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Giacomo INSERO

Ruolo attuale:: Ricercatore Legge 240/10 a tempo determinato
SSD:: PHYS-06/A - Fisica per le scienze della vita, l'ambiente e i beni culturali
Afferenza organizzativa:: Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Sperimentali e Cliniche 'Mario Serio'

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Giacomo INSERO

Curriculum

Nato il 24 Maggio 1988

Cittadinanza italiana

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0992-2434

POSIZIONE ATTUALE

Settembre 2022–Presente: Ricercatore (RTDa), Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche Sperimentali e Cliniche "Mario Serio", Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italia
Principali attività: ricerca, insegnamento e attività di supporto agli studenti per il settore scientifico-disciplinare FIS/07
Focus della ricerca: fisica medica, con enfasi sull'uso innovativo di radiazioni ottiche non ionizzanti per scopi diagnostici e terapeutici

POSIZIONI PRECEDENTI

Aprile 2022–Settembre 2022: PostDoc, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche Sperimentali e Cliniche "Mario Serio", Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italia
Principali attività: caratterizzazione delle proprietà ottiche di campioni biologici mediante sorgenti di luce coerente ed incoerente
Febbraio 2021–Marzo 2022: Postdoc, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM), Torino, Italia
Principali attività: studio di microrisonatori ottici cristallini per la stabilizzazione di laser mid-IR utilizzati per applicazioni di telecomunicazione e rilevamento gas. Assemblaggio e test di una nuova sorgente molecolare di tipo “buffer-gas” per esperimenti di raffreddamento laser di molecole
Settembre 2019–Febbraio 2021: PostDoc, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-INO), Sesto F.no, Italia
Principali attività: progettazione di un nuovo esperimento di raffreddamento “buffer-gas” per la produzione di un fascio continuo di molecole fredde
Aprile 2018–Settembre 2019: Project Officer, European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC), Karlsruhe, Germania.
Principale attività: sviluppo di un dispositivo laser compatto per una rilevazione rapida, affidabile ed in loco di radiocarbonio nei rifiuti nucleari basata sulla tecnica di cavity-ring-down spectroscopy
Gennaio 2017–Aprile 2018: PostDoc, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-INO) e Laboratorio Europeo per la Spettroscopia Non Lineare (LENS), Sesto Fiorentino, Italia
Principale attività: studio di fattibilità e progettazione di una trappola ottica per molecole di monossido di carbonio nello stato fondamentale

ISTRUZIONE

Novembre 2013–Marzo 2017: Dottorato di Ricerca in International Doctorate in Atomic and Molecular Photonics, Laboratorio Europeo per la Spettroscopia Non Lineare (LENS), Sesto Fiorentino, Italia
Titolo della tesi: High precision frequency measurement on a CO molecular beam using a 6 µm coherent source referenced to a fibre-delivered absolute standard
Novembre 2013-Giugno 2014 Visiting PhD: Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlino, Germania
Settembre 2010–Ottobre 2013: Laurea Magistrale in Fisica e Astrofisica (110/110 e lode), Università di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino, Italia
Titolo della tesi: Nuovo apparato sperimentale per lo studio della miscela di atomi ultrafreddi di Potassio e Rubidio
Giugno 2013–Ottobre 2013: borsa di ricerca, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-INO), Sesto Fiorentino, Italia.
Settembre 2007–Ottobre 2010: Laurea Triennale in Fisica (110/110 e lode), Università di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino, Italia
Titolo della tesi: Realizzazione di un nuovo apparato sperimentale per il raffreddamento di un fascio atomico di Itterbio

Altre scuole

Agosto 2022: European Society for Photobiology: 6th ESP Photobiology School, Bressanone, Italia
Ottobre 2018: EURATOM Coordination and Support Action ANNETTE: Nuclear Fuel, from Cradle to Grave, Karlsruhe, Germania
Maggio 2015: International Spring School on Cold Atoms and Molecules & Application in Metrology - CAMAM2015, Cartagine, Tunisia

