Physicist, he has more than 30 years of experience in the research and development of advanced functional materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage, including batteries and fuel cells. During ’80, Mustarelli worked to the development of innovative NMR instrumentation (several papers and two patents). This large experience allowed him to obtain the Cariplo Prize for Frontier Research in Chemistry 2011, thanks to the project “Electrochemical NMR microscope: the ultimate challenge”. The Prize jury included, among the others, the Nobel medalists Aaron Ciechanover and Gerhard Ertl. Currently, his research activity is mainly focused on the study of the correlation between structural and transport properties in functional materials for electrochemical devices. Since 2018 he is Full Professor of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at DMS-UNIMIB. He organized several top-level events in the field of electrochemistry, including the ISE Conference 1999 celebrating the 200 years of Volta’s discovery of pile. He is in the Editorial Board of several high-impact “peer-reviewed” journals. He authored/co-authored 259 papers on international peer-reviewed journals (SCOPUS), and holds 6 international patents. Google Scholar h-index = 49, with about 8700 citations (May 2020). Scopus h-index = 42, with more than 7200 citations (May 2020).

Electrochemist and expert of materials structure, he has 20 years of experience in the study of functional materials for electrochemical devices including batteries, fuel cells and electrochromic systems. Since 2015, he is Associate Professor at DMS-UNIMIB. During his career, he has been Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University with Prof. Yi Cui and Prof. R. A. Huggins (2008 and 2013) where he investigated the reaction of silicon nanowires in battery electrodes. His research interests are currently: inorganic materials for energy production and storage (alkaline ion batteries, supercaps), semi-conducting polymers and molecular materials for electro-optical applications (photovoltaic and electrochromism). Recent collaborations include: Prof. Do Kyung Kim (Korean Advanced Institute for Technology), Prof. Yi Cui (Stanford University) on nanostructured electrodes for lithium and sodium ion batteries. He is also involved in applied research on organic based electro-chromic materials for ophthalmic and smart windows (with the Fraunhofer Institute, Wurzburg). He was involved (partner or PI) in national, regional, and EU funding projects. He has authored/co-authored about more than 120 peer-reviewed papers (117 ISI), his h-indexes are 38 (Scholar) and 36 (WoS), the total citations are 7050 (Scholar).

Dr. Fiandra is Researcher and Aggregate Professor in Cytology and Comparative Anatomy at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DISAT), University of Milano Bicocca, and she is member of the Research Center POLARIS (Particular Matter and Health Risk) and of the Nanotoxicology Laboratory of UNIMIB. From 2010 to 2017, Dr. Fiandra coordinated pre-clinical studies mainly devoted to the use of nanotechnology for cancer therapy and diagnosis, and for biological barriers overcoming. In this sense, Dr. Fiandra designed and supervised in vitro and in vivo experiments aimed to assess nanoparticles 1) interaction, internalization and trafficking in cells and animal tissues, 2) boilogical activity on target and non-target cells, 3) ability in crossing biological barriers (i.e., BBB) in vitro and in vivo, biodistribution, pharmacokinetic properties, therapeutic effect, and acute and sub-acute toxicity in murine models. From 2018, Dr. Fiandra is involved in the safety evaluation of different types of nanoproducts by in vitro assays and on alternative vertebrate models (Zebrafish). Dr. Fiandra is author of 34 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Total citations (22/05/2020): 639; H-index: 15 (Scopus). Dr. Fiandra is a first-time participant to FET under Horizon 2020.

