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Team Members Marta De Luca Principal Investigator Office: n° 350, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department Read More Francesca Santangeli PhD Student Office: n° 349, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department Read More Muhammad Tahir PhD Student Office: n° 349, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department Read More Simone Nucchi Master Student Office: n° 349, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department Read More Akant Sagar Sharma Post-Doc Researcher Office: n° 349, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department Read More Paolo De Vincenzi PhD Student Office: n° 312, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department Read More Isabella Santanchè Researcher Office: n° 312, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department Read More Antonio Miriametro Technical Collaborator Office: n° 304, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department Read More Harikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Post-Doc Researcher Office: n° 349, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department Read More Riccardo Pallucchi PhD Student Office: n° 349, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department Read More Viola Valeau Master Student Office: n° 312, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department Read More Carola Castrucci Administrative Coordinator Office: n° 104, first floor, Marconi building, Physics Department Read More Alumni Research Assistant Xiangyu Lin Read More Master Student Pietro Todesco Read More Master Student Mario Roggi Read More

< Back Marta De Luca Principal Investigator Curriculum Vitae Publications Academic Career 2023-today Associate Professor in the Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), following a direct call for ERC grant owners. 2021-2023 Tenure-track Professor in the Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, following a direct call for Rita Levi Montalcini grant owners. 2019-2021 Researcher in the Physics Department of the University of Basel (Switzerland), owing to an Ambizione grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation. 2015-2019 Post-doc researcher in the Physics Department of the University of Basel in the ‘Nanophononics group’ of Prof. I. Zardo. 2014-2015 Post-doc researcher in Sapienza University in the group ‘Optical Spectroscopy of Nanostructured Materials Lab’ of Prof. A. Polimeni. Education 2011-2014 PhD in Materials Science (curriculum: Physics of semiconductors) in the Physics Department of Sapienza University. Title of the thesis: ‘Optical and magneto-optical studies of III-V semiconductor nanowires’. 2009-2011 Master degree in Physics at Sapienza University, 110/110 cum laude. 2006-2011 Bachelor degree in Physics at the same University, 110/110 cum laude. Grants 2023-2025 PRIN grant by Italian Ministry of University and Research in collaboration with CNR Pisa. Project title: ‘GROUNDS: Growth and optical studies of tunable quantum dots and superlattices in semiconductor nanowires’. Role: PI. Funding for Sapienza: 95 k€. 2023-2027 Sapienza grant for PI of ERC. Project title: ‘HELIOS: Bright telecom-band single photon sources in bottom-up nanowire waveguides’. Role: PI. Funding: 100 k€. 2024-2027 Sapienza grant for finalists to Horizon Europe grants. Role: PI. Funding: 21.5 k€. 2023-2026 PNNR grant by Italian Ministry of University and Research. We participate to the activities of spoke 4: ‘Development of single photon quantum states based on quantum dots operating at different wavelengths’. Role: participant with funding. 2022-2027 ERC starting grant by European Research Council. Project title: ‘ NANOWHYR. Dots-in-NANOWires by near-field illumination: novel single-photon sources for HYbRid quantum photonic circuits ’. Role: PI. Funding: 1.5 M€. 2021-2023 Rita Levi Montalcini grant by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. Project title: ‘Engineering the functional properties of semiconductors at the nanoscale: from photonic to thermoelectric applications’. Role: PI. Funding: 302 k€. 2019-2024 Ambizione grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Project title: ‘Quantum structures in nanowires: physical properties on demand by hydrogen irradiation ’. Role: PI. Funding: 904 k€. Prizes 2021 Italian Society of Physics: ‘Laura Bassi’ prize, for being the best female physicist across all areas of physics in 2021. 2020 Italian Ministry of University and Research: ‘Rita Levi Montalcini’ prize, for being among the 24 most brilliant researchers (across all disciplines) abroad and become tenure-track Professors in an Italian institution. 2016 Institute of Physics: ‘Emerging leaders’ award from IOP (Institute of Physics) for scientists in the early years of their research careers identified as leaders who will shape the direction of research in the next 50 years. 2015 ‘Best PhD thesis 2015’ prize by Sapienza University of Rome for the best five PhD thesis in 2015. The prize allowed the publication of a book based on the thesis by ‘Sapienza University’ Editor. 2014 Italian Society of Physics: ‘Piero Brovetto’ prize for the outstanding research on the magneto-optical properties of nanostructures during the PhD. 2014 & 2012 ‘Start a research’ personal grants by Sapienza for the post-doc (2014) & PhD (2012) projects. 2012 Award by the EU organization COST Action (Novel Gain Materials and Devices Based on III-V-N Compounds) for the ‘ICPS 2012’ Conference in Zurich in 2012. 2012 European Materials Research Society: Graduate Student award for the best oral presentation in the conference, for research on the electronic properties of hydrogenated InGaN alloys. Invited talks International Symposium on Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology (ISSON) (Australia, 12/2024) The Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD) (Australia, 12/2024) The Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference of IEEE (Italy, 10/2023) The International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter (France, 07/2023) The International Symposium on Nanowire Photonics (UK, 11/2022) The International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM) conference (Japan, 09/2022) The 2DMAT2021 conference (France, 08/2021) The Asian Regional High Field Magnet conference (Japan, 12/2020) The EMN conference on Nanowires (Mauritius, 11/2019) The Swiss Forum on quantum technologies (Switzerland, 05/2019) The workshop on Advances in Materials at the EPFL (Switzerland, 03/2019) The International workshop and PhD school ‘Nanostructures for photonics’ (Russia, 05/2018) The Nanowires 2017 conference (Sweden, 06/2017) The workshop on Quantum Science and Technologies in Basel (Switzerland, 03/2017) Invited colloquia Colloquium at the Federico II University of Naples for the seminars cycle in Quantum Science and Technology (Italy, 10/2023) Seminar at the Institute of Materials at the EPFL (Switzerland, 02/2022) Colloquium at the Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy, 10/2020) Seminar at the EMPA Institute of the ETH (Switzerland, 07/2020) Colloquium at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (Spain, 02/2020) Colloquium at SFB-Kolloquium: emergent relativistic effects, University of Regensburg (Germany, 12/2019) Seminar at the Applied Physics Department, Technical University Eindhoven (The Netherlands, 11/2019) Seminar at the Physics Department, University of Münster (Germany, 06/2019) Seminar at the EMPA Institute of the ETH (Switzerland, 09/2018) Seminar at the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses de Toulouse (France, 01/2015) Editorial activities Editorial board member of the journal Nano Futures (2021-today). Associate editor for Wiley-VCH ‘Encyclopaedia of Applied Physics’ (EAP), section: Thermoelectrics (2017-2023). Back to Top Sapienza University of Rome, Physics Department marta.deluca@uniroma1.it Office: n° 350, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department

