University of Fribourg

Physics Department

Soft Matter and Photonics group
Chemin du Musèe 3
1700 Fribourg - Suisse
+41(0)26 300 9113

      

 

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Since the beginning of November 2010 I work as PostDoc at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in the Soft Matter and Photonics group of Prof. Frank Scheffold. Here I presently develop my project DyNEFI (supported by a Marie-Curie IEF Fellowship) dealing with applications of the Near Field Imaging techniques to dynamic measurements on Soft Matter samples.

I constantely collaborate with the group of Prof. Francesco Mantegazza and Dr. Doriano Brogioli at the Medecine department of University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). The collaboration involves the development of innovative optical techniques for Soft Matter and medecine applications.

From November 2009 to October 2010 I was PostDoc at the University of Pau, in the Laboratoire des Fluides Complexes with Dr. Henri Bataller, where I performed experimental activity on optical techniques to study the Soret effect in multi-component oil mixtures in porous media under high pressure. This position was supported by the University of Bordeaux-1 and the European Space Agency.

From January 2006 to October 2009 I have been a PostDoc in the PLASMAPROMETEO Center of Excellence at University of Milano-Bicocca under the guide of Prof. Claudia Riccardi. Here I started up an optics lab to develop optical techniques as diagnostical tools on plasma physics. Moreover I designed and built an inductive plasma source to study new plasma treatments on various materials and I spent part of my time analysing various samples with a FIB/SEM microscope.

I did my PhD and Master thesis within the Optics and Microgravity laboratory of Prof. Marzio Giglio at University of Milano under the supervision of Prof. Alberto Vailati. There I focused on the dynamical analysis of non-equilibrium fluctuations in free-diffusion experiments and I designed and built a flowing-junction cell for preparing a microgravity free-diffusion experiment.