Myself operating the spin-polarized low-energy electron microscope (SPLEEM) at the national center for electron microscopy of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in Berkeley, California (USA).
Welcome to my personal website!
Here you can find information about my scientific interests, my past and present research work, about my education and academic affiliations. Feel free to browse around and let me know if you have any question regarding my work. The thing I like the most is to discuss with colleagues about science and start new collaborations. By the way, make sure you check out my blog Magnetic Times, where I tell about some of the most exciting events I have been at.
Enjoy!
-Roberto-
My Research
The primary goal of my work is to design, prepare and study new magnetic materials systems such as metallic multilayers. Those materials are potentially useful for the development of energy efficient spintronic devices, that is electronic devices exploiting the spin degree of freedom of atoms and electrons in magnetic materials, as in a magnetic hard disk drive. The approach consists in first exploring the intrinsic properties of those materials so to unveil the underneath physics, and then in tailoring such properties in order to make those materials useful for real world applications.
My Vision
Our modern society relies on technology as never before, and it will do it even more in the years to come. This makes it clear that new technological development is pivotal for the sustainability of such a modern society. However, it is not possible to have a long-term technological innovation without a constant and continuous scientific exploration. The driving force of my every-day-work is the desire of understanding, which then I hope it can translate in the act of discovering and result in the generation of new knowledge. In that sense, Spintronics is an ideal field of research due to its intrinsic connection between scientific investigation and technological development. The aim is to produce new knowledge in the field on Nanomagnetism and Spintronics which is relevant for the development of a more energy efficient information technology.
About me
I earned a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Marco Finazzi and a M.Sc. in Microelectronics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) of Stockholm (Sweden) under the supervision of Prof. Vladislav Korenivski. Subsequently, I earned my Ph.D. in Physics from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Mathias Kläui. After obtaining my doctoral degree, I moved the the US to join the Group of Prof. Jeffrey Bokor in the EECS Department of the University of California, Berkeley as a post-doctoral researcher.
Currently, I am a Marie Curie fellow (as the recipient of a 2016 Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship – Global Fellowship) at the MSE Department of the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Minor. My current research work in Berkeley takes place at the SPLEEM Lab (NCEM) of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) under the supervision of Dr. Andreas Schmid. The entire project is supervised by Prof. Roland Wiesendanger from the Physics Department of the University of Hamburg (Germany).
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Current work
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Publication record
Currently, my primary occupation is to work on the investigation of magnetic skyrmions in epitaxial metallic multilayers (see the description of the SKDWONTRACK project on the EU portal for more details). The work is carried out at the SPLEEM Lab, in the National Center of Electron Microscopy (NCME) at the Berkeley Lab.
I am the recipient of a 2016 Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship – Global Fellowship from the European Commission. The research project (SKDWONTRACK-748006) involves the collaboration between the University of Hamburg (Primary Institution) and the University of California, Berkeley (Hosting Institution).
So far, I have been the co-author of 14 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (among which: 1 Nano Letters; 1 Physical Review Letters; 1 Physical Review Materials as a Rapid Communication; 1 Scientific Reports; 3 Physical Review B; 2 Applied Physics Letters).
