Paolo Bettotti

Industrial Engineer (PS3) (1995)

MSc in Material Science at the University of Padua ("cum laude", 2001)

PhD in Physics at the University of Trento (2005)

2003 Teaching Assistant - Physics course (Mechanics) at Engineering Faculty

2004 Teaching Assistant - Physics course (Mechanics) at Engineering Faculty

2010 “Photovoltaics” course module at the 2nd level master “Nano-Micro” organized jointly by University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler

2011 Teaching Assistant - General Chemistry course at BSc Biotechnology

2012 Teaching Assistant - General Chemistry course at BSc Biotechnology

2013 "Optical properties of nitride based nanostructures" - Practical Course within FP7 research program FUNEA

2013 Instructor - Laboratory of Advanced Photonics at MSc Physics

2014 Instructor - Laboratory of Advanced Photonics at MSc Physics

2015 Instructor - Laboratory of Advanced Photonics at MSc Physics

2016 Instructor - Laboratory of Advanced Photonics at MSc Physics

2016 Instructor - Fisica2 at BSc Biomolecular Science and Technology

2017 Instructor - Laboratory of Advanced Photonics at MSc Physics

This is the link to my personal website.

Porous nanostructures:

Initially I investigated the properties of 1D & 2D photonic crystals made on porous silicon.More recently I broadened the use these porous nanosponges (from optical sensing to antimatter; from drug delivery to nanofluidics).The control over the surface state is fundamental to give to the material the desired functionalities, thus proper functionalization strategies and characterization techniques have been applied/developed.

Nanocellulose:

While I was looking for a transparent substrate to embed fluorescent Si-QD, I learned about nanocellulose (serendipity! :) ). By investigating its possible use as responsive "smart" material me and my collegues found interesting applications of this material as mechanical actuator and core-shell forming system.

Scanning Probe Microscopy:

Is a flexible characterization technique that I applied to different type of nanostructured materials: from investigation of growth mechanisms of organic semiconductors, to analysis of exosomes.

AWARDED GRANTS:

- (Author and researcher in charge) CRS2006: "Atto-dispenser of Nanostructures
integrated into a scanning probe microscope"
- (Author and researcher in charge) Marie-Curie COFUND (POSTDOC)2006: “Functionalization
of polymeric slot waveguides on silicon substrate for sensing applications”
- (Author and Workpackage leader) FP7-ICT-POSITIVE (Ref. 257401): “POSITIVE - A highly integrated and sensitive POrous SIlicon based lab on a chip for multiple quantitaTIVE monitoring of Food allergies at point of care”
- (Author and Coordinator) FIRB-Futuro in ricerca (Ref. RBFR12OO1G): “NEMATIC - Nanoporous matErials: self asseMbled blAckboard to study sTructure and InteraCtions
of DNA”

2001 Silicon workshop, Genova (Italy)
2002 Silicon workshop, Genova (Italy)
2009 (invited talk) NANOSIL Workshop on Convergence of Electronics and Photonics , 1-2
Oct. 2009, Aachen (Germany)
2010 Fotonica2010, 25-27 may 2010, Pisa (Italy)
2010 OSA IPR & PS Conference, 25-27 july 2010, Monterey CA (USA)
2010 (invited talk) ICOOMAP, 15-20 august, Budapest (Hungary)
2011 (invited talk) CLEO, 22-26 may, Munich (Germany)
2011 (invited talk) 24-26 august, Nanophotonics for Sensing and Nonlinear Optics, Adelaide
(Australia)
2011 (invited talk) TICME, 12-14 december, Trento (Italy)
2012 Fotonica2012, 15-17 may, Firenze (Italy)
2012 Sensors2012, 28-31 october, Taipei (Taiwan)
2013 (invited talk) FOTONICA2013, 21-23 may, Milan (Italy)
2013 FISMAT2013, 09-13 september, Milan (Italy)
2013 (invited talk) ASME2013, 15-21 november, San Diego CA (USA)
2014 SPIE BiOS2014, 01-06 february, San Francisco CA (USA)