Samir Simon Suweis

Samir Suweis is Associate Professor at the Physics and Astronomy department, University of Padua.

 

He graduated in Physics in 2008 at the University of Padova, and later earned a doctorate in Environmental Engineering at the Ecole École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2011. After a visiting period as a researcher at the University of Princeton (NJ, USA ), since 2012 he works in the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Physics , where in 2016 he earned the position of Assistant Professor (RTDb). At present, he is Associate Professor.

 

His research work is at the interface between hydrology, ecology, and biology in the context of a theoretical framework provided by the physics of complex systems. His approach to these topics includes data mining, data analysis, statistical analysis, computational and analytic modeling.

 

He is author of numerous scientific publications in internationally renowned journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

 

From 2013 he teaches at the Master in Communication Sciences at the University of Padova.

 

For more info: @SamirSuweis or visit http://loop.frontiersin.org/people/294830/overview

Filippo Pisano

Filippo Pisano is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padua.

 

His research focuses on the development of next-generation tools and methods for optical neural interfaces, harnessing light-brain interactions for multimodal, bidirectional and minimally invasive communication with the brain.

 

He obtained his Master’s Degree in Physics at the University of Turin (2012) and his PhD in Physics at Institute of Photonics at the university of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK (2017), where he worked on largescale opto-electronic interfaces with neural circuits in the mouse retina. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, US (2015).

 

He was a Post-Doc (2017-2021) and a Researcher (2021-2023) at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia-Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, where he worked on photonic neural interfaces based on tapered optical fiber probes, partecipating in large european initiatives such as the DEEPER project (https://deeperproject.eu/).

 

Filippo is a recipient of the ERC Starting Grant 2024 for the project NEUROLIDAR: measuring neural dynamics with label-free optical multi-domain recordings.

Michele Allegra

Michele Allegra is Researcher (RTD-A) since September 2021 at the “Galileo Galilei” Physics and Astronomy Department and the Padua Neuroscience Center of the University of Padua.

 

Upon completing a Ph.D in quantum physics at University of Turin, my research interests switched towards data analysis for neuroscience and I joined the Statistical and Biological Physics sector of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, where I worked in Prof. Alessandro Laio’s group from 2015 to 2018. My research activity within Laio’s group focused on advanced clustering techniques and their application to the study of dynamically changing brain connectivity. I deepended my focus on neuroscience during my stay at the Timone Neuroscience Institute (CNRS) in Marseille (2018-2021), where I joined the BraiNets group led by Andrea Brovelli. In Marseille I worked on the characterization of directional connections in brain networks, and their disruption in stroke.

 

My main research interest is understanding functional connections and in the brain, and their relation with the underlying dynamics. In my research I use a wide variety of tools including dimensionality reduction, information theory, and model inference.

 

I am author of 18 publications, of which 11 as a leading author. I lecture on statistics, data analysis, inference and information theory to physics undergraduate students and Neuroscience PhD students.

 

Personal web page: https://micheleallegra.github.io/

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pwlWv54AAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao

Ramón Guevara

Ramón Guevara is currently a Research Technologist at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padua, Italy.

 

He is a biophysicist and neuroscientist. He studied physics, earning an M.Sc in theoretical condense matter physics at the University of Havana, and an M.Sc in high energy physics at the Abdus Salam International Center of Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. He defended his Ph.D thesis at the University of Trieste, Italy, in 2003, in the field of theoretical particle physics and cosmology, after which he worked at several universities, research institutes and hospitals in Italy, Spain, France and Canada. He is currently a Research Technologist at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padua, Italy.

 

His main research interest is the temporal coordination dynamics in the nervous system, and the investigation of the mechanisms and functional role of neuronal oscillations and synchronization in cognition and brain pathologies. He applies mathematical methods and concepts form the fields of nonlinear dynamics, statistical physics and information theory in his research. He has also contributed to the investigation of brain functional connectivity in non-invasive recordings of the human brain (electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography) from the methodological point of view. He has investigated how excessive neuronal synchronization leads to pathologies such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease, and the importance of noisy, non-synchronized activity for the emergence of consciousness. Other topics he has investigated includes diffusion processes in decisions making, time perception, stochastic resonance in vision and the role of brain oscillations in speech processing.