< Back Francesca Santangeli PhD Student Curriculum Vitae Publications since 2022 PhD student in the Nanospectroscopy group at the Physics department of the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Currently working on tuning the optoelectronic and vibrational properties of InN nanowires. 2019-2022 Master of Science (MSc) in Organic Chemistry at Sapienza University, Rome 2016-2019 Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Chemistry at Sapienza University, Rome Back to Top Sapienza University of Rome, Physics Department francesca.santangeli@uniroma1.it Office: n° 349, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department

< Back Carola Castrucci Administrative Coordinator Curriculum Vitae Publications I earned my degree in Linguistics, Literature, and Translation Studies from Sapienza University of Rome in 2020. I started working at Sapienza’s Physics Department in July 2022 as administrative coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Programmes. Since September 2025, my responsibilities have expanded to include the ERC Nanowhyr project. Back to Top carola.castrucci@uniroma1.it carola.castrucci@uniroma1.it Office: n° 104, first floor, Marconi building, Physics Department

< Back Riccardo Pallucchi PhD Student Curriculum Vitae Publications since 2023 PhD student in Physics at the Nanospectroscopy group at the Physics department of the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Currently working on strain characterization and localized quantum dot fabrication in N doped GaAs nanowires. 2023 Research Grant at Institute for Complex Systems (ISC) - CNR, Rome 2020-2023 Master of Science (MSc) in Condensed Matter Physics at Sapienza University, Rome 2015-2019 Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Physics at Sapienza University, Rome Back to Top Sapienza University of Rome, Physics Department riccardo.pallucchi@uniroma1.it Office: n° 349, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department

< Back Simone Nucchi Master Student Curriculum Vitae Publications since 2024 Master Student of Science (MSc) in Condensed Matter Physics at Sapienza University, Rome. 2021-2024 Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Physics at Sapienza University, Rome Back to Top Sapienza University of Rome, Physics Department Office: n° 349, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department

< Back Isabella Santanchè Researcher Curriculum Vitae Publications 2023-2026 Master Student of Science (MSc) in Condensed Matter Physics at Sapienza University, Rome. 2020-2023 Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Physics at Sapienza University, Rome Back to Top Sapienza University of Rome, Physics Department Office: n° 312, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department

