About me
I am skilled in developing luminescent materials for cultural heritage dating, imaging, biomedical applications, and detectors for high energy physics.
My Master Thesis was devoted to archeological luminescence dating. During my PhD and Postdoc fellowship at the University Milano-Bicocca I focused my study on nanomaterials for photonics, scintillation applications, and oncological therapies. I acquired a solid background in the field of steady state and time resolved photo– and radioluminescence of nanomaterials; specifically, I became an expert in the luminescence of inorganic nanoparticles, like HfO2. I acquired know-how in correlation of the luminescence of nanomaterials with their morphological and structural characteristics. Moreover, I spent one year as Postdoc at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid where I applied my expertise on luminescent nanoparticles to the biomedical field, particularly for in vitro/in vivo imaging, being supported by interdisciplinary teams.
At present, I am focusing my investigations on hybrid nanomaterials and composites as scintillators for fast timing radiation detection. From 2021 I am working as a research fellow in the framework of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Widening Fellowship (MSCA-WF) on the HANSOME project by the Fyzikalni Ustav AV CR V.V.I (FZU) of Prague. HANSOME project can represent a fundamental step forward towards significant advances in technologies for ionizing radiation detection, by the development of composite nanoscintillators based on hafnium oxide with fast timing properties suitable in the fields of high-energy particles detection and medical diagnosis (such as in time-of-flight PET tomography).