Personale docente

Curriculum Vitae of prof. Luigi Cristofolini

Birth: October 4^th 1966, in Trieste - Italy

Education
1985      “Maturità” with full marks (60/60) Liceo Scientifico E. Fermi, Bologna
1989      Summer Student at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL (USA)
1990      Degree in Physics (110 cum laude) at the University of Parma
1994      Ph.D. in Physics

Work

Academic commitments, UNIPR

• Head of the “Laboratory for Molecular Nanotechnologies”
• Member of the Doctoral Studies Committee in Physics
• Delegate for “applied research and technology transfer” of my Department
• Member of “Commissione Paritetica Docenti Studenti” of my Department
• Advisor for several undergraduate, master and PhD thesis in physics
• Teaching
  • "Laboratory of Physics 3" for the degree in Physics,
  • "Physical Methods" in the degree in Biotechnology,
  • "Soft Matter and Interfaces" in the PhD course in Physics.

Research interests:

I am an experimental physicist, I investigate complex interfacial systems such as foams and emulsions, and nanostructures, with an eye to applications in technology and nanomedicine. At the same time, I keep a curious eye on fundamental problems, as the behaviour of colloids, drugs and proteins near or at interfaces, understanding of arrest phenomenology and glass transition.

I employ different techniques: spectroscopies (diffusing wave spectroscopy, X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy and DLS) microscopy, surface and interfacial rheology. I have been among the first to perform XPCS in grazing incidence geometry on a Langmuir monolayer, and was invited to contribute reviews and talks on this subject.