Research Activities

• Light scattering by single particles -> Single Paricle Extinction and Scattering (SPES) method

Study of nano and microparticles in environmental, biological, industrial gas and liquid suspensions and emulsions

• Light scattering from dust in Antarctic ice cores -> OPTICE <-> EUROCOLD

Contributions to the 106th SIF Conference, 2020:

A light scattering pathway for characterizing dust content in ice cores

Optical characterization of mineral dust with digital inline holography

• Light scattering from airborne dust -> PI of the OPTAIR project, funded by the National Program of Antarctic Research (PNRA)

-> PI of the GAIA project, funded by the Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta

Contribution to the 106th SIF Conference, 2020:

Optical properties of airborne dust in Antarctica

• X-ray beam characterization -> In collaboration with CERN - Geneva, ALBA Barcellona

-> SPARC - FLAME

• PROTEINS: early stages of protein crystallization -> In collaboration with Dominique Maes (VUB, Bruxelles)

Feasibility studies for ESA projects currently on going

Realization of breadboard validators for implementing optical methods in space -> In collaboration with ESA

• Complex fluids out of thermodynamic equilibrium

COLLOID: formation of colloidal structures

On the Space Station in 2010

(https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/1267.html)

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