Recruitment

Leader: A. Vecchione
 Antonio Vecchione

The Recruitment work package is devoted to the recruitment and the employment of experienced researchers in the thematic area of synthesis, characterization and modelling of multi-functional advanced materials. We will hire eight experienced researchers with competence in the field of complex materials and specifically in the area of synthesis of TMO single crystals, magneto-transport characterization for multifunctional materials, theory and modeling of correlated systems and hetero-structures, transition metal oxides spectroscopic modeling, characterization of organic/inorganic and hybrid thin films, in deposition and characterization of metal transition oxides and hybrid organic/oxide films, photoemission spectroscopy of complex materials, theoretical modeling of nanostructures. Seminars, lectures, monitoring, assessment and studies activities will be carried out by the recruited experienced researcher.


Objectives

To recruit and employ experienced researchers in the thematic area of synthesis, characterization and modelling of multi-functional advanced materials.

Tasks

3.1 Recruitment and support research activities: experienced researcher in the synthesis of TMO single crystals.
Recruited researcher: Rosalba Fittipaldi 

3.2 Recruitment and support research activities: experienced researcher in the field of magneto-transport and structural characterizations for multifunctional materials.
Recruited researcher: Fabio Chiarella 

3.3 Recruitment and support research activities: experienced researcher in the field of correlated systems and hetero-structures.
Recruited researcher: Paola Gentile 

3.4 Recruitment and support research activities: experienced researcher in the area of TMO spectroscopic modeling.
Recruited researcher: Filomena Forte 

3.5 Recruitment and support research activities: experienced researcher for the characterization of organic/inorganic or hybrid thin films.
Recruited researcher: Antonio Ambrosio

3.6 Recruitment and support research activities: experienced researcher with competence in deposition and characterization of metal transition oxides and hybrid organic/oxide films.
Recruited researcher: Gabriella De Luca

3.7 Recruitment and support research activities: experienced researcher in the field of photoemission spectroscopy and surface electron diffraction.
Recruited researcher: Emiliano Di Gennaro

3.8 Recruitment and support research activities: experienced researcher in the field of theoretical modeling of nanostructures.
Recruited researcher: Procolo Lucignano



Procolo Lucignano

Dates: 16 Set 2010 - 15 Set 2011


Main activity: Support and coordination for modeling and study of systems with strong electron correlations, analysis of electonic structure and interfaces.


Activities

  1. Equipment: start-up support activities, tests, procedure optimization, benchmarking (including computational means): support to tests and optimization of computer cluster operational modes. Benchmarking codes for numerical simulation of nanostructures.


  2. Research seminars, tutorials and lectures on fabrication, characterization and computation of multifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: research seminars and tutorial research cases for application of different many-body approaches for analysing physical properties of nanostructures and hybrid systems. Seminars/lectures about general methods for dealing with nanostructures and hybrid systems.


  3. Coordination, support, mentoring and laboratory guidance of research activities about fabrication, characterization and computation of mutifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: coordination and support activities for theoretical research guidance about approaches for electronic and charge/spin transport in nanostructures and electronic properties of hybrid systems.


  4. Support activities for R&D project applications: preparation, team coordination, planning, individuation of specific objectives: coordination and support for project applications in the field of nanostructures and hybrid systems. Support to European project application and for coordination of stragetic partnership with European research groups having high and consolidated reputations in the field of nanostructures and hybrid materials.


  5. Monitoring, management and research guidance for lab procedures (including the lab for compuational targets): support for monitoring, management and research guidance for methodologies of computation of nanostructures, heterostructures, correlated systems and electronic transport.



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Fabio Chiarella

Dates: 14 Mar 2011 - 13 Sep 2012


Main activity: Support to and coordination of research activities in the field magnetic measurements of compounds based on transition metals and of heterostructures.

Activities

  1. Equipment: start-up support activities, tests, procedure optimization, benchmarking (including computational means): Procedure optimization and tests for electron-magnetic and structural, morphological and compositional characterization.


  2. Research seminars, tutorials and lectures on fabrication, characterization and computation of multifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Seminars and tutorials on high and low temperatures magnetic and trasport measurements. Lectures on bulk, thin films, interfaces and hetero-structures systems susceptibility and magnetic characterizations.


