Pallecchi Ilaria

2001-2002

• Post-doc position by the Institut für Theoretische Physik of Hamburg, Germany

February 2000

• PhD degree at the University of Genoa; thesis title: “Driving of the metal-insulator transition in heterostructures based on copper and titanium perovskites”.

July 1996

• Master degree in Physics at the University of Genoa, awarded with the mark of 110/110 s.c.l.; thesis title: “Study of magnetization in the mixed state of superconducting cuprate films”.

Mother tongue(s)

Italian

Other language(s)

English (First Certificate and Proficiency Certificate of Cambridge University)

Job-related skills

Expertize in:

• superconducting, thermoelectric, magnetic and quantum materials

• oxide interface and heterostructures

• 2D dimensional materials

• design, fabrication and characterization of electronic and spintronic devices

Experimental skills:

• Characterization and analysis of transport properties down to low temperatures and in magnetic field (resistivity, magnetoresistance, Hall effect, Seebeck effect, thermal conductivity, electric capacity, magnetization, spin transport)

• Thin film deposition by Pulsed Laser Ablation

• Optical end electronic lithography

• Structural characterization by X-rays diffraction

• Morphological characterization by atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy

Project Management skills 

• Principal Investigator PRIN2022 Project SUBLI “Sustainable spin generators based on Van der Waals dichalcogenides” (2023-2025)

• Principal Investigator Flag-Era JCT call 2017 Project MELODICA “Revealing the potential of transition metal dichalcogenides for thermoelectric applications through nanostructuring and confinement” (2018-2021)

• Participation as work-package leader in the FP7-NMP-2011-EU-Japan Project SUPERIRON “Exploring the potential of Iron-based Superconductors”, contract n. 283204 (2011-2014)

• Participation as work-package leader in the Italian PRIN 2017 project HIBISCUS “High performance-low cost Iron BaSed Coated condUctorS for high field magnets”, contact n. 201785KWLE (2019-2022)

Other skills (training skill, organizational skills, editorial skills)

• Supervisor of 7 Master students and one PhD student in Physics (2002-2020).

• Member of the organizing committee of 7 international conferences and 2 national conferences (2004-2021):

• Activities as Guest Editor (2013, 2020):

     - Guest Editor for the topic “Materials” in the Proceedings of the conference EUCAS 2013, published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Institute of Physics (UK) (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/507/0/001001);

     - Guest Editor in the Proceedings of the national conference on thermoelectricity GiTE 2018, published in Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Springer (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11665-018-3756-1);

     - Guest Editor for the focus issue “10 years of iron-based superconductors” of the journal Superconductor Science and Technology, Institute of Physics (UK) (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6668/ab9ad2).

• Member of the editorial Advisory Board of the journal Superconductor Science and Technology (2021 to present)

• Awards for activities as referee of international journals:

     - acknowledgement from the publisher IOP as one of the most productive referees of the year 2007;

     - ranked among the “outstanding referees” of the year 2014 for the publisher APS (https://journals.aps.org/OutstandingReferees);

     - acknowledgement from the site Publons for placing among the top 1% reviewers in Physics in the years 2017-2018.