Invited Speakers
Prof. Costanza MilianiCostanza Miliani received her PhD (1999) in Chemical Sciences from the University of Perugia, and her Executive Master of Business Administration (2019) in Management of Research Infrastructures from the University Degli Studi Milano-Bicocca. She is author of more than 140 papers concerning the chemistry-physics of materials relevant to cultural heritage (H index= 43, more than 5000 citations, from Google Scholar), co-editor of the volume "Science and Art. The painted surface" published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and on the editorial board of the open access journal "Heritage".
Principal Investigator of regional, national and European research projects in the Heritage Science field, Costanza Miliani is currently coordinator of the European MOLAB mobile platform that provides access to non-invasive mobile laboratories for researchers working in Heritage Science and coordinator of the Italian node of E-RIHS (European Research Infrastructure in Heritage Science). She is a member of the board of directors of the SMAArt (Scientific Methodologies applied to Archaeology and Art) Center of Excellence at the University of Perugia and of the scientific committee of the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts at Northwestern University of Chicago. |
Prof. Boris MizaikoffBoris Mizaikoff, born in 1965, received his doctorate in analytical chemistry from the Vienna University of Technology (Austria) in 1996 and qualified as a professor with tenure at the Vienna University of Technology in 2000. Subsequently, he worked at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA) as a faculty member at the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, where he headed the Applied Sensors Laboratory (ASL). Since 2007 he has held a chair at Ulm University heading the Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. He has authored or co-authored more than 350 peer-reviewed publications, 18 patents and numerous invited contributions at scientific conferences. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Erwin Schrödinger Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1997), the Meggers Award of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (2004), the Robert Kellner Lecture Award of the Division of Analytical Chemistry, Eu-ChemS (2009), the Fresenius Lecture of the Society of German Chemists (GDCh) in 2014, or the RSC Emerging Technologies Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2016. In 2017, he received the University/Industry Cooperation Award of Ulm University. In 2019, he was appointed Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
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Prof. Giulio CerulloGiulio Cerullo leads the Ultrafast Spectroscopy group at the Physics Department of POLIMI. He is the recipient of a 2011 ERS Advanced Grant for the STRATUS project. His expertise lays in Ultrafast optics, generation of few-optical-cycle pulses tunable from the visible to the ultraviolet. From 1991 to 1999 he was Staff Researcher with the Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano. · In the years 1995-1996 he was Visiting Scientist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, California, U.S.A.) with a Nato Advanced Research Fellowship, under the supervision of Prof. C.V. Shank. Since July 2011 he is Full professor with the Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano. Research Activity GC’s research activity covers a broad area known as “Ultrafast Optical Science”, and concerns on the one hand pushing our capabilities to generate and manipulate ultrashort light pulses, and on the other hand using such pulses to capture the dynamics of ultrafast events in molecular and solid-state systems. Additional research topics are the applications of ultrafast lasers to microscopy and micro/nanomachining. GC has published more than 400 scientific papers on renowned international journals of high impact factor (including Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Physics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters). These papers have received more than 17000 citations. According to the Scopus his h-index is 68.
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Prof. Giuseppe CompagniniGiuseppe Compagnini is actually full professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Catania and Head of the PhD School in Materials Science and Nanotechnology. In 1993 he got the PhD in Solid State Physics, working at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology on Raman spectroscopy in Rare Earth compounds and semiconductor thin films. He has been post-doc researcher at the Italian National Council for Research (CNR) and at the National Institute for the Physics of Matter. He was also a consultant of ST-Microelectronics. Giuseppe Compagnini is author of more than 200 papers on international peer reviewed journals devoted to the fields of ion-matter interaction, carbon based nanomaterials, plasmonics and optics. He has obtained relevant awards from scientific societies such as the Italian Physical Society (SIF) and the Materials Research Society (MRS) over the past 25 years. Actually, he is editor of the journal “Surfaces and Interfaces” (Elsevier) and Journal of Nanomaterials (Hindawi).In his career, he has explored several fields in materials science and spectroscopy and has gained experience on surface science, nanoscience and the related applications to nanotechnology. His research group is actually involved in the fabrication and modification of nanostructured materials by using laser beams with applications to catalysis and sensing and to the development of novel functional materials for aerospace applications.Giuseppe Compagnini regularly acts as committee member or referee for the selection of faculty members and research projects in Italy as well as for a number of different foreign agencies and governments such as Canada, Germany, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland. He actually collaborates with the European Space Agency (ESA) with selected experiments onboard of the International Space Station.
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Prof. Kareem ElsayadKareem Elsayad heads the Advanced Microscopy team at the Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities (VBCF) in Vienna, Austria, where he and his team develop optical microscopy and spectroscopy techniques that are offered to biologists and medical researchers at a core facility based at VBCF. After a Ph.D. in condensed-matter physics, Kareem’s interests have focused on exploiting light-matter interactions to extract previously inaccessible information from biological systems. His research has broadly contributed to the fields of microscopy, high-resolution optical spectroscopy, and nanophotonics. Kareem currently chairs the EU funded “BioBrillouin” network, whose goal is to bring Brillouin light-scattering spectroscopy closer to applications in life science and medicine.
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Prof. Sergei KazarianSergei Kazarian is full professor of Physical Chemistry at the London Imperial Collage and head of the Vibrational Spectroscopy and Chemical Imaging group in the same University. His principal research interests are advanced vibrational spectroscopy, molecular interactions and materials processing. He develop FTIR spectroscopic chemical imaging methods and apply them to materials characterisation, pharmaceuticals, drug delivery, biomedical samples, microfluidics, high-throughput analysis of dynamic systems, nanostructured materials, forensic science and the analysis of objects of cultural heritage. Moreover, his research interests also include applications of Raman spectroscopy to polymeric and biomedical materials, including depth profiling with confocal Raman microscopy and nanoscale imaging with tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
His current research interests include spectroscopic imaging of live cancer cells and tissues for advancing healthcare diagnostics; He also collaborate closely with neurosurgeons at the Charing Cross Hospital as well as participate in the activities of CLIRSPEC. |