Roberta Poloni

Education

• 05/11/2007-present: PostDoc at the ICMAB (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona) in colaboration with Dr. Jorge Iñiguez, Dr. Alberto Garcia and Prof. Enric Canadell.
• 01/09/2004-31/11/2007: Ph.D. studentship at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) under the supervision of Prof. Alfonso San Miguel (LPMCN, University Claude Bernard-Lyon 1, Lyon) and Sakura Pascarelli (ESRF, Grenoble).
  Ph.D. thesis title: "Heavy alkali metal-intercalated fullerenes under high pressure and high temperature conditions: Rb₆C₆₀ and Cs₆C₆₀" (format: pdf). Thesis defense's seminar "click here"(format: pdf).
• 04/2004: "Laurea" (M.Sc. Degree) in Physics (University of Camerino). Graduated with a research "Laurea" thesis under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Di Cicco and Simone De Panfilis. Thesis title: "Local structure of Liquid Ga under high temperature and high pressure conditions by EXAFS spectroscopy" (format: pdf).
  Thesis defense's seminar "click here"(format: pdf).
  
• 07/1998: High school diplome, Liceo Scientifico "Galileo Galilei", Macerata.

Main Research Interests

• New methodologies based on the Virtual Crystal Approximation in order to address ordering problems in solid solutions and disordered alloys (e.g. oxynitrides, perovskites, borocarbides).
• Theoretical studies of functional oxides (e.g. Giant Magneto-Resistance compounds).
• Structural and electronic properties of alkali metal doped fullerenes (in particular Rb₆C₆₀ and Cs₆C₆₀) under high pressure and high temperature conditions by employing X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, X-ray Diffraction, Raman Spectroscopy and ab initio DFT calculations.
• Local structure of low melting point metals under high temperature and high pressure conditions and the possible occurence of different liquid (Ga, Bi, Ge) polymorphs by using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy.

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