< Back Viola Valeau Master Student Curriculum Vitae Publications since 2023 Master Student of Science (MSc) in Condensed Matter Physics at Sapienza University, Rome. 2020-2023 Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Physics at Sapienza University, Rome Back to Top Sapienza University of Rome, Physics Department Office: n° 312, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department

< Back Harikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Post-Doc Researcher Curriculum Vitae Publications since 2025 Postdoctoral Researcher in Nano-spectroscopy group, Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Supervisor: Prof. Marta De Luca. 2023-2024 Postdoctoral Researcher in the Scanning Probe Microscopy and Plasmonics Group, School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Project: Harnessing direct and indirect excitons in TMDCs for photo-stimulated device applications (STARS-MoE, Govt of India) PI: Prof. Joy Mitra. Project: Functionalizing the next-generation 2D semiconductors for optoelectronic and catalytic applications via ion irradiation (SPARC-UKIERI) PI’s: Prof. Ravi Silva, Director, ATI. Prof. Satheesh Krishnamurthy, Director, Ion Beam Center, University of Surrey, UK & Prof. Joy Mitra, IISER TVM 2017-2023 Ph.D. in Physics (INSPIRE Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India) School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Supervisor: Prof. Joy Mitra. Thesis Title : Optoelectronic and Transport Properties of Nanostructured Hybrids of ZnO PEDOT:PSS and Ni-TiO2. Indo-Poland Joint Project (2020-2023) A novel heterostructure architecture for photodetection and photo-enhanced electron emission applications (Indo-Poland Project); Prof. Dorota A. Pawlak, Institute of Electronic Materials Technology, Department of Functional Materials, University of Warsaw, Poland. Exchange Visit Student (2018) Nanoscale writing of bespoke Graphene devices for electronic and plasmonic scalable technologies (UGC-UKIERI); Prof. Ravi P Silva, Advanced Technology Institute (ATI), University of Surrey, UK. 2016-2017 Project Assistant School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Supervisor: Prof. Joy Mitra Project: Nanoscale Schottky Junction for sub-ppm hydrogen detection (DST-SERB Grant) 2011-2016 BS MS Integrated Dual Degree; Physics (Major) and Chemistry (Minor) Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. Back to Top Sapienza University of Rome, Physics Department harikrishnan.gopalakrishnan@uniroma1.it Office: n° 349, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department

< Back Antonio Miriametro Technical Collaborator Curriculum Vitae Publications Antonio Miriametro is an electronic technician at the Department of Physics of the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He is highly committed to his job, he likes analog and digital electronics (preferably the digital one), as well as computer science. His activity involves the technical collaboration with research projects, by developing new electronic hardware and software designs, as well as complicatd automation systems. He is also in charge of maintaining and repairing the electronic and opto-mechanics equipment used in the research laboratories working on condensed matter, optical/electronic specroscopies and photonics. He is specialist in L.A.S.E.R systems. From 1993 to 2001, he participated in seven Antarctic campaigns, as electronic manager at O.A.S.I. (Submillimetric Infrared Antarctic Observatory) at the Italian base "Baia Terra Nova" (now "Mario Zucchelli" 74 ° 41 '42 "South and 164 ° 05 '58" East). His last Antarctic campaign was in 2007 at the Dome Concordia Station (75°07'S 123°22'E) on the Antarctic plateau at 3250 meters above m.s.l. for the COCHISE project (Cosmological Observations at Concordia with High-sensitivity Instrument for Source Extraction). Presently, he provides technical assistance within various European projects in the Physics Department. Back to Top Sapienza University of Rome, Physics Department antonio.miriametro@uniroma1.it Office: n° 304, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department

< Back Paolo De Vincenzi PhD Student Curriculum Vitae Publications since 2023 PhD student in the Nanospectroscopy group at the Physics department of the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Currently working on creating QDs in GaAsN, GaAsP and InAsP NWs and tune their emission. 2021-2023 Master of Science (MSc) in Condensed Matter Physics at Sapienza University, Rome 2017-2021 Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Physics at Sapienza University, Rome Back to Top Sapienza University of Rome, Physics Department paolo.devincenzi@uniroma1.it Office: n° 312, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department

< Back Muhammad Tahir PhD Student Curriculum Vitae Publications since 2023 PhD Student, Nanospectroscopy Group, Department of PhysicsSapienza University of Rome, Italy. Currently focusing on tuning the optoelectronic and thermoelectric properties of indium nitride (InN) nanowires. 2018-2020 Master of Science (MSc) in PhysicsCOMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan 2013-2017 Bachelor of Science (BSc) in PhysicsBahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan Back to Top Sapienza University of Rome, Physics Department muhammad.tahir@uniroma1.it Office: n° 349, third floor, Marconi building, Physics Department