Group Leaders
Stefano Bonetti
Education: Engineering Physics B.Sc. from Politecnico di Milano in 2004 and M.Sc. from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2006. Ph.D. in Materials Physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2011. Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Physics at Stanford University 2012 - 2014.
Career: From 2014 to 2024 faculty at the Department of Physics at Stockholm University (tenured 2017). Since 2018 Associate Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Full Professor since 2022.
Riccardo Piccoli
Education: Electronics Engineering B.Sc. (2009) and M. Sc. (2011) from University of Pavia (Italy). Ph.D. in laser technology from University of Pavia in 2014. Postdoctoral Fellow at INRS-EMT Research Center (Canada) 2015 - 2020. Senior Researcher and Lecturer at Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) 2020 - 2022. Researcher at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), 2022-2023.
Career: From January 2024 Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Riccardo Arpaia
Education: B.Sc. in Physics (2007) and M.Sc. in Physics (2009) from the University of Naples Federico II. Ph.D. in Microtechnology and Nanoscience from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, in 2016. Postdoctoral Fellow at Politecnico di Milano and Guest Researcher at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble from 2017 to 2020.
Career: From 2020 to 2024 Permanent Researcher at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience at Chalmers University of Technology. Since 2024 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTD-B) at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Postdoctoral researchers
Arundhati Adhikari
Education: B.Sc. (2014) and M.Sc. (2016) in Physics from the Vidyasagar University (India). Ph.D. (2023) in Physics from the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, University of Calcutta (India). Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2025) at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER, India).
Since 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
PhD students
Davide Spallarossa
Education: B.Sc. in Engineering Physics (2023) from Politecnico di Milano and M.Sc. in Engineering Physics (2025) from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Since 2025, Ph.D. student in the Engineering Physics and Materials doctoral program at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice .
Sayyam Ahsan
Education: M.Sc. degree (2023) and research scholar (2024-2025) at University of Gujrat (Pakistan). Since 2025, Ph.D. student at the department of Molecular Science and Nanosystems at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
Master thesis students
Leonardo Cortiana
Education: B.Sc. in Engineering Physics (2023) from Ca' Foscari University of Venice. M.Sc. student in Engineering Physics at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Since July 2025, working in the QML group on the M. Sc. thesis project focused on the study of charge and magnetic excitations in Zn-doped YBCO superconductors by resonant X-ray scattering
Bachelor thesis students
Rocco Autelitano
Education: B.Sc. student in the Engineering Physics at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, since 2022. Joined the QML group for the thesis project in October 2025.