POLITECNICO DI TORINO
A General Overview of the Doctorate Programme in Physics
PHD VIRTUAL OPEN WEEK 2021PhD Course in Physics
Experimental Physics of Matter Theoretical Physics of Matter Physics of Complex Systems High Energy Physics
The Research and Training Subjects
The research topics and the curriculumof the Programme are classified by thefollowing general subject areas:
Nano Technologies and their applications to life sciences
Optical Spectroscopy, Photonics and Plasmonics
Physical biosensing
Light-responsive compounds
NanoPhotonic structures for Light-management
Contact: Prof. F. Giorgis
Contact: Prof. E. Descrovi
Bioactive nanostructured surfaces
Advanced materials for energy
Memristive devices and brain-inspired computing
Nanomechanical sensing
Therapeutic and imaging properties of stimuli-activated semiconducting nanocrystals against cancer cells
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Contact: Prof. V. Cauda
Contact: Prof. P. Mandracci
Contact: Prof. C. Ricciardi
Nano-Materials and Quantum Optics Magnetization dynamics in thin films and nanostructures
Quantum technologies in the frame of quantum optics
Ecofriendly nanomaterials: production, characterization and application
Contact: Prof. A. Tagliaferro
Contact: Prof. M. Genovese
Contact: Prof. G. Durin
Classical and quantum machanics methods areemployed to study and predict: Optical and electronic properties of
nanomaterials
Surface and Interfaces Phenomena
With applications to: Catalysis & CO2 valorization
Membrane technologies
Solar cells & energy harvestingContacts: Prof. G. Cicero, Dr. F. Risplendi
Computational Condensed Matter Physics
Materials and devices for Energy harvesting and storageEnergy storage in supercapacitors: 2D nanomaterials
Innovative architectures
Integration of harvesting and storage devices
Blue energy: Graphene membranes for salinity gradient power
Raw materials recovery from sea water
Synthesis & physical/chemical characterization of functional nanomaterials and devicesContacts: Proff. A. Lamberti, C.F. Pirri, S. Bianco, E. Tresso
Biosensors
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Contacts: Proff. M. Cocuzza, C.F. Pirri, Dr. F. Frascella,Dr. S. Marasso
Development of a versatile biosensing platformfor low concentration molecules detection inbiomedical, food and agricultural fields.Materials 2D photonics based on hyperbolic
metamaterials arranged in a planar geometry(HMM)
Organic Field-Effect and Electro ChemicalTransistor based sensor for real-timemicrofluidic detection finalized as hightechnology Lab on Chip devices
Superconductivity and Magnetism Unconventional superconductivity: fundamental studies and
applications
2D materials for novel electronic devices: characterization & electrochemical gating
Heavy-ion irradiation of superconducting and magneticmaterials & study of radiation hardness
Magnetic/superconducting heterostructures for spintronics, magnetic shielding and power applications
Contacts: Proff. D. Daghero, R. Gerbaldo, G. Ghigo, R. Gonnelli, L. Gozzelino, F. Laviano
Nonlinear elastic waves and metamaterials; Computational Fluid Dynamics
Nonlinear elasticity Physical mechanisms responsible for hysteresis and memory Nonlinear Non Destructive Testing (NL-NDT) Nonlinear Imaging
Metamaterials and phononic crystals: Optimization and design of new bio-inspired metastructures:
hierarchical metamaterials Tunable metamaterials: photo-responsive metamaterials Metamaterial applications
Wave propagation in nonlinear/structured media
Tunable and bioinspired metamaterials
Metasensors and nonlinear imaging Computational Fluid Dynamics Applied to Atmospheric Cloud
Physics
Contacts: Proff. A. Gliozzi, M. Scalerandi
Contact: Prof. D. Tordella
Nanophysics and Quantum Systems, Superconductivity
Decoherence and dissipation effects in quantum systems and
opto-electronics
Phase coherent phenomena in nanophysics
Topological insulators and superconductors
Strongly correlated low-dimensional systems
Quantum phases and dynamics of bosonic systems
Quantum Information and Entanglement
Study of the properties of superconducting materials
Detecting gravitational waves through quantum fluids
Contacts: Proff. F. Rossi, D. Girolami F. Dolcini, R. Iotti, A. Montorsi, V. Penna, F. Raffa, L. Tocchio , G. Ummarino
Physics of Complex Systems
Advanced variational methods for statistical inference.
