Primary activity: Atom/surface interaction: light-induced desorption and its applications in fundamental physics and sensing.

Coherent phenomena in alkali metal vapors thermally and optically controlled: Coherent Population Trapping, Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in sealed cells and magnetometry, even with full optical stabilization of atomic vapor density by light-induced desorption.

Atoms diffusion in disordered porous media: diffusion, anomalous diffusion and photo-induced production of metal nanoparticles in porous glass matrices.

Laser cooling: hyperfine spectroscopy of stable and radioactive atoms in MOTs.

Main experiences acquired: Atomic spectroscopy techniques
Metal nanoparticles spectroscopy
Laser cooling
Laser systems and related technologies

Others Funded Projects in which he/she participates:
Sorgenti di atomi controllate la luce per spettroscopia coerente ed altre applicazioni

Publications, Research Results, now, in INO’s database are: 25
  –   Papers JCR/ISI Journals, are: 18
  –   Books or Chapters, are: 0
  –   Papers in Journals not indexed JCR/ISI, are: 0
  –   Conference proceedings, are: 5
  –   Abstract, are: 8

Bibliometric indices are calculated USING ONLY THE INO DATABASE and the number of citations from “WEB OF SCIENCE” (of Thomson Reuters) is updated at 2024-11-24
  –   maximum number of citations for an article: 25
  –   maximum impact factor (IF) for a journal when an article is published: 3.589
  –   H-INDEX: 9   G-INDEX: 13   HC-INDEX (contemporary): 4 
  –   List of TopTen papers in citations  –   List of TopTen journals in Impact Factor