Elettra Fellow to Prof. Fulvio Parmigiani
Professor Fulvio Parmigiani was awarded the 2019 Elettra Fellow title. This title is attributed every year to internationally-renowned scientists by the Board of Directors of Elettra – Sincrotrone Trieste. |
At Elettra – Sincrotrone Trieste he developed a new beamline for the investigations of the magnetic properties of solid-state systems. Years later, in Trieste the professor could finally realize his long-sought dream, namely, the realization of an X-Ray laser, under the form of the Free Electron Laser (FEL) FERMI. This machine is worldwide the FEL more closing resembling the concept of a laser, because of the feature of the seeding, he strongly promoted. FERMI has been an extremely successful development, in terms of performances and scientific outcomes, delivering fully coherent EUV and soft-X-ray femtosecond light pulses and Fulvio Parmigiani was its first Scientific Director for the years 2003-2015. In parallel, he developed the T-ReX Laboratory, which is nowadays the Facility for table-top laser-based ultrafast spectroscopies at FERMI. In this Laboratory he conducted fundamental studies on the out-of-equilibrium properties of complex materials, including high-critical-temperature superconductors, topological insulators and magnetic materials, investigated by optical and photoelectron spectroscopies. Through his fundamental contributions to Elettra and FERMI over the last years, by providing invaluable advice in many areas of development and by conducting pioneering experiments, Professor Fulvio Parmigiani has greatly contributed to the success of our organization. |