Invited Talks at International Conferences 

1.      (Invited talk) Pulsed laser deposition of oxide and metallic thin films by means of Nd:YAG laser source operating at its first harmonics: recent approaches and advances, SPIE High-Power Laser Ablation Conference, Santa Fe (USA), 2024.

2.      (Invited talk) Enabling Direct-ARPES on nanostructured quantum materials grown by Dual-PLD, IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference NMDC, Paestum (Italy), 2023.

3.      (Keynote speaker) Crafting the structure of material for tailoring their quantum properties: the case of anatase TiO2 thin films, 50th Meeting of the Italian Crystallographic Association, Bologna (Italy), 2023.

4.      (Invited talk) Synthesis and advanced characterization of quantum materials by synchrotron techniques – An all-in-situ open-access platform, MRS Spring Meeting: Symposium Harnessing functional defects in energy and electronic materials, Honolulu (USA), 2022.

5.      (Invited talk) Thin-film technology for tailoring quantum devices: the case of anatase TiO2, National Conference on Functional Materials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications, Aligarh (India), 2022.

6.      (Invited talk) Probing and controlling the electronic properties of anatase TiO2 thin films: from bulk electronic states to surface 2DEG, 9th International Conference on Electroceramics, Lausanne (Switzerland), 2019.

7.      (Invited talk) Pulsed Laser Deposition enabling Direct-ARPES experiments on thin films and heterostructures, Workshop on Technologically relevant quantum materials, Trieste (Italy), 2016.

8.      (Invited talk) Coexistence of high metallicity and orbital order in A-site manganites, XI International Conference of Nanostructured Materials, Rhodes (Greece), 2012.

9.      (Invited talk) Mn2+-doping as novel approach for manganite compounds: new scenario for hopping mechanisms in strongly correlated electrons systems, Emerging Trends in Advanced Correlated Materials, Capri (Italy), 2010.

10.   (Invited talk) Enhanced transport properties in LaxMnO3-d thin films grown on SrTiO3 substrates, SPIE Photonic West – Oxide Based Materials and Devices, San Francisco (USA), 2010.

11.    (Invited talk) MgB2 films, fibers and heterostructures grown by an innovative Hybrid Physical Chemical Vapor Deposition technique, CIMTEC 2006 - "4th Forum on New Materials", Acireale (Italy), 2006.

Oral Presentations at International Conferences

1.   Spin-textured topological surface state on Bi2Se3 thin films grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition: impact of the substrates onto the surface structural properties, Conference MATERIALS.it, Catania (Italy), 2016.

2.   Spin-resolved angular-resolved photo-emission spectroscopy experiments on epitaxial Bi2Se3 thin films grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition, 3rd Conference on Superconductivity and Functional Oxides, Torino (Italy), 2016.

3.   Unified and universal electron/hole doped normal-state phase diagram ruled by spin-fluctuation phenomena, 2nd Conference on Superconductivity and Functional Oxides, Roma (Italy), 2014.

4.   Spin fluctuations regime extended up to room temperature in electron doped cuprates, MAMA Trend International Conference, Sorrento (Italy), 2013.

5.   Role of multiple electronic-valence elements in A-site manganites, XCVIII National Congress of Italian Physical Society (SIF), Napoli (Italy), 2012.

6.   Multiple electronic-valence elements in A-site perovskite manganites: a route to high metallicity and an orbital order coexistence, 1st Conference on Superconductivity and Functional Oxides, Como (Italy), 2012.

7.   Multiple valence Mn-ions as novel approach for doping oxide manganites, MAMA workshop: Probe and Theory, Vietri sul Mare (Italy), 2012.

8.   In-plane anisotropy in the magnetic/transport properties and role of quantum interference effects in low-temperature resistivity measurements of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 ultra-thin films, 13th International Conference on Oxide Electronics "WOE", Ischia (Italy), 2006.

9.    Ultrathin manganite films obtained by Molecular Beam Epitaxy, 2nd THIOX topical meeting, Santa Margherita Ligure (Italy), 2005.

10.  Multilayers of MgB2 and barrier materials for Josephson Junctions, Applied Superconductivity Conference, Jacksonville, FL (U.S.A.), 2004.

Numbers of Invited Seminars at international/national universities and/or research institutions such as Argonne National Laboratory (U.S.A.), Temple University (U.S.A.), Technical University of Denmark (Denmark), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), Technical University of Munich (Germany) and others.