Oriano Francescangeli is Full Professor of Experimental Physics at the Polytechnic University of Marche (UnivPM), Ancona. He received his degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Ancona (UniAN) in 1984. After a one-year work experience as Project Engineer in a private company and a few years of research-fellow activity in the physics of matter, in 1988 he started his academic career as Assistant Professor at the UniAN where, in 1998, was appointed Associate Professor of Experimental Physics. In 2011 he was appointed Full Professor of Experimental Physics at the UnivPM and, since then, he has carried out research and teaching activity at the Department of Materials, Environmental Sciences and Urban Planning (SIMAU) of the UnivPM. Since1999 he has been the Director of the Advanced Laboratory for X-ray Diffraction (LADIX) at the SIMAU Department and, from 2015 to 2021, he has served as Director of the SIMAU Department and Member of the Academic Senate of the UnivPM. His scientific interests span the field of condensed matter physics, primarily investigated by means of X-ray diffraction and (electro-)optical techniques. He is an expert of X.-ray and neutron scattering techniques and is regular user of the main european large-scale facilities for synchrotron radiation and neutron scattering. He is the author of more than 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has been invited speaker at several international conferences. He has been responsible or principal investigator of many national and international research projects.
Francesco Vita is Associate Professor in Experimental Physics at the SIMAU Department, Faculty of Engineering, of the Polytechnic University of Marche (Ancona, Italy).
His research activity focuses on the experimental study of soft condensed matter, with a particular interest in the structural properties of liquid crystals and polymers, primarily investigated by means of X-ray diffraction and scattering techniques. The goal is exploring the relationship between nanoscale supramolecular structure and macroscopic physical properties in different kinds of unconventional liquid crystals. Recently studied systems comprise: potentially polar and/or biaxial bent-core nematics; liquid crystalline polymer-graphene oxide composites with extraordinary mechanical properties; lipid-based lyotropic mesophases for drug delivery applications. The research activity is carried out in collaboration with several foreign groups and institutions and involves frequent experiments at large international facilities for synchrotron radiation (ESRF, Elettra, Alba). Complementary topics of interest include: the optical and electro-optical investigation of liquid crystals, the characterization and nano-patterning of thin films, holography, photonic and optofluidic devices
Daniele Eugenio Lucchetta is Associate Professor of Experimental Physics at Università Politecnica delle Marche, at SIMAU Department. He is Member of the committee of the Doctorate School, Head of the Optics and Optoacoustics reasearch group, and responsible of the relative laboratories, and Coordinator of the advanced course in Engineering of Musical Instruments. He has near to 100 publications in peer-review international journals, with a total number of citations 942 and an H index of 17.
His main research activities are addressed to: Physical characterization of polymer dispersed NLCs (PDLCs), Fabrication of phase only electrically-driven light modulators based on Nano-PDLC materials, Fabrication of holographic gratings based on photo-sensitive organic compounds to be used for high density data storage applications (holographic disks), Development of filters and light switching devices to be used in the field of integrated optics and telecommunications, Fabrication of optical-pumped organic lasers (plastic lasers) working as distributed feedback (DFB) devices or as Distributed Bragg Reflectors (DBR), Surface phenomena and Holography on Photomobile thin films.
Henry Adenusi is Assistant Professor of Experimental Physics in the SIMAU department (Faculty of Engineering) at Marche Polytechnic University.He completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Hong Kong – Hong Kong Quantum AI Lab, joint centre with the California Institute of Technology, investigating next generation energy storage materials. Also, he received his PhD from Sapienza University of Rome, recipient of the ‘Vito Volterra’ International PhD Fellowship.His research activity includes condensed matter, energy storage systems and liquid crystalline materials, merging computational (DFT, semi-empirical & ab initio) and experimental (neutrons, spectroscopy & X-ray) characterisation techniques.
Matteo Lanciotti holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Sapienza University of Rome, earned in March 2022. In October 2024, he graduated cum laude from the same university with a Master’s degree in Physics, specializing in Condensed Matter. His thesis, titled “Study of PNIPAM Microgels: The Influence of Crosslinking Density”, was carried out at the laboratories of the Partnership for Soft Condensed Matter (PSCM) and the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France. Since November 2024, he has been pursuing a Ph.D. at the SIMAU Department of the Polytechnic University of Marche.