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 Department



Achievements :

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 system


Present 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