SKILLS

Computer

Matematica: IgorPro, Origin, Matlab e Mathematica
Programmazione: C, C++, Phyton
Sistemi operativi: Linux (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Raspbian), Mac OS, Windows OS
FPGA e microcontrollori: Arduino, Red Pitaya
Altro: LabVIEW (certificazioni National Instruments LabView Core 1+2+3), COMSOL, SOLIDWORKS, ZEMAX OpticStudio, LTSpice

Lingue

Italiano: madrelingua
Inglese: avanzato
Tedesco: base

Corsi Soft-Skills

Cybersecurity, Handling Sensitive Non-Classified Information, Effective Intercultural Communication, Perfect Timing, Real Brainstorming Techniques to Solve any Problem, Facilitation Skills, Project Management, Coaching, Presentation Skills, Unconscious Bias, Conflict Resolution (tutti presso Joint Research Center- Commissione Europea, Karlsruhe, Germania)

Altre competenze

Realizzazione di sorgenti ottiche custom per esperimenti in vivo, ex vivo e in vitro
Progettazione e lavorazione meccanica
Progettazione e realizzazione di schede elettroniche
Stampa 3D e biostampa 3D
Sviluppo di modelli teorici

PREMI

Vincitore del concorso "Three Minute Research" Bright-Night, Firenze, Italia (2022), premio di €1000
Superato con successo il COM/1/2015/GFIV-Research Competency Test of the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO, 2018)
Miglior poster e premi per la miglior presentazione alla International Spring School on Cold Atoms and Molecules and Application in Metrology (CAMAM2015), Cartagine, Tunisia (2015)
Studente assistente presso il Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Firenze, Italia (2013)
1° posto alle Olimpiadi Regionali di Fisica per la Toscana per due anni consecutivi (2005-2006)
Convocato per la competizione Nazionale delle Olimpiadi della Fisica (2005)
Vincitore di altre competizioni matematiche e fisiche

INSEGNAMENTO

Misure elettriche ed elettroniche: laurea triennale, 3 CFU, dal 2023
Fisica Generale 1: laurea triennale, 6 CFU, dal 2022
Elettronica e strumentazione per indagini biomediche: laurea triennale, 3 CFU, dal 2022
Spettroscopia: studenti di dottorato presso LENS-Laboratorio Europeo per la Spettroscopia Non Lineare, 3 CFU, 2020

MEMBERSHIPS

OPTICA-OSA, European Society of Photobiology (ESP), Società Italiana di Biofisica Pura e Applicata (SIBPA), Società Italiana di FotoBiologia (SIFB), Associazione Italiana Fisica Medica (AIFM)

COINVOLGIMENTO IN PROGETTI RECENTI

EndoLight: Light-Emitting Endoscope for the Treatment of H. Pylori, Regione Toscana, 2022–23
Light4Lungs: Aerosol light source for controlling bacterial lung infections, Horizon 2020 FET OPEN RIA, 2019-2024
SAVES US: Suppression of Airborne Viral Epidemic Spread by Ultraviolet Light Barriers, Regione Toscana, 2022-2024
Tuscany Health Ecosystem (THE), Ministero italiano dell'Università e della Ricerca, 2022-2025

CONFERENZE
Presentazioni poster: 11; presentazioni orali: 19 ( 5 presentazioni orali più significative elencate di seguito)

IPA: International Photodynamic Association, 18th World Congress, Tampere (FI), 2023 (su invito)
ESP: European Society of Photobiology, 20th Congress, Lione(FR), 2023
AIFM: Italian Association of Medical Physics, XII National Congress, Firenze (IT), 2023
CLEO: Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics, San Jose (USA), 2022
SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco (USA), 2017

Organizzazione di eventi scientifici

Membro del team organizzativo della "Italian Quantum Week—Firenze," Firenze, Italia (2022)

VOLONTARIATO

Movimento internazionale della Croce Rossa e Mezzaluna Rossa dal 2017: servizi di emergenza in ambulanza e protezione civile CMRT (colonna mobile della Regione Toscana)

