Present position:
Research Director at CNR-SPIN, Rome (Italy)
Employment/Post-graduation scientific career:
2023-present: Research Director
2021-2022: Senior Researcher
2021-2030: National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor (according to the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research)
2019: Visiting Scientist, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering, New York (USA)
2012-2018: Deputy Director of CNR-SPIN for the work sites in Rome, Tor Vergata and La Sapienza
2017: Visiting Scientist, City College & Advanced Science Research Center, New York (USA)
2016: Visiting Scientist, City College & Advanced Science Research Center, New York (USA)
2013: Visiting Scientist, Oak-Ridge National Laboratory, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (USA)
2012: Visiting Scientist, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Physics, Atlanta (USA)
2012-2021: Staff researcher, CNR-SPIN, Rome (Italy)
2006-2012: Staff researcher, CNR-SPIN, Naples (Italy)
2004-2006:Tenure track researcher, Center for Research and Development CNR-INFM Coherentia, Rome (Italy)
2003 – 2004: University fellowship, Physics Department of University of Salerno (Italy)
2002– 2003: Temporary position as Researcher, CNR- IMEM, Parma (Italy)/Scientific Manager of the "European Network for Superconductivity"
2001–2002: Visiting Scientist, ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility), Grenoble (France)
2000 – 2001: INFM fellowship for Research, University of Tor Vergata, Rome (Italy)
1998 – 2000: Post-doc position, ID32 beamline, ESRF(European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) Grenoble (France)
1996 – 1998: PhD research activity in Condensed Matter Physics, University of Naples (Italy)
1995 – 1996: Grant of CNR-FSE (European Structural Fund), University of Tor Vergata and La Sapienza, Rome (Italy)
1992 – 1995: Grant of PNMA(National Plan for Innovative Advanced Materials), CRIS and INFM, Naples (Italy)
Recent scientific activities:
Interface properties of 2D materials
Ion conducting materials for energy applications
Electronic properties of cuprates (mainly infinite layers) and manganites by synchrotron spectroscopic techniques
Scientific production:
> 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals with about 4500 citations, h-index 34
> 70 seminars, invited and contributed talks and seminars at international conferences and Universities or Institutes worldwide