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Umeå University

Umea University

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Umeå University (UmU) was founded in 1965 and is Sweden's fifth oldest university. Today, it has a strong international and multicultural presence with students, teachers and researchers from all over the world (approx. 35,000 students and over 4,600 employees). The aim of the university is to continue becoming one of Scandinavia's best environments for study and research and meet the challenges of an ever-increasing global society. UmU is one of Sweden’s most comprehensive universities within all areas of scientific research. This research takes place on a broad scale in order to compete in the international arena. The university conducts ground-breaking research within several areas e.g. Biogeochemistry, Ecosystem Dynamics, Energy, Infections, Plant and Forest Biotechnology and Social Welfare Research. Furthermore, UmU carries out strong research in physics, for example in optical physics, nonlinear physics, plasma physics, general relativity, condensed matter physics and nanotechnology, photonics, biological physics, complex networks, space physics and physics education. A specific example of UmU’s world class research is Emmanuelle Charpentier, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for her discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 genetic scissors when she was active at UmU.

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Nicolò Maccaferri

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Nicolò (m) holds a tenure-track professorship and is the head of the ‘Ultrafast Nanophotonics and Advanced Functional Materials’ Group at the Department of Physics, Umeå University (Sweden) supported by the Swedish Research Council, the European Innovation Council, the Faculty of Science and Technology and the Kempe Foundations. Currently, he is also a visiting researcher and group leader at the Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg. Nicolò performed his PhD research at CIC nanoGUNE (Spain) and got his PhD in Physics of Nanostructures and Advanced Materials from the University of the Basque Country in 2016. In 2015, he received the “Piero Brovetto” Award from the Italian Physical Society for “his contributions in the fields of nanomagnetism and nanooptics and the study of the physical properties of magnetoplasmonic nanoantennas and their application in bio-sensing”. Until now, he was able to collect more than 2.5 M€ to fund his research. In 2022, he became a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe, an association of top young researchers in Europe with logistic and financial support from COST. Nicolò’s research span a broad range of fundamental and applied aspects of natural sciences, with a special focus on both the fundamental and applied aspects of light-matter interactions in advanced and multifunctional nano- and meta-materials for opto-electronics and information processing, photochemistry and biotechnology.


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University of Padova

Università degli Studi di Padova

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The Department of Chemical Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Padova hosts >90 tenure & tenure-track faculties and has an internationally recognized leading role in the development of interdisciplinary aspects of chemical sciences, with research projects supported by European and Italian funding. In particular, DiSC has hosted 6 ERC grantees so far. DiSC research contributes to molecular sciences for health, alternative energy sources, catalysis, sustainable chemistry, sensors and biomedical diagnostics. DiSC hosts two PhD Courses: Molecular Sciences (www.chimica.unipd.it/sdsm) and Science and Engineering of Materials and Nanostructures (www.chimica.unipd.it/simn). The DiSC currently hosts a total of about 1100 bachelor and master students, 80 PhD students and 50 post-docs. A quarter of DiSC postdocs and PhD students come from abroad, funded by European projects, international programs and private foundations. DiSC has been selected as a Department of Excellence by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of University and Research Systems) to access nine million euro for the period 2018-2022, with the project NExuS: Nanochimica per l’Energia e la Salute (Nanochemistry for Energy and Health).

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  • Dr Stefano Corni

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    Stefano Corni is full professor in physical chemistry at UniPd, where he leads the Nanostructures & (Bio)molecules Modeling group ( http://www.tame-plasmons.eu ), and associated researcher at the CNR Institute of Nanoscience, Modena (Italy). After the PhD in Chemistry from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy) in 2003, he joined the National Research Center on nanoStructures and bioSystems at Surfaces (now CNR Institute of Nanoscience) in Modena, first as a post-doc and then as a tenure-track researcher (with tenure in 2009). He has been visiting scientist at ETH/USI Lugano (2014), and at RMIT Melbourne (2016). In 2017 he moved to UniPd. S. Corni has been PI of the ERC CoG TAME Plasmons ("A theoretical chemistry approach to time-resolved molecular plasmonics", 2016-2021).