Giacomo INSERO

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Tesi di Dottorato

Insero, Giacomo; Mercatelli, Luca; Cimmino, Cristina; Donato, Roberto Gaetano; Romano, Giovanni; Fusi, Franco; Guasti, Andrea (2024). Risks associated with laser radiation reflections in a healthcare environment: a surface reflectance study in the range 250 nm – 25 μm. HEALTHCARE IN LOW-RESOURCE SETTINGS, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2281-7824 DOI

Eramo, Roberto; Sorgi, Alessia; Gabbrielli, Tecla; Insero, Giacomo; Cappelli, Francesco; Consolino, Luigi; De Natale, Paolo (2024). Metrology of frequency comb sources: assessing the coherence, from multimode to mode-locked operation. NANOPHOTONICS, vol. 0, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2192-8606 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Treghini, Chiara; Insero, Giacomo; Dell'Accio, Alfonso; Micieli, Maria; Riccobono, Eleonora; Valzano, Felice; Fusi, Franco; Rossolini, Gian Maria; Pallecchi, Lucia; Romano, Giovanni (2024). In vitro photoinactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus biofilm by a novel multi-dose LED-based illumination method. PHOTODIAGNOSIS AND PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY, vol. 46, pp. 0-0, ISSN:1572-1000 DOI

Siciliani de Cumis, Mario; Insero, Giacomo; Wang, Zhen; Consolino, Luigi; De Natale, Paolo; Borri, Simone; Cappelli, Francesco (2024). Fully stabilized quantum cascade laser frequency comb by RF injection and frequency locking to a crystalline microresonator. In: SPIE OPTO 2024, San Francisco, California, USA, SPIE, pp. 0-0. DOI

Insero, Giacomo; Cappelli, Francesco; Siciliani de Cumis, Mario; Pelini, Jacopo; Gabbrielli, Tecla; Marschick, Georg; Weih, Robert; Koeth, Johannes; Höfling, Sven; Strasser, Gottfried; De Natale, Paolo; Hinkov, Borislav; Borri, Simone (2024). Excess frequency noise in interband cascade lasers: towards narrower-linewidth operation. In: SPIE OPTO 2024, San Francisco, California, USA, SPIE, pp. 0-0. DOI

Bartalini S.; Mazzotti D.; Insero G.; Inguscio M.; De Natale P. (2023). Laser based detection of 14CO2 in radioactive waste. NUOVO CIMENTO DELLA SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI FISICA. C, GEOPHYSICS AND SPACE PHYSICS, vol. 46, pp. 0-0, ISSN:1826-9885 DOI

Giacomo INSERO, Francesco GARZELLA, Guido TOCI, Barbara PATRIZI, Giovanni ROMANO, Franco FUSI, (2023). A new 222nm-Illuminator for the suppression of airborne viral epidemic spread. PHOTODIAGNOSIS AND PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY, vol. 41, pp. 0-0, ISSN:1572-1000 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Gabbrielli, Tecla; Insero, Giacomo; De Regis, Michele; Corrias, Nicola; Galli, Iacopo; Mazzotti, Davide; Bartolini, Paolo; Hyun Huh, Jeong; Cleff, Carsten; Kastner, Alexander; Holzwarth, Ronald; Borri, Simone; Consolino, Luigi; De Natale, Paolo; Cappelli, Francesco (2023). Time/frequency-domain characterization of a mid-IR DFG frequency comb via two-photon and heterodyne detection. OPTICS EXPRESS, vol. 31, pp. 35330-35342, ISSN:1094-4087 DOI

Giovanni Agati, Franco Fusi, Giacomo Insero, Barbara Patrizi, Angela Pirri, Mauro Pistello, Simona Pollini, Ilaria Baccani, Sara Cuffari, Paola Quaranta, Giovanni Romano, Francesca Rossi, Giovanni Scirè, Guido Toci, Matteo Vannini (2023). Suppression of airborne viral epidemic spread by UVC light barriers. In: EUROPEAN CONFERENCES ON BIOMEDICAL OPTICS, SPIE, vol. Proc SPIE 12627, pp. 0-0. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Insero G.; Fusi F.; Romano G. (2023). The safe use of lasers in biomedicine: Principles of laser-matter interaction. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH, vol. 12, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2279-9036 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

