PCAM summer school: Ultrathin films- theory and applications

PCAM summer school: Ultrathin films- theory and applications

Date: 17 – 21 June 2024
Place: Harrogate, UK

The summer school is a side event to the ‘European Conference on Surface Science – EVC-17 / ECOSS-37’

Students will participate in the plenary talks of the conference and will afterwards follow their own tracks. There will be a poster session where the students present their posters. This is done together with the EVC-17 / ECOSS-37 poster session. Students that attend the full programme of the summer school and present a poster will receive a certificate of participation that they can present at their home university to gain up to 3 ECTS.

Download the programme here.

Download a poster to the summer school.

Register at EVC/ECOSS before 31. Mai 2024.

For updates on EVC-17 / ECOSS-37 please visit their webpage:  https://iop.eventsair.com/evc17-ecoss37

Our speakers:

Steven Quinn

Dr Steven Quinn obtained an MPhys in Physics from the University of St. Andrews (2009) and an MSc in Radiation, Oncology and Biology from the University of Oxford (2010). After his PhD (St Andrews, 2013) and a postdoctoral position at the University of Glasgow (2013-2016), he took up a Lindemann Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016-2017). In 2017, he was appointed to a Lectureship at the University of York and was awarded an Alzheimer’s Research UK Fellowship in 2019. Steven is now a Senior Lecturer, and his group uses a variety of analytical, biosensing and single-molecule imaging techniques to interrogate the structure and dynamics of biomolecules immobilized on solid surfaces.

Miguel Manso Silva

Prof. Miguel Manso Silván obtained his PhD in 1997 at the Department of Applied Physics of UAM after 10 month stay at the “Laboratoire de Matériaux et Génie Physique” (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble). He was afterwards Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Health and Consumer Protection of the Joint Research Center (Ispra, Italy). He has carried out different studies on the micro and nanostructuring of biofunctional coatings processed by hybrid methods. This type of work has been applied to biosensor systems, cell-guides and traps, or microbiologically active surfaces. Sol-gel processed thin films have been an intensive field of study and especially those obtained after a segregation of an ultrathin organosilane film on a titanate linking layer.

Raffaella Lo Nigro

Raffaella Lo Nigro received her B.Sc. in Chemistry cum Laude in 1996 and in 2000 she received her Ph.D. from Catania University. From June 1996 to Dic. 2001 she acquired an advanced know-how in the field of MOCVD at the Catania University. In Dic. 2001, she joined the Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems of CNR as permanent researcher and 2020 as senior researcher. At the IMM, since 2004, she is responsible of the research group working on the Atomic Layer Deposition of insulating thin films. She is component of research activities in national and European projects as well as in collaborations with industries. She is involved in formation activities of several undergraduate students during their thesis stages and of Ph.D. students in Chemistry and Materials Science.

Roberto Bergamaschini

Dr. Roberto Bergamaschini got his PhD in Materials Science in 2013 at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He worked there as postdoctoral fellow for six years and then obtained his present position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Science. His research activity focuses on the modeling and simulation of crystal growth, especially semiconductor heteroepitaxy. He is expert in continuum approaches, particularly the phase-field method, kinetic Monte-Carlo and machine-learning techniques.