Dr. Benhabib graduated in condensed matter and nanotechnology from Pierre et Marie Curie – Sorbonne University – Paris, France, in 2012. She joined the group of Prof. Alain Sacuto in Paris Diderot-Sorbonne university-Paris to start her PhD. During her PhD, she investigated the electronic states of high T_c superconductors cuprates extensively using electronic Raman scattering. In 2016, she moved to Toulouse-France to join the group of Cyril Proust at the national laboratory of High magnetic fields (LNCMI-T) as a postdoctoral researcher. During the three years of her postdoc, she has been involved in various projects of strongly correlated systems such as high Tc superconductors and unconventional superconductors, which she used a high pulsed magnetic field up to 90 T combined to multiple techniques like electrical transport, ultrasounds, and contactless transport measurements. In 2019, she joined the group of Prof. Fabrizio Carbonne as a postdoctoral researcher. Currently, her center of interest is the investigation of quantum critical phenomena in 2D material through ultrafast electron diffraction. In parallel, she is deeply involved in the study of high Tc superconductors by time-resolved and angle-resolved photo-emission (tr-ARPES). She has authored/co-authored 11 peer-reviewed papers with an h-index of 6 (Scopus). Dr.Benhabib is a first-time participant to FET under Horizon 2020.

Fadil Iyikanat is a postdoctoral researcher in the Nanophotonics Theory Group at ICFO. He completed his Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics at İzmir Institute of Technology, Turkey, in 2019. During his Ph.D. he gained deep experience on theoretical concepts of solid state physics, numerical methods and computer simulations, performing density functional theory simulations to calculate electronic and optical properties of nanostructured materials. The numerical and advanced computational methods will definitely improve the quality of research in the proposed project by helping to predict and understand ultrafast material’s response and experimental data. He has published more than 20 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. First-time participant to FET under Horizon 2020.

BSc Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, he obtained the MSc Photonics diploma at the Abbe School of Photonic in the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, and he is currently a PhD candidate at ICFO under the supervision of Prof. Javier García de Abajo. During his degree and graduate studies, he acquired experience in high harmonic generation in gases, self-compression on gas filled hollow fibers, light with orbital angular momentum, and modulation instability and nonlinear dynamics in planar microcavities. Nowadays, his research expertise developed in his PhD pertains to the theoretical modelling of linear and nonlinear optical phenomena in few-atom thick crystalline metal films; bridging the realms of 2D atomically-thin materials such as graphene with 3D bulk crystals. In his third year of PhD, he has published 4 peer-review papers, and participated in international conferences with more than 15 contributions, counting posters, contributed and invited talks. Since May 2020, he is the representative of the Nanophotonic Youth Committee in the Spanish Optical Society, as well as OSA and SPIE member. In the MSc, he graduated as the best student of the year 2017 and is the second best out of 97 graduates in the last 6 semesters. Recently, he has been awarded with the 2020 – SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship for his potential contributions to the field of optics, photonics or related field.

Obtained his MSc in Fundamental Physics at the University of Minho, Portugal. During his MSc, Eduardo focused on the study of the plasmonic properties of graphene-based heterostructures, with special focus on periodic systems. During this time, Eduardo developed both analytical and semi-analytical codes to describe the optical properties of such structures. Since 2017, Eduardo is pursuing a PhD in Photonics at ICFO, Spain, where he works on the theory of polaritonics in thin materials, focusing on their effective excitation and manipulation, including interactions with electron beams. For this purpose, he uses self-developed codes, as well as COMSOL simulations and other codes developed by the hosting group. First-time participant to FET under Horizon 2020.

Prof. Kaminer is assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, joined the Technion as an Azrieli Faculty Fellow in March 2018, after a postdoc at MIT as a Rothschild Fellow, MIT-Technion Fellow, and a Marie Curie Fellow. In his PhD, Prof. Kaminer discovered new classes of accelerating beams in nonlinear optics and electromagnetism, for which he received the 2012 Israel Physical Society Prize, and the 2014 APS (American Physical Society) Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Laser Science. Prof. Kaminer was the first Israeli to ever win an APS award for his PhD thesis. He currently holds the Technion’s Jacques Lewiner Career Advancement Chair – Leaders in Science and Technology. Prof. Kaminer won multiple awards and grants recently, including the GIF Young Scientists Grant and the ERC Starting Grant. Prof. Kaminer research is focused on applications of quantum electrodynamics to address fundamental and applied problems in Optics, Photonics, Plasmonics and Electron Microscopy. His group develops experiments that combine femtosecond lasers and electron microscopes. They study light-matter interactions in nanophotonics and in 2D material platforms, with applications for novel light sources and ultrafast detectors. He is author and co-author of 79 journal publications; total citations >2900; h-index 28. First-time participant to FET under Horizon 2020.