GARZELLA, Francesco; INSERO, Giacomo; TOCI, Guido; PATRIZI, Barbara; ROMANO, Giovanni; FUSI, Franco (2023). SAVES US: suppression of airborne viral epidemic spread by ultraviolet light barriers. PHOTODIAGNOSIS AND PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY, vol. 41, pp. 0-0, ISSN:1572-1000 DOI

Delli Santi, Maria Giulia; Insero, Giacomo; Bartalini, Saverio; Cancio, Pablo; Carcione, Federico; Galli, Iacopo; Giusfredi, Giovanni; Mazzotti, Davide; Bulgheroni, Antonio; Martinez Ferri, Ana Isabel; Alvarez-Sarandes, Rafael; Aldave de Las Heras, Laura; Rondinella, Vincenzo; De Natale, Paolo (2022). Precise radiocarbon determination in radioactive waste by a laser-based spectroscopic technique. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, vol. 119, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0027-8424 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Romano G.; Insero G.; Marrugat S.N.; Fusi F. (2022). Innovative light sources for phototherapy. BIOMOLECULAR CONCEPTS, vol. 13, pp. 256-271, ISSN:1868-503X DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Insero, G.; Wang, Z.; Borri, S.; Consolino, L.; De Natale, P.; de Cumis, M.S.; Cappelli, F. (2022). Full Stabilization of a Quantum Cascade Laser Frequency Comb via Radiofrequency Injection and Frequency Locking to a Crystalline Microresonator. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Optica Publishing Group, pp. 0-0. DOI

Borri, S; de Cumis, MS; Insero, G; Viciani, S; D'Amato, F; De Natale, P (2020). Narrow-linewidth Interband-Cascade Lasers for high-resolution spectroscopy. In: SPIE OPTO, SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, vol. 11301, pp. 0-0, ISBN:9781510633650 DOI

de Cumis, Mario Siciliani; Borri, Simone; Insero, Giacomo; Viciani, Silvia; D’Amato, Francesco; De Natale, Paolo (2020). Frequency noise of Interband Cascade Lasers. In: OSA High-brightness Sources and Light-driven Interactions Congress 2020, Optica Publishing Group, pp. 0-0, ISBN:978-1-943580-73-6 DOI

D'Ambrosio, D; Borri, S; Calonico, D; Clivati, C; De Natale, P; De Pas, M; Insero, G; Levi, F; Verde, M; Santambrogio, G (2020). A QCL-based metrological-grade source at 6 um. APPLIED PHYSICS. B, LASERS AND OPTICS, vol. 126, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0946-2171 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Borri S.; Insero G.; Santambrogio G.; Mazzotti D.; Cappelli F.; Galli I.; Galzerano G.; Marangoni M.; Laporta P.; Di Sarno V.; Santamaria L.; Maddaloni P.; De Natale P. (2019). High-precision molecular spectroscopy in the mid-infrared using quantum cascade lasers. APPLIED PHYSICS. B, LASERS AND OPTICS, vol. 125, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0946-2171 DOI

D{'}Ambrosio, D.; Borri, S.; Verde, M.; Borgognoni, A.; Insero, G.; De Natale, P.; Santambrogio, G. (2019). Approaching the transit time limit for high-precision spectroscopy on metastable CO around 6 um. PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, vol. 21, pp. 24506-24511, ISSN:1463-9076 DOI

de Cumis, MS; Borri, S; Insero, G; Viciani, S; D'Amato, F; Garcia, IL; Santambrogio, G; D'Ambrosio, D; Savchenkov, A; Eliyahu, D; Ilchenko, V; Matsko, A; Maleki, L; De Natale, P (2018). Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators for mid-IR Quantum and Interband Cascade Laser analysis and control. In: 20th Conference on Laser Resonators, Microresonators and Beam Control, SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, vol. 10518, pp. 0-0, ISBN:9781510615212 DOI