Statistical modeling of biological sequence data for structural, functional, and medical applications.
Inverse statistical modeling of epidemic dynamics
Large scale organism-wide metabolic modeling
Mathematical modeling of vesicular traffic in cells
Statistical models of lost-transcriptional regulation
Algorithm for machine learning
Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (NESM)
Analysis of high-dimensional long-range correlated data arrays for interdisciplinary applications (www.polito.it/noiselab)
Contacts: Proff. A. Braunstein, L. Dall’Asta, A Pagnani, R. Zecchina
Contact: Prof. A. Carbone
Contact: Prof. A. Pelizzola
Experimental Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Study of the properties of QGP at ALICE experiment (Geneva)• Data Analysis: Study of the charm production and flow;Study
of the matter and anti-matter production; Applying Machine Learning techniques
• Software Development: Optimization of algorithms usedto determine the collision point of the colliding lead ions; development of Graphical Process Units;
• Detector R&D. Contacts: Proff. M. Agnello, S. Bufalino
Contacts: Dr. V. Capirossi, Proff. F. Iazzi, A. Lavagno, Dr. F. Pinna
Study of heavy ion double charge exchange reactions in the search for the double-beta decay processes (NUMEN-INFN collaboration)
Search for dark matter in PADME-INFN experiment
Nuclear Physics and Plasma Physics
Plasma Physics and Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion: understanding and the prediction of Tokamak fusion experiments
Hadron and quark-gluon plasma phase transition in compressed baryonic matter regime
Bulk properties of the neutron stars and phase transitions into the core
Merger of compact stars and the phenomenological implications: gravitational waves and gamma ray bursts
Contacts: Proff. A. Lavagno, F. Porcelli
Supergravity and AdS/CFT
Study of Supergravity models in diverse dimensions and their “hidden symmetries”
Gauged supergravities and their black-hole/black-brane solutions with application to holography
AdS/CFT in supergravity and applications to the description of graphene-like 2D-materials
BPS solutions in Chern-Simons theories in D=5
Contacts: Proff. L. Andrianopoli, M. Trigiante
Laboratories:
Nanosciences labs
Vibrational Spectroscopy and Nano-Optics lab
Optics and Acoustics
Memristive devices
Laboratories:
Advanced microscopy
X-Lab (Materials and Processes for Micro & Nano-Technologies)• «Energy» Lab; Advanced morpho./structur./composit. Characterization;
Advanced optical characterization; Chemical Functionalization and Biosensing
• Smart materials for 3D printing technologies; Cell printing; Organ-on-Chip – technologies for organ models, tissue growth and release of drugs
Transmission Electron Microscopy Focus Ion BeamNano-IR optical
spectroscopy/microscopy
DLP 3D printing
Laboratories
Superconducting Tunnel & Andreev-Reflection Spectroscopy
Cryogenic Field Effect
Scanning Probe Microscopy & Spectroscopy
Analysis of Electromagnetic Properties of Materials laboratory
Magneto-optic visualization Lab
Microwave Characterization and Magnetic Susceptibility Laboratory
Superconductivity Laboratory
Laboratories
Nanomaterials for composites and photocatalysis
Noiselab :
Transport and noise properties of low dimensional electronic systems,
such as Quantum Well and Quantum Dot Heterostructures and Josephson Junction
Arrays
Experimental and Theoretical Physics
Academic career: post-doc research positions in Italy and abroad
Career in research institutes (e.g. INRiM, CNR, INFN, etc.)
Data analytics in private sector (insurance, automotive etc.)
Start-up high-tech sector
Industrial research and development (especially in the field of materials science)
Scientific editions (editor of international scientific journals)
Physics teaching in high school
Testimonials
Michela FRACASSO, currently PhD student, 35th cycle. Her research activity is in Experimental Physics. She is the representative of the PhD students in Physics at Politecnico;
Dr. Andrea RICHAUD, former PhD student within the Doctorate Programme in Physics at ScuDo. Presently postdoc at SISSA-ISAS (Trieste) in the Condensed Matter group. He attained his PhD degree in February 2020.