Markus R. Wagner
Markus R. Wagner works as department head for semiconductor spectroscopy at the Paul Drude Institute for solid state electronics and research group leader at the institute of solid state physics at the Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin). His research interest spans over a wide field including wide bandgap semiconductor nanostructures, nanoscale thermal transport, nanophotonics, non-linear, near-field and ultrafast spectroscopy.
Mads Weber
Mads Weber, Maître de Conférences (Assistant Professor) at Le Mans Université and researcher at IMMM, investigates materials with strongly coupled physical properties such as magnetism, ferroelectricity, and structural distortions. His work spans both bulk materials and confined structures, including domain walls, thin films, and heterostructures. By utilizing advanced Raman scattering and non-linear optical techniques, Mads seeks to deepen the understanding of nanoscale phenomena and to push the limits of these methods for exploring complex material behaviors.
Leonetta Baldassarre
Leonetta Baldassarre is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics of Sapienza University, where she was the PI of the SIR project MINDS (Mid-Infrared Naonospectroscopy with Doped Semiconductors). She has exploited infrared spectroscopy to assess diverse scientific topics, from the study of low-energy electrodynamics in solids to plasmonic approaches in the mid-infrared for nano-spectroscopy and sensing. Lately, she has been focused on developing Raman spectroscopy setups with excitation in the infrared to study electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions in 2D materials.
Francesco Mauri
Francesco Mauri is Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics at University of Rome Sapienza. His activity focuses on the prediction of the physical properties of complex materials using first-principles electronic structure methods and on the development of original theories, methods, and algorithms to treat interacting electrons and phonons. His main intrests are: amorphous materials, simulation of spectroscopies, lectron-phonon interaction and phonon mediated superconductivity; carbon nanotubes, graphene and 2D materials; anharmonicity, phonon-phonon interaction, CDW and thermal conduction; mineral-physics and geochemistry.
Michele Di Foggia
Graduated in chemistry cum laude in 2004, Michele Di Foggia received his PhD in Medical Biotechnology research in 2008, and then he has been studying the chemical and biochemical properties of biomaterials as Post-Doc doctoral researcher at the Department of Biochemistry (now DIBINEM). Since 2023 he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences of the University of Bologna He’s author of more than 70 publications on international peer-rewieved journal and of about 80 communications at national and international congresses.
Pietro Marabotti
Pietro Marabotti completed his doctoral thesis at Politecnico di Milano in energy and nuclear science and, as part of an International Postdoctoral Fellowship, works with Sebastian Heeg at HU Berlin’s Department of Physics in the field of material science, conducting research into carbynes. Marabotti and Heeg investigate how the properties of carbynes can be leveraged for use in optoelectronic devices.
Matteo Masino
Since november 2001, Matteo Masino has been a researcher in chemical physics at the Dipartimento di Chimica Generale ed Inorganica, Chimica Analitica e Chimica Fisica of the Università degli Studi di Parma. The scientific activity can be rationalized in the field of the physical-chemistry of the solid state and of materials. He has been working in the field of semiconducting molecular materials for opto-electronic applications; and in the field of charge-transfer systems: focusing on their optical and structural properties, and in particular on the effect of their peculiar electron-phonon interactions.
Claudia Conti
Claudia Conti has a PhD in Materials Engineering and is a senior Researcher at the Institute of Heritage Science (ISPC) of the National Research Council (CNR). Her research interests are focused on the development of advanced non-invasive Raman methods and their application to Cultural Heritage materials. She is coordinating the Raman Spectroscopy Laboratory at ISPC.