I am a scientist who shoots stuff — such as atomically thin 2D materials and metal nanostructures — with ultrashort laser pulses. The laser energy causes my targets to evolve in cool ways over a few trillionths of a second. I film these changes with an ultrashort electron beam, enabling me to see my targets move on the atomic scale.
I currently work as a researcher at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. I earned my PhD in Physics from Cornell University in 2022. You can find my CV here, and links to a few of my research highlights below.
♦ "Multi-scale time-resolved electron diffraction", Ultramicroscopy (2023)
We resolve, in ultrafast electron diffraction, the effects of van der Waals interlayer forces on a twisted heterobilayer.
♦ "A kiloelectron-volt ultrafast electron micro-diffraction apparatus", Struct. Dyn. (2022)
We report the performance of our bespoke ultrafast electron diffraction beamline, including a demonstration of ultrafast multiple scattering effects in thin gold films.
♦ "Lossless Monochromation for Electron Microscopy", Phys. Rev. Appl. (2020)
We show in simulation, and explain with an analytic model, how rf cavities can both monochromate a pulsed electron beam and correct lens abberations.
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