Giulia Fulvia Mancini
Associate Professor in Physics & Head of Research
Laboratory for Ultrafast X-ray and Electron Microscopy
University of Pavia
Department of Physics
Office 2-53
Via Agostino Bassi 6
27100 Pavia (PV) – ITALY
Phone: +39 0382 98 7503
Email: giuliafulvia.mancini@unipv.it
Researcher unique identifiers:
ORCiD: 0000-0002-7752-2822
Scopus Author ID: 57201126139
Google Scholar: giulia fulvia mancini
Biography
CV/Resume
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Research Interests
Ultrafast Coherent Diffractive Imaging, Ptychography, Ultrafast X-rays and electrons science, High-Harmonic Generation (HHG), Orbital angular momentum beams, Chirality, Hybrid and ligand-coated nanoparticles supracrystals, Structure-properties relations, Free Electron Lasers, Excited-state Dynamics, Functional nanomaterials, Metrology
Publications
Professional Experience/Education
| 2021–now: | Tenured Associate Professor in Physics Department of Physics, University of Pavia, Italy P.I. of Laboratory for Ultrafast X-ray and Electron Microscopy (LUXEM)Research expertise: Characterization of structure-property relationships, order-disorder correlations and light-activated functionality in nanostructured hybrid materials and interfaces, in the ultrafast (10-15s) time and ultrasmall (10-10m) domains. Development of novel experimental time-resolved approaches based on coherent diffractive imaging with structured beams and scattering non-linear techniques, bridging tabletop and facility X-rays with electrons pulsed sources. |
| 2017–2021: | Senior Scientist – Team Leader Swiss Free Electron Laser (SwissFEL, PSI) and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory for Ultrafast Spectroscopy (EPFL, LSU), SwitzerlandResearch expertise: Charge-carrier dynamics in functional oxides and perovskites. Development of ultrafast spectrometers (TR-XES, TR-RIXS) and correlative spectroscopy and diffraction experiments (TR-XAS and TR-XRD) at Free-Electron Lasers. SwissFEL and EXFEL beamline commissioning, pilot & users experiments. |
| 2015–2017: | Postdoctoral Research Associate JILA (Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics), University of Colorado-Boulder and NIST, Kapteyn-Murnane Group (USA)Research expertise: Dynamic, quantitative and record resolution in X-ray Coherent Diffractive Imaging (CDI) of nanostructured materials and interfaces using soft X-rays, from tabletop light sources based on High-order Harmonic Generation. |
| 2015: | Ph.D. Degree in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering – Special Distinction École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory for Ultrafast Microscopy and Electron Scattering (EPFL, LUMES), SwitzerlandResearch expertise: Photo-induced ordering/disordering phenomena in ligand-capped nanoparticle supracrystals. Development of a state-of-the-art Ultrafast Electron Diffraction (UED) and Speckle Imaging system with tunable spatial coherence. |
| 2010: | M. Sc. in Physical Chemistry – summa cum laude Physical Chemistry Department, University of Pavia, Italy Diploma Degree in Science & Technology University School for Advanced Studies IUSS – Pavia, Italy |
| 2008: | B. Sc. in Physical Chemistry – summa cum laude University of Pavia, Italy |
Funding ID & Career Advancement
| 2026: | PI of ERC Proof of Concept 101271431 STUNNED – 150’000 € “Ultrafast, High-resolution, X-ray Microscopy for Nanometrology: Single-shot Hyperspectral Ptychography in a Compact and Cost-effective Device” European research Council (ERC) |
| 2025: | X-lites Executive Leadership Committee – Formal representative of NEXT COST Action at the consortium “Extreme Light in Intensity, Time, and Space (X-lites) network” Ohio State University |
| 2024: | National Scientific Qualification to Full Professorship – experimental physics of matter and applications (PHYS-03/A, 02/PHYS-03) Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) |
| 2023: | PI of PRIN 2022 2022PR7CCY DynaMAT – 207’477 € “Ultrafast dynamics in next generation sustainable materials” Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) |
| 2023: | Vice-Chair and co-PI of COST ACTION CA22148 NEXT – 680’000 € “An international network for Non-linear Extreme Ultraviolet to hard X-ray techniques” European Research Council (ERC) |
| 2023: | PI of ERC Proof of Concept 101271431 HYPER – 150’000 € “Real-time, High-throughput, Coherent X-ray Microscopy: from Large-Scale Installations to Tabletop device” European research Council (ERC) |
| 2022: | PI of FARE – MUR grant R207A8MNNJ – PiXiE – 378’880 € “Tailoring intra-and inter structural interaction in hybrid suPerlattices: correlative ultrafast X-ray and cryo-electron microscopy” Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) |
| 2022: | Host PI of HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01 – DECIPHER – 215’937 € “Dynamic Electron Imaging with Phase Retrieval” – Dr. Charles Bevis Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions |
| 2021: | co-PI of Competence center for sustainable bio-nanotechnology – 1’012’500 € “Development of collaboration agreement with Universities for Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer” Bando Regione Lombardia |
| 2020: | PI of Fondazione Cariplo Grant 2020-2544 NanoFast – 328’562 € “Probing functionality at the nanoscale: multimodal electron and soft X-ray ultrafast imaging” Fondazione Cariplo |
| 2020: | Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Professorship – 30’000 € in research & travel funding The program provides excellent research conditions (funds for organizing workshops, travel funds, research budget, and housing costs) in order to enable a successful awardee to work within CUI for a period of two to six months and serve as a role model for young researchers in the physical sciences as well as attract world leading researchers to Hamburg. Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter” – University of Hamburg |
