Profilo
Education - Employment:-Laurea Degree (May 1986) Physics, University of Roma “La Sapienza” (laurea Summa cum laude) Supervisor: Prof. M. Conversi-Student Associate at Cern and Brookhaven National Laboratory (1985 - 1986)-CERN fellow (1987 – 1988) ; Supervisors: Prof. C. Rubbia, M. Ferro-Luzzi-Associate Scientist at Legnaro National Laboratory (1989 – 1992)-Researcher at INFN Sezione di Padova (1993 – 2002 ) -Visiting Scientist at Paul Scherrer Institute ( PSI – Zurich) (1993 – 1994 )-Visiting Scientist at CERN under European Contract provided by Prof. G. Charpak (1996)-1° Researcher at INFN Padova (2002 – 2014)-Associate Professor Padova University ( 2014 )Teaching Experience :-1993 – 2006 Supervisor of Graduate And Undergraduate Student at Padova University , Physics Department-2001 – 2004 Professor of “Physical Principles in Medical Diagnostics “ at Padova University, Physics Department-2010 – 2015 Professor of “Instrumental Techniques in Modern Physics “ at Padova University, Physics DepartmentAchievements :High Energy Physics and Quantum Vacuum :- Experimental search for neutrino decay (CERN) and neutrino oscillation (Brookhaven)-Measurement of the branching ratio of the pion radiative decay ( PSI Zurich)-Search for the double beta decay in Molybdenum ( Gran Sasso Nat. Lab.)-Development of an experiment to measure scattering of light by a magnetic field ( Legnaro Nat. Lab.) -First Measurement of the Casimir Effect in parallel plate configuration (LNL) - Dissipative Effect in Quantum Vacuum ( LNL ) Condensed Matter and Instrumental Physics :-Infrared Emission from crystals under 100 KeV electrons excitation-Study of the infrared emission of Xenon Excimer molecules-Electron tunnelling from liquid – gas interface -Infrared emission from drifting electrons in gas under electric field-Development of purification technique for gaseous and liquid materials-Realization of a High pressure Xenon Time Projection Chamber for medical application-Study of anomalous solubility of Xenon in liquid Argon environment -Photon Polarization Study from thin metallic wire-High Voltage Generation through Laser systemPresent Fields of research :-Experimental study of the thermal correction to the Casimir effect in parallel plate configuration - Experimental search for vacuum dissipation via photon creation in a resonant microwave . Cavity-Optical Activated Media for Particle Detection -Axion Dark Matter Search through Ferrimagnetic Resonance-Microwave and THz generation via Non Linear Optical Pumping-Study of electronic parameters of low temperature growing GaAs at cryogenic temperature