dr. Marcello CORENO

GAPH - Gas Phase Photoemission Beam Line Responsible CNR-IMIP (Montelibretti) c/o TASC Laboratory S.S. 14, Km 163.5 in Area Science Park 34149 Basovizza (Trieste) - ITALY e-mail  marcello.coreno@ELETTRAdomain Tel  040 375 8420/8370 Fax  040 375 8400 Location  T1 P1 076

Education:    

• PhD in Physical Chemistry (1995)

•  Laurea cum Laude in Chemistry (1991)

Main Scientific Interests: 

Atomic and Molecular Physics; Photoionization and Photoelectron Spectroscopies; Laser Chemistry; Molecular Dynamics.

Scientific Activity:

After the PhD in Physical Chemistry at the “Laser Kinetic and Photochemistry Group” (prof. Anna Giardini, University of Rome La Sapienza and CNR, Italy ), in 1995 MC moved to Elettra ( Trieste , I) , the Italian synchrotron radiation laboratory.

After participating to the assembly and commissioning of the Gas Phase Photoemission beamline at Elettra, since 1998 MC has entered the Gas Phase beamline Research Team, that manages both scientifically and technically the beamline and takes also care of the Users, on the basis of a specific agreement within Italian Research Institutions, Sincrotrone Trieste, CNR-IMIP and INFM-TASC (now CNR-IOM). Since 2009 MC has taken the responsibility of the beamline for CNR.

Beyond the work as beamline scientist, he has dealt personally with the development of the end stations for gas phase photoemission (VG-220i electrostatic analyser), for Photon Induced Fluorescence set-up and for time resolved experiments.

Since 2005 MC has also entered the EUPhoS (Extreme Ultraviolet Photon Source) group of Sincrotrone Trieste ScpA, to develop optical diagnostics for the Laser Seeded Coherent Harmonic Generation project at Elettra (group coordinator, prof. G. de Ninno, Sincrotrone Trieste and University of Nova Gorica, SLO). Within the Eufos group he is now responsible for prototype experiments to be performed with this novel light source.

Since may 2010 MC is responsible of the Elettra Research Unit of the CITIUS Slovenian-Italian interregional project (Centro Interregionale di Tecnologie FotonIche Ultra-veloci per la Spettroscopia, Interregional Centre of Photonic Technologies for Ultrafast Spectroscopy). CITIUS is a four-year project (2010-2014) for establishing an ultrafast spectroscopy laboratory at the Nova Gorica University for photoionization and photoemission studies with VUV and Soft-X-Rays radiation produced by means of laser high harmonic generation in gases. The project involves partners from Italian and Slovenian research institutes and enterprises (among others Nova Gorica University , CNR, Sincrotrone Trieste, …) and it is coordinated by Nova Gorica University after funding by the European Fund for the Italian-Slovenian Regional Development.

MC’s research interests addresses the electronic structure of isolated species (atoms, molecole and clusters), the study of the role of electron correlation in multielectron processes and also the electronic stucture and reactivity of charged species like molecular cations and dications. Being originally a chemist, the main driving force for his experimental activity is the believe that a detailed knowledge of the electronic structure of matter is needed for a thorough description of chemical dynamics and atomic and molecular interactions that rule elementary steps of reactive processes. To this purpose MC has continuously increased the complexity of the experimental techniques. He has planned and proposed experimental studies of molecules and cluster, by means of laser and synchrotron radiation spectroscopies.  He has also proposed and taken part into the assembly of the construction of several complex experimental apparatuses for spectrometry of ions, electron and photon, also by means of coincidence techniques. And on this “hardware complexity” development line, he has entered the EUPhoS group at Elettra, in order to gain access to femtosecond time resolved techniques.  At the same time, he has also continuously increased the chemical complexity of the targets of the spectroscopy studies.  In the recent past MC has mostly focussed in the use of photoionization spectroscopies to probe  molecules of biological interest undergoing conformational and tautomeric equilibria, clusters and nanoparticles in a search for correlation of spectroscopic features with their geometric structure and reactivity and, finally to metal-organic complexes of interest for magnetism and photoactivity.

 The outcome of MC's scientific activity in the field of Atomic and Molecular Physics, synchrotron radiation research and technology has so far resulted in more than 130 papers published in international journals with high impact factor (Journal of Chemical Physics, Chemical Physics Letters, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Review Letters PCCP, ...), from proceedings and contributions presented to national and international conferences and workshops, e.g. EUCMOS, MOLEC, EIPAM, Users' Meetings of Sinchrotron Radiation facilities such as Elettra (I), Soleil (F), Max-Lab (S), and also from seminars on the activity of the Gas Phase Beamline presented at CNR institutes,and National and International Universities.

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