| 2019: | PI of ERC Starting Grant 851154 ULTRAIMAGE – 1’894’577 € “Advanced EUV/soft X-ray microscopy in the ultrafast regime: imaging functionality of nanomaterials across length scales” European Research Council (ERC) |
| 2019: | ASPASIA Grant – 50’000 € For top-ranked VIDI grant winners towards the promotion to Associate Professor. Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands, and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) |
| 2019: | PI of VIDI-NWO Grant VI.Vidi.192.037 – 800’000 € “Controlling functionality in the ultrafast regime: advanced microscopy of nanoparticle superlattices” Dutch Research Council (NWO) |
| 2019: | Rosalind Franklin Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship – 800’000 € University of Groningen Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science |
| 2017: | NCCR MUST: InterMUST Grant – 90’000 CHF Swiss National Science Foundation |
| 2015: | PI of SNSF Early.PostDoc Mobility Grant (P2ELP2_158887) – 51’000 CHF Swiss National Science Foundation |
Honors & Awards
| 2024: | National Scientific Qualification to Full Professorship experimental physics of matter and applications (PHYS-03/A, 02/PHYS-03) Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) |
| 2021: | ICO/IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics for “contributions to imaging and scattering of nanostructured materials using high- harmonic soft X-ray sources and research on extreme ultraviolet imaging” International Commission for Optics and The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics |
| 2020: | Mildred Dresselhaus Prize for Junior Researchers for “outstanding scientific achievements” Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter” – University of Hamburg |
| 2019: | Aspasia Prize – awarded to top 3% ranked VIDI grant winners NWO – Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Dutch Research Council (NWO) |
| 2016: | Special distinction for Ph.D. thesis “Femtosecond Diffractive Imaging of Structures, Charge and Spin Textures” Research Commission – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland |
Track Record
Scientific output:
- h-index: 23
- Invited talks > 30
Memberships and panels
- DFG German Research Foundation – Priority Programme SPP 2558 Panel member
- FERMI Free Electron Laser – Proposal peer-Review Panel (PRP) member
- FWO National Research Foundation Flanders – W&T2 Panel member
- ETH Zurich Tenure-track in Inorganic Chemistry: selection committee member
- User Organization Executive Committee – European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL)
- Vice-Chair of the International COST Action CA22148“NEXT: An international network for Non-linear Extreme Ultraviolet to hard X-ray techniques”
- X-lites Executive Leadership Committee – Formal representative of NEXT COST Action at the consortium “Extreme Light in Intensity, Time, and Space (X-lites) network”
Reviewer for Funding Agencies, PRPs, Journals
- Grants external reviewer: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation – DFG), Dutch Research Council (NWO), LASERLAB-EUROPE research infrastructures (EU), COST Association (EU), Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Agency for the Promotion of European Research (APRE).
- Proposals Review for international large-scale facilities: Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
- Peer – Review in Scientific Journals: Editorial groups: AAAS, ACA, ACS, Cell Press, Elsevier, Nature, OPTICA, World Scientific.
Conferences: Organizer, Technical program committee member, Chair
- NICE 2026 – “Workshop on Nonlinear Imaging and Coherent Effects”
- EOSAM 2025 – European Optical Society Annual Meeting: Face2Phase meeting on computational imaging
- FISMAT 2025 – CNISM: “From ultrafast magnetism to quantum materials: new insights with new instruments”
- CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025 Committee – Ultrafast Optical Science: Technical Program – OPTICA
- SPICE workshop 2025: “Characterization and control of quantum materials with optical vortex beams”
- 2024 High Intensity Lasers and High Field Phenomena (HILAS 2024): Technical Program – OPTICA
- NEXT “An international network for Non-linear Extreme ultraviolet to hard X-ray Techniques” COST Action Annual Meetings 2024 & 2025
Editorial activities:
- Guest Editor for Small Structures (Wiley): collection “Structure and dynamics of halide perovskite semiconductors”
- Associate Editor of Chemical Physics (Elsevier) and member of the Editorial Board
- Invited perspective article in Communications Physics (Nature Springer): imaging and study of materials, for the Collection “High-Energy Light Sources – From Tabletop to Large Facilities”
Faculty:
- Research Commission member – Physics Department, University of Pavia
- Faculty Council member – Doctoral School in Physics, University of Pavia
- Doctoral School in Physics – Teaching Body & Colloquia Committee member, University of Pavia (IT)
- Physics Department Research Committee (Commissione Ricerca) member, University of Pavia (IT)
- Tenure-track selection committee member in Inorganic Chemistry – ETH Zurich (CH)
- External evaluator for tenure and promotion to Associate professorship – Colorado School of Mines (USA)
Technology Transfer:
- 1 patent deposited and 1 licensed, UCBoulder, R&D coordinator DARPA and KMLabs Inc. (USA)
Mentorship and outreach:
- Mentor for Women in Science platforms: DynaMENT (D); NCCR-MUST (CH); Fix the Leaky Pipeline (CH, I); Women in Science Association (USA)
- Outreach and Dissemination national and international activities: NEXT COST Action; SHARPER (SHAring Researchers’ Passion for Education and Rights, EU) European Researchers Night; Italian Association of Students in Physics (AISF); LAB2GO; UniPaviaExperience