 

His teaching activity includes the Biomedical Modeling course for the Master in Biomedical Engineer at the University Paris Descartes in Paris, France, and the Physics and Biophysics course for the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Padua, held in Treviso, Italy, as well as shorter courses in more specialized topics at the University of Toronto in Canada and the Basque Center for Brain, Cognition and Language, in San Sebastian, Spain.

Filippo Romanato

Filippo Romanato is Full Professor at the Department of Physics “Galileo Galilei” of the University of Padua.

 

He leads of the local Nanodevices group. http://groups.dfa.unipd.it/nanodevices/index.html

 

Past positions

  • 2008 – 2019. Director of Laboratory for Nanofabrication of Nanodevices (LaNN). http://www.lann.it/
  • 2014- 2019. Group leader of the biomedical characterization group at the Institute of Pediatric Research – Fondazione Città della Speranza (Padova)
  • 2014 -2019. Scientific advisor for SM-Optics (Milan), multinational photonic system industry https://www.sm-optics.com/
  • 1998 Senior researcher and associate member of IOM-CNR, and member of scientific committee of the Facility of Nanofabrication at TASC. https://www.iom.cnr.it/lilit-beamline

 

Education

  • 1989 He graduated top score in Physics from the University of Padua in 1989;
  • 1994 PhD in Physics in 1994 at Dep. Of Physics in Padua

 

Professional experience
1994-1996 Post doc at Padua University.
1996-97 Postdoc at MIT at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
1997 Postdoc at the beamline of Materials Science at the European Synchrotron ESRF.
1998-2007 Resercher at TASC- CNR, beam line scientist and responsible
2005-2009 he was Professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

 

Scientific production and activity

238 scientific papers published in international journals and refereed conference proceedings.
5400+ citations, H-index 34 (source Google Scholar, un 2020);
65+ invited talks at international conferences, conferences, workshops, universities and research centers.
Director/organizer of 3 scientific conferences&workshops.

He is co-author of 14 international patents.

 

Scientific interests

His present activity is devoted to high resolution lithographic and fabrication techniques for the realization of three dimensional nano structures for photonics, plasmonics, and more in general for the development of nanodevices
Advanced optical microscopy (2-photon, STED, second and third harmonic generation).
Responsible for tissue decellularization and recellularization LIFE LAB project.
Responsible for the optical and nanoptical development of 2 photon microscope components.
He studied and developed photonic devices based on the orbital angular momentum of the light.
He is leading projects for the development bioplasmonic sensors, in collaboration with a interdisciplinary team constituted of physicist, chemists, biologists and engineers. Plasmonics is also exploited for photo voltaics applications.
He designed developed and simulated photonic and nano-optical devices.
From a methodological point of view he always pursued the possibility to combine new experiment in nanoscience with a model interpretation in view of a rapid application of the results.
He studied semiconductor epitaxial heterostructures proposing empirical and theoretical models and developing several structural characterization techniques devoted to devices performances optimization and fabrication.
He get experienced in synchrotron based techniques and for the design of beam lines.
He was appointed as beam line scientist in charge of the design and realization of X-ray lithography facility at Elettra Synchrotron and he was co-founder of the jointed micro and nano fabrication group.

 

Other professional activities

2012 Co-founder of spin-off company “Twist-off” for the development of the OAM radio technology, based on radio use with angular orbital moment. According to published articles and public experiments as well as to the submissive patent, a telecommunications company financed the spin-off with 650,000 euros for the development of the OAM radio. Beginning November 6th 2013.
2008 co-founded of ThunderNIL srl, Nanochallenge award for the best nanotechnology spin-off.
2009 co-founder of Protolab srl. spin-off for advanced materials and electronic devices
2010 co-founder of Twist-off, university spin-off for wireless telecommunications.
2014- 2017, scientific advisor of STRAND srl for fiber telecommunication