Siciliani de Cumis, M.; Borri, S.; Insero, G.; Viciani, S.; D'Amato, F.; Amato, L.S.; Lopez Garcia, I.; Santambrogio, G.; D'Ambrosio, D.; Savchenkov, A.; Eliyahu, D.; Ilchenko, V.; Matsko, A.; Maleki, L.; De Natale, P. (2018). Microresonators for Mid-IR Laser Analysis and Control. In: 20th Italian National Conference on Photonic Technologies (Fotonica 2018), IET, pp. 1-3, ISBN:978-1-78561-991-5 DOI

Insero, G; Clivati, C; D'Ambrosio, D; Pastor, PC; Verde, M; Schunemann, PG; Zondy, JJ; Inguscio, M; Calonico, D; Levi, F; De Natale, P; Santambrogio, G; Borri, S (2018). Metrological-grade tunable coherent source in the mid-infrared for molecular precision spectroscopy. In: NONLINEAR FREQUENCY GENERATION AND CONVERSION: MATERIALS AND DEVICES XVII, SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, vol. 10516, pp. 0-0, ISBN:9781510615175 DOI

Borri, Simone; Avino, Saverio; de Cumis, Mario Siciliani; Giorgini, Antonio; Malara, Pietro; Insero, Giacomo; Santambrogio, Gabriele; Savchenkov, Anatoliy; Eliyahu, Danny; Ilchenko, Vladimir; Matsko, Andrey; Maleki, Lute; Gagliardi, Gianluca; De Natale, Paolo (2017). Crystalline and liquid whispering gallery mode resonators for laser stabilization and sensing (Invited). In: 30th Annual Conference of the IEEE-Photonics-Society (IPC), IEEE Photon Soc, pp. 0-0, ISBN:978-1-5090-6578-3 DOI

Borri, S; de Cumis, MS; Insero, G; Santambrogio, G; Savchenkov, A; Eliyahu, D; Ilchenko, V; Matsko, A; Maleki, L; De Natale, P (2017). Whispering Gallery Mode Stabilization of Quantum Cascade Lasers for Infrared Sensing and Spectroscopy. In: SPIE LASE, SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, vol. 10090, pp. 0-0. DOI

Insero, G; Clivati, C; D'Ambrosio, D; De Natale, P; Santambrogio, G; Schunemann, PG; Zondy, JJ; Boni, S (2017). Continuous-wave difference frequency generation in the mid-infrared with orientation-patterned gallium phosphide (OP-GaP) crystals. In: SPIE LASE, SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING, vol. 10088, pp. 0-0. DOI

Insero, G; Clivati, C; D'Ambrosio, D; De Natale, P; Santambrogio, G; Schunemann, PG; Borri, S; Zondy, JJ (2017). Mid-infrared tunable, narrow-linewidth difference-frequency laser based on orientation-patterned gallium phosphide. In: VII International Symposium and Young Scientists School "Modern Problems of Laser Physics", IOP PUBLISHING LTD, vol. 793, pp. 0-0. DOI

Giacomo Insero (2017). HIGH PRECISION FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT ON A CO MOLECULAR BEAM USING A 6 UM COHERENT SOURCE REFERENCED TO A FIBER DELIVERED ABSOLUTE STANDARD. (Tutor: Paolo De Natale)

Insero G.; Borri S.; Calonico D.; Pastor P.C.; Clivati C.; D'Ambrosio D.; De Natale P.; Inguscio M.; Levi F.; Santambrogio G. (2017). Measuring molecular frequencies in the 1-10 μm range at 11-digits accuracy. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 7, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2045-2322 DOI

Borri, Simone; Siciliani de Cumis, Mario; Insero, Giacomo; Bartalini, Saverio; Cancio Pastor, Pablo; Mazzotti, Davide; Galli, Iacopo; Giusfredi, Giovanni; Santambrogio, Gabriele; Savchenkov, Anatoliy; Eliyahu, Danny; Ilchenko, Vladimir; Akikusa, Naota; Matsko, Andrey; Maleki, Lute; De Natale, Paolo (2016). Tunable Microcavity-Stabilized Quantum Cascade Laser for Mid-IR High-Resolution Spectroscopy and Sensing. SENSORS, vol. 16, pp. 0-0, ISSN:1424-8220 DOI