  • Dr Agostino Migliore

    After receiving a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2007, he was a postdoctoral researcher (2007-2009) at the Center for Molecular Modeling of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2009-2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University. Later he joined the Department of Chemistry of Duke University, first as a postdoctoral associate (2013-2014) and then as an assistant research professor (2014-2020). Since 2020, he is an assistant research professor in the Department of Chemical Science at UniPD.

  • Dr Ciro A. Guido

    Ciro A. Guido has worked as post-doc on the ProID project till end of 2021. He is currently an assistant professor in Physical Chemistry at Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro” (Italy). After the PhD in Chemistry from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy) in 2011, he spent 10 years as a postdoc at CECAM-EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland 2011-12), École Centrale Paris (France, 2012-2014), University of Pisa (Italy, 2014-2016), Université de Nantes (France, 2016-2018), UniPD (Italy, 2018-2021), and as an assistant research professor at University of Siena (Italy, 2022). C. Guido has been the recipient of a Maria Zambrano (2021, NextGenerationEU, 1st classified) and a Beatriu de Pinos fellowships (2017 BP 00207) and Co-PI of 2 LUMOMAT (2016 and 2017, www.lumomat.fr) grants.

  • Dr Mirko Vanzan

    He graduated with honours in 2017 with a thesis titled “A computational investigation on the electronic and optical properties of Au25(SR)18“. Then, he was a PhD student in Molecular Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Corni and got his PhD degree in 2022. To date, he has published 5 papers as first author in international journals.

  • Dr Gabriel Gil

    Gabriel Gil is a a post-doc working on ProID in the group of Prof. S. Corni.  Gabriel got his M.Sc. in Physics from University of Havana, Faculty of Physics in 2013, and his PhD in Physics and Nanosciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2017. He worked as a post-doc in the group of Prof. S. Corni before, and as a researcher at the Theoretical Physics Department, Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics and Physics (ICIMAF), Havana, Cuba. He has co-authored 16 publications in international journals so far.

  • Giulia Dall’Osto

    Giulia Dall’Osto  is a PhD student at the PhD school of Molecular Sciences of UniPD working under the supervision of Prof. S. Corni and collaborating at the ProID activities. She graduated in Chemistry in 2019 at the University of Padova and in the same year she started her PhD project. So far she is co-author of 5 papers in different international journals


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Micro Photon Devices

Micro Photon Devices

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Micro Photon Devices Srl (MPD) is a dynamic production and engineering company based in Bolzano. MPD was founded with the goal of leading the forefront research activities in single-photon counting and picosecond timing of single photons. MPD currently produces and commercialises advanced single-photon counting modules with unmatched photon-timing capabilities and overall performance. Silicon SPADs make it possible to conjugate high detector performance with miniaturisation, low power and the development of integrated systems. SPADs in compound semiconductors extend photon counting applications to the near-infrared spectral range up to the optical fibre wavelengths. 

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  • Andrea Giudice

    Dr Andrea Giudice (male) PhD in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2003. He currently is the Managing Director of  MPD: expert in the design, validation, and characterisation of electronic devices and circuits. In 1997, he has a summer student at National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC now Tyndall), Cork, Ireland, where he designed and tested avalanche photodiodes for single-photon detection. Deep know-how in single-photon detectors and applications gained during his PhD at the Department of Electronics and Information of Politecnico di Milano within Prof. Cova’s group and during his previous career in MPD as a senior R&D engineer.

