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To address “Hot topics in ultrafast science”, LUXEM organized 3 guest lectures from internationally recognized experts in:

• Ultrafast Electron Microscopy – Dr. Gianmaria Vanacore, Univerista’ di Milano Bicocca
• Ultrafast Spectroscopy – Dr. Laura Cattaneo, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik – Heidelberg
• Ultrafast Science at Free-Electron Lasers and synchrotrons – Dr. Camila Bacellar – SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut

The Ultrafast Laser system and EUV source is shipped and installed in our Lab in Pavia!

We provide a comprehensive atomic-scale description of the purely thermal response of lead-halide perovskites in a temperature range relevant for realistic applications. Thermal-induced changes are rationalized in terms of displacive phase transitions, which are a consequence of the phonon anharmonicity of the inorganic lattice.

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The “Incontri di Fisica Moderna” organized by the Physics Department, University of Pavia, are open Bachelor and Master students. Giulia Mancini contributes with a talk entitled: “Ultrafast lasers: new laboratory-scale synchrotrons”.

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Dr. Bevis MSCA project DECIPHER is awarded funding from the HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01 Action. Fostering excellence in research & innovation, this prestigious recognition from the EU will enable Dr. Bevis to work in a joint collaboration across LUXEM (Italy), LUMES (Switzerland) and DrX Works (The Netherlands) toward advances in ultrafast electron imaging.

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Onsite training on LUXEM’s Pantheon system at KMLabs prior to shipment to Pavia!

Prof. Giulia Fulvia Mancini and Dr. Charles Bevis join a second beamtime in ultrafast imaging science at the DiProI beamline, FERMI.

Giulia Fulvia Mancini wins the 2021 Young Scientist Prize in Optics for her “contributions to imaging and scattering of nanostructured materials using high- harmonic soft X-ray sources and research on extreme ultraviolet imaging”.

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The Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) welcomed LUXEM graduate students C. Grova and S. Restelli for Beamtime LACUS002824 funded by LASERLAB EUROPE.

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Optical Monolithic Tables are delivered and installed in the Lab while infrastructure upgrades progress to host the new ultrafast laser system!

Dr. Charles Bevis, PostDoc at LUXEM, joins the DiProI@FERMI Team for Beamtime in imaging science.

LUXEM welcomes Carmelo Grova, Ph.D. candidate in Physics, with the first official group event.

Dr. Oliviero Cannelli has defended his thesis entitled “Photo- and thermally-induced electronic and structural dynamics in perovskites and transition metal oxides” as the result of his research activity at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne with Prof. Majed Chergui (LSU/LACUS) and Prof. Giulia Mancini (now LUXEM, UniPv).

The Stati Generali are for Regione Lombardia one of the main moments of confrontation with its stakeholders – Companies, Universities, Technological Clusters, Research Bodies, etc. – on the new frontiers of research and innovation and on regional development strategies on the subject.

Prof. Mancini (UniPv), Prof. Saccomandi (Polimi), and Prof. Bollati (Unimib), as ERC Grant-winning researchers at Lombardy universities, converse with the Councilor for Education, University, Research, Innovation and Simplification, Fabrizio Sala, at the presence of the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, Prof. Maria Cristina Messa.

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The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella at the inauguration of the Academic Year 2021-2022 of the University of Pavia, on the occasion of the 660^th anniversary of the University.

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Giulia Mancini led a joint experiment at FXE (local contact Frederico Lima) of her own team and Prof. Majed Chergui’s team from EPFL in late August.

At FXE, it was possible to perform simultaneously time-resolved X-ray emission spectroscopy on a spinel Co₃o₄ 27nm thin film, unraveling crucial structural and electronic information about relaxation cascade and clarifying the involvement of Co(II) and Co(III) centers are in the charge carrier dynamics.

Light activation of lead-halide perovskites induces polaronic lattice distortions, here quantified with atomic-level precision. Electron–phonon coupling drives the crystal changes, which are unlocked upon charge-carrier recombination and in the absence of thermal effects. This study clarifies the structure–property relationships in out-of-equilibrium conditions, underpinning the developments of perovskite-based devices. Image credit: Balázs Őrley.

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Given her scientific track-record and in recognition of the recently awarded European Research Council Starting Grant (ERC StG 2019), Dr. Giulia Fulvia Mancini was named Associate Professors in Physics by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR).

Prof. Mancini will join the Department of Physics at the University of Pavia, Italy.

Cariplo Foundation’s highlight of Prof. Mancini’s research group activity, supported by the FC Grant 2020-2544 – NanoFast

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Dr. Mancini received the prestigious international award “Mildred Dresselhaus Guest Junior Professorship Program 2020” from the Ultrafast Imaging Center (CUI) of Hamburg for “excellent scientific merits”.

Each year, this award is given to a successful Senior Scientist, and to a Junior Scientist with high potential. Based on a selective competition, CUI established the visiting professorship program, to which Mildred Dresselhaus of the MIT Physics Department gave her name. The program provides excellent research conditions to enable the researcher to work at CUI for a period of between 2 and 6 months, and to serve as a role model for young women in the natural sciences. The program also makes it possible to attract internationally renowned researchers to Hamburg and to create new opportunities for cooperation and collaboration.

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