Mario Siciliani de Cumis; Simone Borri; Giacomo Insero; Iacopo Galli; Anatoliy Savchenkov; Danny Eliyahu; Vladimir Ilchenko; Naota Akikusa; Andrey Matsko; Lute Maleki; Paolo De Natale (2016). Microcavity-Stabilized Quantum Cascade Laser. LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS, vol. 10, pp. 153-157, ISSN:1863-8880 DOI

Borri, S; de Cumis, MS; Insero, G; Bartalini, S; Pastor, PC; Mazzotti, D; Galli, I; Giusfredi, G; Santambrogio, G; D'Ambrosio, D; Savchenkov, A; Eliyahu, D; Ilchenko, V; Akikusa, N; Matsko, A; Maleki, L; De Natale, P (2016). Microcavity-Stabilized Quantum Cascade Laser. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), IEEE, pp. 0-0, ISBN:978-1-943580-11-8 DOI

Insero G.; Clivati C.; D'Ambrosio D.; De Natale P.; Santambrogio G.; Schunemann P.G.; Zondy J.-J.; Borri S. (2016). Difference frequency generation in the mid-infrared with orientation-patterned gallium phosphide crystals. OPTICS LETTERS, vol. 41, pp. 5114-5117, ISSN:0146-9592 DOI

Marx, S; Smith, DA; Insero, G; Meek, SA; Sartakov, BG; Meijer, G; Santambrogio, G (2015). Measuring and manipulating the temperature of cold molecules trapped on a chip. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, vol. 92, pp. 063408-1-063408-7, ISSN:1050-2947 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Giacomo INSERO

Curriculum

Born on May 24th, 1988

Italian citizenship

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0992-2434

CURRENT POSITION

September 2022–Present: Researcher (RTDa), Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences "Mario Serio", University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Main activities: research, teaching, supplementary teaching, and student service activities for the FIS/07 scientific-disciplinary sector
Research focus: medical physics, with emphasis on innovative use of non-ionising optical radiation for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

April 2022–September 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences "Mario Serio", University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Main activities: characterization of the optical properties of biological samples using coherent and incoherent sources
February 2021–March 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute for Metrological Research (INRIM), Turin, Italy
Main activities: study of crystalline microresonators for mid-IR laser stabilisation for telecom and gas sensing applications Assembling and testing a novel buffer-gas-cooled molecular source for an innovative laser-based molecular cooling
September 2019–February 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute of Optics - National Research Council (INO-CNR), Sesto F.no, Italy
Main activities: design of a novel method to produce a continuous beam of buffer-gas-cooled molecules
April 2018–September 2019: Project Officer, European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC), Karlsruhe, Germany
Main activity: development of a compact laser-based device for on-site, fast, and reliable detection of radiocarbon in nuclear waste by means of saturated-absorption cavity ring-down spectroscopy
January 2017–April 2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, National Institute of Optics - National Research Council (CNR-INO) and European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Main activity: feasibility study and design of an optical dipole trap for ground-state carbon monoxide molecules

EDUCATION

November 2013–March 2017: Ph.D. in International Doctorate in Atomic and Molecular Photonics, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Thesis title: High precision frequency measurement on a CO molecular beam using a 6 µm coherent source referenced to a fibre-delivered absolute standard
November 2013-June 2014 Visiting PhD student: Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
September 2010–October 2013: Master's Degree in Physics and Astrophysics (110/110 cum laude), University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Thesis title: New experimental apparatus to study the mixture of ultra-cold Potassium and Rubidium atoms
June 2013–October 2013: Internship, National Research Council (CNR-INO), Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
September 2007–October 2010: Bachelor's Degree in Physics (110/110 cum laude), University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Thesis title: Realisation of a new experimental apparatus for the cooling of an atomic beam of Ytterbium