  3. Coordination, support, mentoring and laboratory guidance of research activities about fabrication, characterization and computation of mutifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Intense coordination and mentoring activities about multifunctional materials expecially addressed to the electron-magnetic and structural characterizations.


  4. Support activities for R&D project applications: preparation, team coordination, planning, individuation of specific objectives: Coordination and support for scientific project applications in the field of transport and magnetic and structural characterizations of multifunctional materials. The activity of the recruited researcher will be devoted to support SPIN research staff for European projects participation.


  5. Monitoring, management and research guidance for lab procedures (including the lab for compuational targets): Support for monitoring, management, and research guidance for methodologies in the context of the electro-magnetic and structural characterizations. Combining analyses for optimal characterization.



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Paola Gentile

Dates: 1 Mar 2011 - 31 Aug 2012


Main activity: Support to and coordination of research activities in the field of modelling and study of the effects of interaction between superconductivity and magnetism of complex materials and hybrid systems.

Activities

  1. Equipment: start-up support activities, tests, procedure optimization, benchmarking (including computational means): Start-up support activities for the operational modes of the computer cluster. Benchmarking codes for numerical simulation of complex quantum systems and correlated materials. Tests for ab-initio approaches to bulk materials/thin films/interfaces..


  2. Research seminars, tutorials and lectures on fabrication, characterization and computation of multifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Seminars and tutorial research cases for application of different many-body approaches for correlated systems. Seminars/lectures about latest theoretical approaches to deal with correlated systems, interplay of competing orders, phase diagram in heterostructures, spin and charge transport.


  3. Coordination, support, mentoring and laboratory guidance of research activities about fabrication, characterization and computation of mutifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Coordination and support to theoretical research activities about approaches for analysing physical properties of multifunctional advanced materials, computational techniques, heterostructures and electronic transport.


  4. Support activities for R&D project applications: preparation, team coordination, planning, individuation of specific objectives: Coordination and support for scientific project applications in the field of heterostructures. Support to European project application and for coordination of stragetic partnership with European research groups having high and consolidated reputations in the field of heterostructures.


  5. Monitoring, management and research guidance for lab procedures (including the lab for compuational targets): Support for monitoring, management and research guidance for methodologies for computation of heterostructures, correlated systems and electronic transport.



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Rosalba Fittipaldi

Dates: 1 Mar 2011 - 31 Aug 2012


Main activity: Support to and coordination of research activities in the field of synthesis of oxide single crystals with floating zone technique.


Activities

  1. Equipment: start-up support activities, tests, procedure optimization, benchmarking (including computational means): Optimitazion of floating zone furnace performance for growth of multifunctional advanced materials single cystals. Start-up support activities for the scanning electron microscope operations. Benchmarking of the installed scanning electron microscope with micro manipulators. Tests of the scanning electron microscope with trials materials.


  2. Research seminars, tutorials and lectures on fabrication, characterization and computation of multifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Seminars and tutorials on single crystals growth of transition metal oxides such as strontium ruthenates, high Tc superconductors, manganites. Lectures on chemical phase diagrams of systems having eutectic and peritectic transitions.


  3. Coordination, support, mentoring and laboratory guidance of research activities about fabrication, characterization and computation of mutifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Coordination and support actions for experimental activities on bulk, textured and single crystals growth of multifunctional materials. Laboratory guidance and step by step addressing of researchers involved in the activity of synthesis and morphological, compositional and structural analysis of samples based on transition metal oxides.


  4. Support activities for R&D project applications: preparation, team coordination, planning, individuation of specific objectives: Coordination and support for scientific project applications in the field of bulk materials (single crystals). In particular, this activity of the recruited researcher will be of support for national and European projects application through stragetic partnership with research groups having high and consolidated reputations in the field of multifunctional materials based on transition metal oxides.


  5. Monitoring, management and research guidance for lab procedures (including the lab for compuational targets): Support for monitoring, management, and research guidance for methodologies of fabricating single crystals for technologically and scientifically relevant families of TMO based materials.



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