Dr. Wang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical Engineering in Technion as a Lady Davis Fellow from June 2017. He obtained his PhD in optical materials from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2013. During his PhD, he received the President Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and National PhD Scholarship of Chinese Education Ministry. After that, he moved to Trinity College Dubin for a postdoc in the group of Prof. Werner Blau in ultrafast spectroscopy and was involved in the ISLA project under EU FP7. He received the Irish 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Fellowship. In 2017, he joined the Technion as the first postdoc in the group of Prof. Ido Kaminer. During his work at the Technion, he was involved in building of a new ultrafast transmission electron microscope. He has authored/co-authored 24 peer-reviewed papers with total citations >2100 and an h-index of 16 (Google Scholar). Dr. Kangpeng Wang is a first-time participant to FET under Horizon 2020.

Summa cum laude in his MSc in Mechanical Engineering at the Technion. In his MSc, Raphael became an expert in theory and experiments on micro resonator optics for different applications. During that time, he did electro-magnetic simulations in Comsol, advanced mechanical designs, and work with fiber optics. Since early 2018, Raphael is the lab engineer of the Technion UTEM Lab. He was involved in establishing the UTEM Lab and in all the UTEM projects since it began. Especially important for the proposed project, Raphael is an expert in the optical design of the UTEM and will lead the modifications needed to allow efficient light collection for cathodoluminescence and SLM integration in the existing UTEM at the Technion. First-time participant to FET under Horizon 2020.

Michael is a PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Technion from November 2019. He obtained his MSc (Cum Laude) in optics and BSc (Cum Laude) in optical engineering from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Technion. During his MSc, Michael studied light-matter interactions in nano-photonic devices, focusing on multispectral and random metasurfaces. His research included both theoretical aspects and experimental work, combining fundamental studies in physics and optics and the development of application-oriented technology. He received the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) scholarship during his MSc and the KLA-Tencor scholarship during his BSc. In the past year, Michael has developed a theoretical model encompassing a broad class of interactions between free-electrons and electronic potentials. He aims to utilize this theory to study various phenomena, such as plasma dynamics, terahertz radiation generation and control, charge transport in semi-conductors and more. 7 journal publications; total citations >150; h-index 4. First-time participant to FET under Horizon 2020.

Role in the project:
Maytal will coordinate and supervise the Technion’s administrative aspect of the project.

Vincenzo Grillo is the Scientific Coordinator and Principal Investigator of Q-SORT. He graduated in physics from the University of Genova (110/110 cum laude). He received his PhD in electron microscopy at the University of Parma, while performing collaborative work with Erlangen University (Germany). In 2001 he was a visiting scientist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology working on cathodoluminescence in TEM. Since 2003 he has been working at INFM (the Italian National Institute for the Physics of Matter – now part of CNR) as a Senior Fellow researcher in electron microscopy. He has developed innovative TEM-STEM methodology and published the first quantitative use of STEM with HAADF detector for chemical analysis. He is now working on vortex beams and holographic beam generation. He and his group are now among the world’s leading groups in this sector for their work on phase holograms, large vortex beams, and the theory of spin-orbit coupling with vortex. In 2015 he was a visiting researcher at the University of Oregon. In 2016 he received the Humboldt Foundation’s Bessel research award for his work on beam shaping. Dr. Grillo is co-author of more than 100 articles and 5 book chapters. The H-index of his publications is 34.

Enzo Rotunno (graduated magna cum laude in Material Science at the University of Parma in 2010 and obtained his PhD degree in material science from the same institution in 2014. Since 2014 he has a research fellow position at the Italian National Research Council. During his career he achieved high competence in the field of Transmission Electron Microscopy mastering the main electron imaging, diffraction and spectroscopic techniques, with his main research interest being the study of materials through STEM with HAADF detector and the developed of numerical algorithms for the simulation of the electron-matter interaction. He currently works in CNR-NANO Quantum e-optics group among the world’s leading groups in the field of electron vortex beams, and the theory of spin-orbit coupling with vortex. Recently he has started a theoretical activity related to the development of deep learning techniques for microscopy. Dr. Rotunno is co-author of more than 40 research paper. The H-index of his publications is 13.

