Group Leaders
Stefano Bonetti
Education: Engineering Physics B.Sc. from Politecnico di Milano in 2004 and M.Sc. from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2006. Ph.D. in Materials Physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2011. Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Physics at Stanford University 2012 - 2014.
From 2014 to 2024 faculty at the Department of Physics at Stockholm University (tenured since 2017) . Since 2018 tenured faculty at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where is Full Professor since 2022.
Riccardo Piccoli
Education: Electronics Engineering B.Sc. (2009) and M. Sc. (2011) from University of Pavia (Italy). Ph.D. in laser technology from University of Pavia in 2014. Postdoctoral Fellow at INRS-EMT Research Center (Canada) 2015 - 2020. Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) 2020 - 2022. Researcher at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), 2022-2023.
From January 2024 Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Research Associates
Matteo Pancaldi
Education: B.Sc. (2011) and M.Sc. (2013) in Physics from the University of Bologna. Ph.D. from the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU in 2018, in collaboration with CIC nanoGUNE. Postdoctoral Fellow at Stockholm University 2018 – 2020 and at Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste 2020 - 2022.
Since 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
PhD Students
Carlo Alberto Brondin
Education: B.Sc. in Chemistry (2018) and M.Sc. in Science and Technology of Bio and Nanomaterials (2020) from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Since 2020, Ph.D. student in a joint Chemistry doctorate program between the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the University of Trieste.
Kasturie Jatkar
Education: B.Sc from Shiv Nadar University in 2018 and M.Sc from Uppsala University in 2020. Since 2020 Ph.D. students at the Department of Physics at Stockholm University.
Nupur Khatu
Education: B.Sc.-M.Sc. dual degree from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India in 2020. Since 2021, Ph.D. student at the department of Molecular Science and Nanosystems at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.