MICHELE ORTOLANI
Michele Ortolani
Department of Physics
Sapienza University of Rome
P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Nuovo Edificio Fisica (Fermi Building), 4 floor, room n°405
Tel.: 06-49913495 (interno: 2-3495)
E-mail (official): michele.ortolani@uniroma1.it
E-mail (research): michele.ortolani@roma1.infn.it
The experimental physics research activity of Dr. Michele Ortolani is focused on terahertz, far-infrared and mid-infrared spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging with advanced experimental tools:
- Infrared synchrotron radiation and infrared free-electron lasers;
- Quantum cascade lasers and quantum-well sources and detectors;
- Spectroscopy of solids at low temperatures and low electromagnetic frequencies;
- Scanning near-field infrared microscopy and related nanofab developments.
next event of the Italian Plasmonics Community:
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Current Position 2011-now ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
RESEARCH: Department of Physics. Infrared Spectroscopy; Terahertz imaging; Near-field spectromicroscopy; Plasmonics; Spectroscopy of 2D materials and heterostructures.
TEACHING: General Physics; Physics Laboratory; PhD (4) & Master (12) student supervision.
Grants:
2019-2022: UNIT COORDINATOR in a National Collaboration Project (PRIN) funded by the Italian Ministry of Research. Project title: “Metallic and Semi-metallic 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides”. AMOUNT OF GRANT for my Unit: 80.000 EUR/ 3 years.
2018-2020: TEAM MEMBER in a Future Emerging Technology (FET) Cooperation Project funded by the European Commission, Horizon2020 Program. Project title: “FLASH: Far-infrared Laser Assembled using Silicon Heterostructures”. AMOUNT OF GRANT for my Unit: 60.000 EUR/ 3 years.
2017-2020: PROJECT COORDINATOR of a competitive internal research call of Sapienza University of Rome. Project title: “A Mid-infrared Bloch Surface Wave laser sensor of biological macromolecules” AMOUNT OF GRANT: 45.000 EUR/ 3 years.
2017-2020: UNIT COORDINATOR in a National Collaboration Project (PRIN) funded by the Italian Ministry of Research. Project title: “Plasmon-enhanced vibrational circular dichroism”. AMOUNT OF GRANT for my Unit: 101.900 EUR/ 3 years.
2015-2017: UNIT COORDINATOR in a Future Emerging Technology (FET) Cooperation Project funded by the European Commission, 7th Framework program FP7. Project title: “GEMINI: Germanium Mid-Infrared Plasmonics for Sensing Applications”. AMOUNT OF GRANT for my Unit: 291.600 EUR/ 3 years.
2010-2014: PROJECT COORDINATOR of a National Young Investigator Grant FIRB Futuro in Ricerca funded by the Italian Ministry of Research. Project title: “Electrodynamics of two-dimensional electron gases for the detection of terahertz radiation”
AMOUNT OF GRANT: 366.000 EUR/ 4 years.
Work Experience:
2014: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory User Proposal, Molecular Foundry, Berkeley, USA. 3-month stay at LBNL in 2014.
2008-2012: POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW at Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology CNR-IFN Rome, Italy. Development of antenna-coupled terahertz microelectronic devices.
2010: ORGANIZATION of the IEEE conference on IR, MM & THz waves in Rome, Italy.
2006-2007: POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW at the Synchrotron Radiation Facility BESSY II - Berlin, Germany, now Helmoltz Zentrum Berlin. Infrared spectroscopy for solid state physics, biology and instrument development.
2005: COMMISSIONING of infrared beamline at Synchrotron ELETTRA Trieste, Italy.
Education:
2001-2005: DOCTORATE in Materials Science at University of Rome "Sapienza". Infrared Spectroscopy of heavily doped perovskites.
2000: STAGE DE MAITRISE at CNRS - Centre de Recherche sur les Tres Basses Temperatures - Grenoble, France. Transport Measurements under high pressures.
1996-2001: PHYSICS STUDIES at Sapienza University of Rome, 110/110 cum laude
Languages spoken: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish.
Appointments:
Member of the Scientific Selection Panel of Helmoltz Zentrum Berlin, Germany, for the evaluation of User Proposals for the Synchrotron BESSY on Condensed Matter Physics
Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the European Training Network TERAAPPS on industrial applications of terahertz technology, coordinated by University of Glasgow, UK.
Research Associate at the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, Rome, Italy (CNR-IFN), with access to the clean-room nanofabrication facility.
Research Associate at the Center for Life NanoScience, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT),
Member of the Steering Committee of the “Plasmonica” Workshop series
Six times Member of the Program Committee of the IEEE International Conf. “IRMMW-THz”
Invited and Keynote Talks:
· IEEE Conf. on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) 2019 Paris, France “Spectroscopic Evidence of Bloch Surface Waves in the Mid Infrared”
· PIERS 2019 Photonics and Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Rome, Italy “Second Harmonic Generation in the Mid-IR by p-doped Germanium Quantum Wells on Silicon”
· NanoPlasm 2018: Frontiers in Plasmonics and Nanophotonics, Cetraro, Italy “All-semiconductor Components for Plasmon-enhanced Silicon Photonics”.
· IEEE Conf. on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) 2017 Cancun, MX “Integrated Germanium-on-Silicon Waveguides For Mid-Infrared Photonic Sensing Chips”.
· European conference on Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP) 2016 Davos, Switzerland “Coupling of terahertz radiation to two-dimensional plasmons in a resonant cavity”
· New Synchrotron Radiation Optical Techniques 2015: from Single Molecules to Cells, ICTP, Trieste, Italy “Tip-enhanced infrared nanospectroscopy of a single biomolecular layer”
· 4th Russia–Japan–USA Symposium on Fundamental and Applied Problems of Terahertz Devices & Technologies, Chernogolovka, Russia, June 2015. “Intrinsic hydrodynamic nonlinearity of a two-dimensional electron gas”
· IEEE Conf. on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) 2012 Australia “Dark and Bright Surface Plasmon Resonances for Mid-Infrared Sensing”
· SPIE Photonics West “Quantum sensing nanophotonic devices” San Francisco, USA 2011 “Monolithic Focal Plane Arrays for Terahertz Active Imaging”
Gordon Conference on Superconductivity, Les Diablerets (Switzerland) 2007 “Infrared Investigation of the Superconducting State of p-doped Diamond and Related Materials”