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A General Overview of the Doctorate Programme in Physics

PHD VIRTUAL OPEN WEEK 2021PhD Course in Physics

Experimental Physics of Matter Theoretical Physics of Matter Physics of Complex Systems High Energy Physics

The Research and Training Subjects

The research topics and the curriculumof the Programme are classified by thefollowing general subject areas:

Experimental Physics of Matter: Research Topics

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Nano Technologies and their applications to life sciences

Optical Spectroscopy, Photonics and Plasmonics

Physical biosensing

Light-responsive compounds

NanoPhotonic structures for Light-management

Contact: Prof. F. Giorgis

Contact: Prof. E. Descrovi

Bioactive nanostructured surfaces

Advanced materials for energy

Memristive devices and brain-inspired computing

Nanomechanical sensing

Therapeutic and imaging properties of stimuli-activated semiconducting nanocrystals against cancer cells

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Contact: Prof. V. Cauda

Contact: Prof. P. Mandracci

Contact: Prof. C. Ricciardi

Nano-Materials and Quantum Optics Magnetization dynamics in thin films and nanostructures

Quantum technologies in the frame of quantum optics

Ecofriendly nanomaterials: production, characterization and application

Contact: Prof. A. Tagliaferro

Contact: Prof. M. Genovese

Contact: Prof. G. Durin

Classical and quantum machanics methods areemployed to study and predict: Optical and electronic properties of

nanomaterials

Surface and Interfaces Phenomena

With applications to: Catalysis & CO2 valorization

Membrane technologies

Solar cells & energy harvestingContacts: Prof. G. Cicero, Dr. F. Risplendi

Computational Condensed Matter Physics

Materials and devices for Energy harvesting and storageEnergy storage in supercapacitors: 2D nanomaterials

Innovative architectures

Integration of harvesting and storage devices

Blue energy: Graphene membranes for salinity gradient power

Raw materials recovery from sea water

Synthesis & physical/chemical characterization of functional nanomaterials and devicesContacts: Proff. A. Lamberti, C.F. Pirri, S. Bianco, E. Tresso

Biosensors

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Contacts: Proff. M. Cocuzza, C.F. Pirri, Dr. F. Frascella,Dr. S. Marasso

Development of a versatile biosensing platformfor low concentration molecules detection inbiomedical, food and agricultural fields.Materials 2D photonics based on hyperbolic

metamaterials arranged in a planar geometry(HMM)

Organic Field-Effect and Electro ChemicalTransistor based sensor for real-timemicrofluidic detection finalized as hightechnology Lab on Chip devices

Superconductivity and Magnetism Unconventional superconductivity: fundamental studies and

applications

2D materials for novel electronic devices: characterization & electrochemical gating

Heavy-ion irradiation of superconducting and magneticmaterials & study of radiation hardness

Magnetic/superconducting heterostructures for spintronics, magnetic shielding and power applications

Contacts: Proff. D. Daghero, R. Gerbaldo, G. Ghigo, R. Gonnelli, L. Gozzelino, F. Laviano

Nonlinear elastic waves and metamaterials; Computational Fluid Dynamics

Nonlinear elasticity Physical mechanisms responsible for hysteresis and memory Nonlinear Non Destructive Testing (NL-NDT) Nonlinear Imaging

Metamaterials and phononic crystals: Optimization and design of new bio-inspired metastructures:

hierarchical metamaterials Tunable metamaterials: photo-responsive metamaterials Metamaterial applications

Wave propagation in nonlinear/structured media

Tunable and bioinspired metamaterials

Metasensors and nonlinear imaging Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied to Atmospheric Cloud

Physics

Contacts: Proff. A. Gliozzi, M. Scalerandi

Contact: Prof. D. Tordella

Theoretical Physics of Matter: Research Topics

Nanophysics and Quantum Systems, Superconductivity

Decoherence and dissipation effects in quantum systems and

opto-electronics

Phase coherent phenomena in nanophysics

Topological insulators and superconductors

Strongly correlated low-dimensional systems

Quantum phases and dynamics of bosonic systems

Quantum Information and Entanglement

Study of the properties of superconducting materials

Detecting gravitational waves through quantum fluids

Contacts: Proff. F. Rossi, D. Girolami F. Dolcini, R. Iotti, A. Montorsi, V. Penna, F. Raffa, L. Tocchio , G. Ummarino

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Physics of Complex Systems: Research Topics

Physics of Complex Systems

Advanced variational methods for statistical inference.