  • Simone Tisa

    Dr Simone Tisa*(male), PhD degree in Information Technology Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2006. He is currently a Product R&D Manager for electronics design and system integration at Micro Photon Devices. In 2008, he pioneered the first monolithic 2-D SPAD imager of 32 × 32 pixels. His main research interests are in the field of single-photon imaging and single-photon timing of fast phenomena, by means of fully integrated arrays of SPADs and associated microelectronics.

  • Alessandro Ruggeri

    Dr Alessandro Ruggeri (male), received his PhD in Information Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI) in 2015. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Micro Photon Devices Srl, after working some years as a senior development engineer and dealing with the design of advanced electronic circuits, FPGA programming and experimental characterization of avalanche photodiodes for single-photon counting, both in Silicon and InGaAs/InP. Previously, he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering at POLIMI. In the summer of 2014, he worked at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, where he worked on the characterization of ULSI circuits using optical (non-invasive) testing. His main research interest is in the development of electronics for single-photon diodes, both in the visible and near-infrared, for biomedical applications, physics studies, quantum communications, and quantum sensing.

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Politecnico di Milano

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Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI, www.polimi.it) is one of the largest universities in Italy, well acknowledged in Europe as a technical school for engineering. POLIMI is the 13 top Engineering Schools in the world and at the first place among all Italian universities in six scientific areas including Computer Science & Information Systems (QS World University Rankings). POLIMI is recognised as a leader in education, offering courses of all levels: Laurea (equivalent to Bachelor of Science), Laurea Magistrale (equivalent to Master of Science), Doctorate programmes, masters, and postgraduate courses. It has growing national and international appeal and a high employment rate for its graduates. POLMI is also European leading University, capable of guiding research and scientific and technological innovation, besides contributing towards sustainable and inclusive development, responding to social challenges.

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  • Prof Federica Villa

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    Federica Villa (Female, Ph.D. in Electronics) is associate professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano, with mature background in the design and development of smart sensors and their front-end circuits. She was born in 1986 in Milano (Italy). She graduated summa cum laude in Electronics Engineering in 2010 and she received the Ph.D. degree cum laude in Information Technology Engineering in 2014 at POLIMI. Her main activity aims to design silicon SPADs in standard CMOS and BCD technologies and to develop arrays of SPADs and Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs). In 2010 she interned in the Biochemistry Dept. of UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles), and collaborated to develop a high throughput Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy set-up based on SPAD arrays. She designed various SPAD arrays, and she employed them in different applications such as LiDAR, spectrocopy and quantum imaging. 

  • Prof Franco Zappa

    Franco Zappa (Male, Ph.D. in Electronics) was born in 1965 in Milano. He received the M.S. in Electronic Engineering cum laude in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in “Electronic and Communication Engineering” 1992, both at Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), Italy. Since 2011 he is full professor of Electronics at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) of POLIMI. His main research activities focus on the design and the development of microelectronics and electron devices for single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detectors and imagers for high-sensitivity luminescence measurements, 2D imaging and “time-of-flight” 3D depth ranging, in visible and near-infrared wavelength ranges. In 2004 he co-founded “MPD” (www.micro-photon-devices.com) deploying photon-counting and photon-timing modules an in 2020 “pioNIRS” (www.pionirs.com) deploying hi-tech fNIRS instrumentation, for non-invasive investigation of biological tissues and food. Ho coordinated various EC-funded (MiSPiA, UniQORN, Teinvein, etc.) and national projects.


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Nick Goldman

PI in data analysis methods for studying genome and protein evolution, synthetic biology, DNA sequencing technologies. Initial training in mathematics, PhD in molecular evolution; experience at MRC National Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (all UK).

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Bikash Kumar Bhandari

Postdoctoral fellow in the Goldman Group at EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute. MSc in physics from Central Department of Physics (Nepal); PhD in computational biology/bioinformatics from the University of Otago (New Zealand).

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Charlotte West

1st year PhD student studying machine learning methods to detect selection in inter-species evolution. Previous experience in bioinformatic pipeline development and genome pairwise alignment. Initial training in mathematics.

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