Welcome to my personal page. I am Gianluca Galeotti a Field Service Engineer at SPECS in Berlin, Germany. Before starting my engineering career I was a postdoctoral researcher, working on organic nanomaterials with reliable properties and a facile synthesis, with the goal of introducing them into commercial technological devices.
Passionate about science, I do believe that it has to be the driving-force to make the world a better place. I like to define myself as curious, creative and methodical. My love for materials science was born in Rome under the supervision of G. Contini and exploded in Montreal while working with F. Rosei and D. Perepichka. My fascination with engineering developed in Munich under the supervision of M. Lackinger, where I had the chance to tackle a scientific problem from the point of view of instrument developing, project managing and mechanical assembling of complex parts.
I'm now in charge of the test, installation and repair of various instrument lines at SPECS, as well as remote support to both ensure the correct functioning of the instrument and to guide them to take the most out of their techniques.
2022-03-30
New work just accepted in Chemistry!
Find it here how the RaDeS (Radical Deposition Source) project is evolving. In this new work we showed how in can be used in combination with surface passivation to modify the reaction progression of the deposited biradical, in order to obtain graphene nanoribbons.
2022-06-16
Update: The article has been chosen for the issue front cover!
2021-09-03
Our Small paper is finally out!
Find it here how we observed and modeled two different reaction mechanisms for the on-surface Ullmann coupling of halobenzenes on Cu(110). While precursors with Br and Cl halogens follows a diffusive nucleation and growth process, iodine terminated diiodobenzene follows a topotactic mechanism, which can be described by a 1D Kolmogorov–Johnson–Mehl–Avrami model.
2020-10-30
The press release for my latest Angew. Chemie paper is out!
Find it here how we realized a radical deposition source (RaDeS) to facilitate the polymer growth in on‐surface synthesis, opening a way to directly realize conductive polymeric layers on inert surfaces.
The article PDF can be found here:
English version
German version
2020-08-01
The issue 19(8) of Nature Materials, featuring my work on the front cover is out!
The article PDF can be found here, the work was also choosen for a News & Views, published in the same issue.