Statistical modeling of biological sequence data for structural, functional, and medical applications.

Inverse statistical modeling of epidemic dynamics

Large scale organism-wide metabolic modeling

Mathematical modeling of vesicular traffic in cells

Statistical models of lost-transcriptional regulation

Algorithm for machine learning

Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (NESM)

Analysis of high-dimensional long-range correlated data arrays for interdisciplinary applications (www.polito.it/noiselab)

Contacts: Proff. A. Braunstein, L. Dall’Asta, A Pagnani, R. Zecchina

Contact: Prof. A. Carbone

Contact: Prof. A. Pelizzola

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High Energy Physics: Research Topics

Experimental Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Study of the properties of QGP at ALICE experiment (Geneva)• Data Analysis: Study of the charm production and flow;Study

of the matter and anti-matter production; Applying Machine Learning techniques

• Software Development: Optimization of algorithms usedto determine the collision point of the colliding lead ions; development of Graphical Process Units;

• Detector R&D. Contacts: Proff. M. Agnello, S. Bufalino

Contacts: Dr. V. Capirossi, Proff. F. Iazzi, A. Lavagno, Dr. F. Pinna

Study of heavy ion double charge exchange reactions in the search for the double-beta decay processes (NUMEN-INFN collaboration)

Search for dark matter in PADME-INFN experiment

Nuclear Physics and Plasma Physics

Plasma Physics and Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion: understanding and the prediction of Tokamak fusion experiments

Hadron and quark-gluon plasma phase transition in compressed baryonic matter regime

Bulk properties of the neutron stars and phase transitions into the core

Merger of compact stars and the phenomenological implications: gravitational waves and gamma ray bursts

Contacts: Proff. A. Lavagno, F. Porcelli

Supergravity and AdS/CFT

Study of Supergravity models in diverse dimensions and their “hidden symmetries”

Gauged supergravities and their black-hole/black-brane solutions with application to holography

AdS/CFT in supergravity and applications to the description of graphene-like 2D-materials

BPS solutions in Chern-Simons theories in D=5

Contacts: Proff. L. Andrianopoli, M. Trigiante

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Opportunities and Structures Offered by the Course

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Laboratories:

Nanosciences labs

Vibrational Spectroscopy and Nano-Optics lab

Optics and Acoustics

Memristive devices

Laboratories:

Advanced microscopy

X-Lab (Materials and Processes for Micro & Nano-Technologies)• «Energy» Lab; Advanced morpho./structur./composit. Characterization;

Advanced optical characterization; Chemical Functionalization and Biosensing

• Smart materials for 3D printing technologies; Cell printing; Organ-on-Chip – technologies for organ models, tissue growth and release of drugs

Transmission Electron Microscopy Focus Ion BeamNano-IR optical

spectroscopy/microscopy

DLP 3D printing

Laboratories

Superconducting Tunnel & Andreev-Reflection Spectroscopy

Cryogenic Field Effect

Scanning Probe Microscopy & Spectroscopy

Analysis of Electromagnetic Properties of Materials laboratory

Magneto-optic visualization Lab

Microwave Characterization and Magnetic Susceptibility Laboratory

Superconductivity Laboratory

Laboratories

Nanomaterials for composites and photocatalysis

Noiselab :

Transport and noise properties of low dimensional electronic systems,

such as Quantum Well and Quantum Dot Heterostructures and Josephson Junction

Arrays

Career Opportunities

Experimental and Theoretical Physics

Academic career: post-doc research positions in Italy and abroad

Career in research institutes (e.g. INRiM, CNR, INFN, etc.)

Data analytics in private sector (insurance, automotive etc.)

Start-up high-tech sector

Industrial research and development (especially in the field of materials science)

Scientific editions (editor of international scientific journals)

Physics teaching in high school

Testimonials

Michela FRACASSO, currently PhD student, 35th cycle. Her research activity is in Experimental Physics. She is the representative of the PhD students in Physics at Politecnico;

Dr. Andrea RICHAUD, former PhD student within the Doctorate Programme in Physics at ScuDo. Presently postdoc at SISSA-ISAS (Trieste) in the Condensed Matter group. He attained his PhD degree in February 2020.

THANK YOU!

Michela Fracasso,PhD student

Dr. Andrea Richaud (SISSA-ISAS, Trieste)