BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Present position Research Associate at "La Sapienza" University (Rome, Italy). Project "Structure and relaxation processes in Room Temperature Ionic Liquid" (Supervisor Prof. R. Caminiti)

2006-2009 Collaboration on the research project "Structural and dynamical characterization in RTIL" at the I.P.C.F. (Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici del CNR, Messina)

2004-2005 Research Associate in the Department Struktur- Forschung of the Hahn-Meitner Institut ,Berlin, Germany (Now Helmholtz-Zentum Berlin). Research tasks: a) Study of the correlation between microscopic dynamics and structure in amorphous systems; b) Development of a new data collection protocol for time-of -flight neutron spectroscopy at spallation sources

1999-2003 Ph.D student at Berlin Neutron Scattering Center (BENSC, HMI, Germany). Topic of research "Study of the dynamical nature of the glass transition in inorganic glasses and polymers by means of the quasy elastic neutron scattering "(supervisor Prof. Dr. F. Mezei)

1995-1998 Research Associate at the Laboratory of Spectrometry and Radiometry, Institute of Ecology and Radio-Protection of the National Nuclear Research Center, Kurchatov (Kazakhstan). Research task - analysis of water and ground samples, collected at the atomic polygon of Semipalatinsk for the determination of elements spectra and radioactivity level.

Educational Background

2004 Ph.D. in Physics (Dr. rer nat.) at the Technical University of Berlin (Germany). Title of the dissertation "Study of microscopic dynamics at the glass transition by means of neutron scattering" (Supervisor Prof. Dr. Mezei).
2002 Diploma Thesis in Physics at Technical University of Berlin (Germany) Title: "Investigation of a new method of data collection and data reduction for neutron scattering time of flight spectroscopy" (Supervisor Prof. Dr. Mezei)
1990-1995 Diploma in Physics at the "Saken Seifulin" State University of Astana (Kazakhstan) with "summa cum laude" honor, equipollent to Diploma in Physics of the University of Messina with full marks (110/110 cum laude)
1980-1990 Diploma of secondary and High School, awarded with the Silver Medal for the excellence

Scientific Skills and Competences

Extensive knowledge in the fields of the :
• Theoretical and Experimental physics
• Physics of the condensed matter (glasses and polymers)
• Methods of neutron and X-ray scattering

Broad experience in the various experimental techniques, such as
• inelastic and quasielastic neutron scattering (time-of-flight and Neutron Spin Echo spectroscopies)
• neutron and X-Ray Wide and Small Angle diffraction
• inelastic X-Ray scattering
• dielectric Spectroscopy
• Calorimetry
• ϒ, β-spettrometry and λ - β - ϒ radiometry;
Much of her research activity was and is currently being undertaken at Large Scale Facilities, such as reactors and synchrotrons . She is the co-proposer and participant in several research projects at the Synchrotrons such as ESRF (Grenoble, France), Elettra (Triesta, Italy) and at the Neutron Scattering Centers such as ILL (Grenoble, France), LLB (Paris, France), ISIS (UK) and BENSC (HZB, Berlin; Germany). Some of her experimental resulst have been chosen as a High lights of the Anual Reports at some Facilities.

Academic Visits

2002 Visiting scholar ( three months) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA) (Prof. A. Hurd).

2000 Visiting scholar (three months) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA) (Dr.)C.Bennet.