photocathodes to be used in accelerators injectors. Better theoretical understanding of photoemission features like quantum efficiency and thermal emittance can bring to technical improvements in the development of fourth generation light sources as free electron lasers.
11/2003 - 12/2006
Research Assistant Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, INFM Università Cattolica, Brescia, Italy ElPhoS Lab
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Research topics: Ultrashort coherent laser pulses allow to investigate solid state physics in the femtosecond timescale. The electrons correlations in noble metals crystals can be studied by the investigation of surface and image potential states by non linear and pump and probe photoemission.
Teaching Experiences: Teacher assistant for the courses of Structure of Matter (2005) and Dynamics of Particles Systems (2006).