Valentina Bonanni

RESEARCH INTERESTS

X-ray imaging; X-ray fluorescence; Ultra high vacuum and ambient pressure magnetic x-ray spectroscopy; Nanomagnetism; Magneto-optics; Plasmonics and Magnetoplasmonics

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

• May 2020 – today
  Scientist at Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. Elettra Synchrotron – TwinMic beamline (https://www.elettra.trieste.it/elettra-beamlines/twinmic.html)
• April 2019 – April 2020
  Postdoc at Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A FERMI FEL – MagneDyn beamline
  My research activity was dedicated to users support in element specific EUV and soft x-ray resonant inelastic scattering (RIXS) and magnetic scattering experiments.
• July 2015 – December 2018
  Postdoc (A) at the University of Milan Physics Department – University of Milan & CNR-IOM (Trieste)
  I worked on a project based on the employment of synchrotron radiation spectroscopy (XAS and XMCD) in magnetic nanoparticles study. The project of the Physics Department of the University of Milan was in collaboration with APE beamline at Elettra Synchrotron. I was also involved in users assistance and instruments development. In particular, I worked on the design and employment of an in-operando cell for x-rays absorption measurements at ambient pressure.
• June 2013 – December 2014 and June 2012 – June 2013
  Postdoc at the University of Florence and Postdoc at CNR-ISTM
  Laboratory of Molecular Magnetism, Chemistry Department - University of Florence
  My research activity was dedicated to magnetoplasmonics employing optical magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) technique. During this period, I worked also on magnetometric, spectroscopic and magneto-optical characterization of magnetic nanoparticles, in particular iron ferrites.
• June 2010 – June 2012
  Postdoc (Göran Gustafssons Fellow) - Department of Applied Physics - Bionanophotonics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
  My postdoctoral activity in the group of Bionanophotonics - Chalmers University of Technology, under the supervision of Prof. A. Dmitriev focused on magnetoplasmonics.
• September 2009 – May 2010
  Postdoc (Blanceflor Postdoctoral Fellow) - Material Physics - Applied Spintronics Group, Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden
  After being awarded a grant from BLANCEFLOR Boncompagni-Ludovisi Foundation, I started my postdoctoral activity at Prof. J. Åkerman’s group (Material Physics - Applied Spintronics, KTH, Stockholm). I worked mostly on graded magnetic anisotropy and magnetoplasmonics in ferromagnetic metals employing magneto-optical techniques.

EDUCATION

• 2006 – 2008 PhD in Physics - University of Ferrara
  Title of the Thesis: “Magnetostatic interactions in arrays of nanostructures”
  Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Vavassori
• 1998 – 2005 Master Degree in Physics - University of Perugia
  Title of the Thesis: “Study of single-particle modes in liquid gallium by neutron’s scattering”
  Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Sacchetti

PUBLICATIONS

(https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8346-0069)