Session 8 Materials SPM
Laura Fumagalli is Reader in Condensed Matter Physics at the Department of Physics & Astronomy of the University of Manchester (UK) and staff researcher of the National Graphene Institute. She graduated in Electronic Engineering in 2002 (Polytechnic University of Milan - Italy and École Superior d’Electricité - France). She received her PhD in Information Technology in 2006 with a doctoral thesis on low-noise widebandwidth amplifiers at the Department of Electronics of Polytechnic University of Milan. She worked as post-doctoral researcher (2006-2010) and then lecturer (2010-2014) at the Department of Electronics of the University of Barcelona (Spain), where she pioneered the development of a novel nanoscopic technique - Scanning Dielectric Microscopy - that allows measuring the dielectric properties of matter on the nanoscale using a scanning probe. She joined the Condensed Matter Physics group of the University of Manchester (UK) in 2015. She was awarded the prestigious Ramon y Cajal fellowship by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science in 2014 and the ERC-Consolidator grant award ‘Liquid2DM’ by the European Research Council in 2018. Her research focuses on the study of electric and dielectric properties of bio and non-bio materials on the nano- and atomic scale, with particular interest in nanoconfined water and the solidliquid interface, biomembranes and biomolecules (DNA, proteins), van der Waals crystals and their heterostructures.
Dr Laura Fumagalli is the winner of the 2021 RMS Medal for Atomic Force Microscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy, this will be presented at mmc2021.