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Cinzia Casiraghi is a Professor of Nanoscience in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester and National Graphene Institute in the UK.

Education

Casiraghi's undergraduate studies took place at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, where she obtained a BSc and an MSc in Nuclear Engineering. She completed her PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Cambridge in 2006.

Research and career

After her PhD, she completed postdoctoral positions both at Cambridge and at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. In 2008 Casiraghi was awarded the Sofja Kovalevskaya Award, a €1.65 million grant awarded to the highest quality junior researchers from outside Germany, for work concerning formation of graphene and carbon nanotubes. She moved to the University of Manchester in 2010, and was appointed Professor in Nanoscience in 2016, the same year that she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. She uses Raman spectroscopy to study two-dimensional materials; which include graphene and chalcogenides. She has focussed on ink-jet printed two-dimensional materials as well as nanotubes for sensors, photodetectors and solar cells.

Casiraghi was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant to study the Nucleation of Organic Crystals on 2D Templates. She has also demonstrated diamond-like carbon can be to increase storage density of data storage.

Outside of academia, Casiraghi has contributed to popular science segments for BBC Radio 4 and The Guardian.

Honours and awards

Her awards and honours include:

• Philip Leverhulme Prize, 2016
• Eli and Harari £50K Graphene Enterprise Award, 2015

References

1. ^ Cinzia Casiraghi publications indexed by Google Scholar
2. Ferrari, A. C.; Meyer, J. C.; Scardaci, V.; Casiraghi, C.; Lazzeri, M.; Mauri, F.; Piscanec, S.; Jiang, D.; Novoselov, K. S.; Roth, S.; Geim, A. K. (2006). "Raman Spectrum of Graphene and Graphene Layers". Physical Review Letters. 97 (18): 187401. arXiv:cond-mat/0606284. Bibcode:2006PhRvL..97r7401F. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.187401. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 17155573. S2CID 119094452.
3. ^ "Prof Cinzia Casiraghi". research.manchester.ac.uk. University of Manchester. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
4. Britnell, L.; Ribeiro, R. M.; Eckmann, A.; Jalil, R.; Belle, B. D.; Mishchenko, A.; Kim, Y.- J.; Gorbachev, R. V.; Georgiou, T.; Morozov, S. V.; Grigorenko, A. N.; Geim, A. K.; Casiraghi, C.; Neto, A. H. C.; Novoselov, K. S. (2013). "Strong Light-Matter Interactions in Heterostructures of Atomically Thin Films". Science. 340 (6138): 1311–1314. Bibcode:2013Sci...340.1311B. doi:10.1126/science.1235547. hdl:1822/24485. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 23641062. S2CID 26719792.
5. Casiraghi, Cinzia (2006). Surface properties and Raman spectroscopy of diamond-like carbon. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 890156510. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.613712.
6. "Spotlight: Cinzia Casiraghi | Graphene News | Graphene Flagship". graphene-flagship.eu. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
7. "Beating the Odds". Science | AAAS. 2008-12-05. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
8. "Award Winners 2008". Retrieved 2018-07-25.
9. "Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners 2016" (PDF). Leverhulme.ac.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 July 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
10. "Graphene". Casiraghi Group@Manchester: Nanoscience and Spectroscopy Lab. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
11. "Prof Cinzia Casiraghi - Research interests | The University of Manchester". research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
12. "Nanotubes". Casiraghi Group@Manchester: Nanoscience and Spectroscopy Lab. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
13. "Inkjet-printed graphene devices go non-toxic". Chemistry World. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
14. "Inkjet-printed graphene-based strain sensor shows promise | Graphene-Info". graphene-info.com. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
15. "NOC2D (ERC)". Casiraghi Group@Manchester: Nanoscience and Spectroscopy Lab. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
16. "Diamond-like Carbon". Casiraghi Group@Manchester: Nanoscience and Spectroscopy Lab. Retrieved 2019-10-17.
17. Davis, Presented by Nicola; Slaney, produced by Rowan; Jones, Gabriela (2017-05-21). "Is graphene really worth the hype – science weekly". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
18. "In their element - Carbon | Research Explorer | The University of Manchester". research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
19. "Prof Cinzia Casiraghi - Prizes | The University of Manchester". research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-07.

External links

• Cinzia Casiraghi publications indexed by Google Scholar

• Living people
• Italian nanotechnologists
• 21st-century Italian physicists
• Philip Leverhulme Prize winners
• Polytechnic University of Milan alumni
• Alumni of the University of Cambridge
• Academics of the University of Manchester