Staff Profile

I have always been committed to design functional materials for energy applications, primarily photovoltaic, water splitting and battery applications.

Since the begging of my education, I realised that this is complex problem which requires cross-disciplinary knowledge. Thus, I endeavoured in an unconventional training experience, building a track record at the interface between inorganic chemistry and condensed matter physics, but also incorporating aspects of device physics and understanding of the theoretical framework for materials discovery. To address these research challenges, I worked across disciplines and working environment, from chemistry at the University of Sassari, to physics at Trinity College Dublin to engineer at Bell Labs-Nokia, and finally to National Laboratories, firstly the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as Postdoctoral Researcher Physics and later at the prestigious Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where I held a staff position as Chemist Project Scientist.

In 2021 I joined the University of Newcastle to continue on the development of energy materials and devices, and to grow the field of in-operando X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy for photovoltaic and battery applications.