Dr. Gazzadi received his PhD in Physics from the University of Modena in 1997. He is a Senior Technologist at the CNR-NANO-S3 center in Modena where he is the coordinator of the nanofabrication facility. His primary research interest are the nanofabrication with Dual Beam focused ion beam (FIB) – scanning electron microscope (SEM) systems. FIB activity includes: nanofabrication of holographic plates and samples for electron interference experiments, nanopatterning of surfaces for nanomagnetism and nanotribology studies, fabrication of nanogap electrodes, nanomachining of scanning probe tips. Regarding electron-beam nanofabrication, the main interest is about focused electron beam-induced deposition (FEBID) of nanostructures from gas precursors, and their characterization from a structural and electrical viewpoint. He has 99 publications on international journals (ISI h-index 21), 3 book chapters, 1 national patent. He is member of the scientific committee of focused electron beam-induced processing (FEBIP) international workshop.

Giovanni Bertoni obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of Milan in 2003 with a thesis on carbon nanostructured films, studied with microscopy and spectroscopy techniques. From 2003 to 2008 he was a Post-Doc researcher in renowned European centers in the field of transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy, such as the CEMES-CNRS of Toulouse (France) and EMAT of the University of Antwerp (Belgium). From 2008-2011 he was a scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova, establishing an advanced laboratory of electron microscopy, including the first image corrected transmission microscope in Italy. From 2011 he is a staff researcher at the CNR. He participated in the national (PRIN) project ‘Hierarchical photosynthetic nanostructures for energy production’ from 2013 to 2016. In 2020 he has received the Canada-Italy innovation award for the study of ion batteries in the TEM/STEM. G. Bertoni has consolidated experience in high resolution transmission microscopy (HRTEM) and scanning transmission microscopy (STEM), combined with electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS), both theoretically and experimentally and applied in particular to the study of nanostructured materials. He has published more than 100 scientific papers and 2 patents. The H-index of his publications is 39 (scholar).

Jean-Christophe Olaya is an optics engineer and holds a Master´s Degree in Optics in Photonics from the Institut d´Optique Graduate School (Palaiseau, France) and a University Degree in Biomedical Specialisation. He worked as a developer for holographic displays at SeeReal Technologies (Dresden, Germany), Light Microscopy Facility Manager at the Biotechnolgisches Zentrum der TU Dresden (Dresden, Germany), as Instrument Scientist and Fibre-lab Manager for the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysics Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany), Project Manager for the Business Unit Metrology for SwissOptic (Heerbrugg, Switzerland), and as Development engineer for hyperspectral cameras at LLA Instruments (Berlin, Germany). He is currently Coordinator for Development projects for the Business Unit Microdisplay Technologies at HOLOEYE. His fields of expertise cover the topics of the image chain, from light source to sensor and data processing. He also has an extensive experience in Project Management in industrial and public research environment.

Friedemann Gädeke studied physics specialized to nano optics at Institut für Physik, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany), in the workgroup Nano Optics. He was working with single photon sources and plasmonic structures (SPASER). In parallel, he worked as a research student at HOLOEYE Photonics mainly doing software development for the optical laboratory. Since 2016 he is employed full time by HOLOEYE Photonics and develops various kinds of software, including the customer software HOLOEYE SLM Configuration Manager and the HOLOEYE SLM Display SDK, which has bindings and examples for Python, LabVIEW, Matlab, Octave, and C/C++. He is also involved in optical characterization of the SLM devices under development. His fields of expertise cover optical engineering, software development, and software – hardware communication.

Role in the project:
Dr. Santucci will coordinate and supervise the dissemination and science communication activities as detailed in WP6.