Education:
2025 - ongoing: PhD student in 41st cycle of PhD Programme in “Nanoscience for Medicine and Environment”, working within the research project “Solar PolygEneration Collector for combined heaT, poweR, hydrogen fUel and wastewater treatMent – SPECTRUM”. Funded by the European Union under grant agreement no. 101172891. www.project-spectrum.eu
2025 - Master in Physics, curriculum “Material Physics and Nanoscience”, cum laude, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
2022 - Bachelor in Physics, University of Trento
Research experience:
2023 - Research assistant at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento) in the Sustainable Energy (SE) research center
Conferences:
2026 - MatSUS26 Spring (Barcelona, ES) - Poster “Operando Spectroscopy of Redox Dynamics in Hematite/NiMo Photoanodes”
2026 - EcatalytiX-II (Strasbourg, FR) - Oral “Operando Spectroscopy of Redox Dynamics in Hematite/NiMo Photoanodes”
Beamtime participation:
2026 – Proposal ID: CH-7943 (STD) “Operando PEC-XAS analysis of Cu SAPCs supported on defective TiO2 photoanodes”. PI: R. Mazzaro
2026 - Proposal ID: CH-7821 (STD) “Probing the limits of frequency-modulated operando PEC characterization of charge carriers dynamics in heterostructured photoanodes”. PI: R. Mazzaro
2025 - Proposal ID: A08-1-1129 (CRG) “Operando PEC-XAS characterization of Ni-based co-catalysts on hematite photoanodes: shedding light into substrate/catalyst electronic coupling”. PI: R. Mazzaro.