Other schools

August 2022: European Society for Photobiology: 6th ESP Photobiology School, Bressanone, Italy
October 2018: EURATOM Coordination and Support Action ANNETTE: Nuclear Fuel, from Cradle to Grave, Karlsruhe, Germany
May 2015: International Spring School on Cold Atoms and Molecules & Application in Metrology - CAMAM2015, Carthage, Tunisia

SKILLS

Computer

Mathematical packages: IgorPro, Origin, Matlab, and Mathematica
Programming: C, C++, Phyton
OS: Linux (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Raspbian), Mac OS, Windows OS
FPGA and microcontrollers: Arduino, Red Pitaya
Others: LabVIEW (National Instruments LabView Core 1+2+3 certifications), COMSOL, SOLIDWORKS, ZEMAX OpticStudio, LTSpice

Languages

Italian: mother tongue
English: advanced
German: basic

Soft-Skills Courses

Cybersecurity, Handling Sensitive Non-Classified Information, Effective Intercultural Communication, Perfect Timing, Real Brainstorming Techniques to Solve any Problem, Facilitation Skills, Project Management, Coaching, Presentation Skills, Unconscious Bias, Conflict Resolution (all provided by JRC, European Commission, Karlsruhe, Germany)

Other Skills

Realisation of custom optical sources for in vivo, ex vivo, and in vitro experiments
Mechanical design and machining
Electronic board design and realisation
3D printing and 3D bioprinting
Theoretical model development

PRICES

Winner of the Bright-Night "Three Minute Research" competition, Florence, Italy (2022), €1000 prize
Successfully passed the COM/1/2015/GFIV-Research Competency Test of the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO, 2018)
Best poster and best presentation awards at the International Spring School on Cold Atoms and Molecules and Application in Metrology (CAMAM2015), Carthage, Tunisia (2015)
Student Assistant at the Department of Physics, University of Florence, Italy (2013)
1st place at the Regional Physics Olympic Games for two years (2005-2006)
Participant in the National Physics Olympic Games Challenge (2005)
Winner of several mathematical and physical competitions

TEACHING

Electrical and electronic measurements: bachelor degree, 3 ECTS, from 2023
General Physics 1: bachelor degree, 6 ECTS, from 2022
Electronics and instrumentation for biomedical investigation: bachelor degree, 3 ECTS, from 2022
Spectroscopy: Ph.D. students at LENS-European Laboratory for NonLinear Spectroscopy, 3 ECTS, 2020

MEMBERSHIPS

OPTICA-OSA, European Society of Photobiology (ESP), Società Italiana di Biofisica Pura e Applicata (SIBPA), Società Italiana di FotoBiologia (SIFB), Italian Medical Physics Association (AIFM)

LAST INVOLVED PROJECTS

EndoLight: Light-Emitting Endoscope for the Treatment of H. Pylori, Tuscany Region, 2022–23
Light4Lungs: Aerosol light source for controlling bacterial lung infections, Horizon 2020 FET OPEN RIA, 2019-2024
SAVES US: Suppression of Airborne Viral Epidemic Spread by Ultraviolet Light Barriers, Tuscany Region, 2022-2024
Tuscany Health Ecosystem (THE), Ministry of University, Italy, 2022-2025

CONFERENCES
Poster presentations: 11; oral presentations: 19 (top 5 oral presentations listed below)

IPA: International Photodynamic Association, 18th World Congress, Tampere (FI), 2023 (invited)
ESP: European Society of Photobiology, 20th Congress, Lyon (FR), 2023
AIFM: Italian Association of Medical Physics, XII National Congress, Florence (IT), 2023
CLEO: Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics, San Jose (USA), 2022
SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco (USA), 2017

Organisation of scientific events

Member of the organisation team of the "Italian Quantum Week—Florence," Florence, Italy (2022)

VOLUNTEERING

International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement since 2017: ambulance emergency services and civil protection CMRT (colonna mobile della Regione Toscana)