People

At USC

• Angel-Emilio Villegas, undergraduate student. Now Masters student at Central Michigan University.
• William Jackson, undergraduate student. Now PhD student at the University of Minnesota.
• Ilaria Siloi, postdoc. Now assistant professor at the University of Padova, Italy.
• Angana Ray, postdoc. Now postdoc at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland.
• Mitchell Bias, undrgraduate student.
• Carlos Alas, rotating PhD student.
• Hoa Trinh, temporary PhD student.

The following is a list of people that Dr. Di Felice trained in her group at CNR-NANO-S3 in Modena, Italy (reverse chronological order).

• Wenming Sun (postdoc at CNR-NANO-S3 Modena, from November 2011 to December 2014). Now research associate at the State Key Laboratory of Green Building Materials, Beijing, China.
• Marta Rosa (PhD student in Physics & Nanoscience, University of Modena – 2011-2013; pre-doc student October-December 2010). Now postdoc at the University of Padova, Italy (with Stefano Corni), after a first postdoc at SISSA, Trieste, Italy (with Stefano Baroni).
• Marcelo Alves dos Santos (postdoc at INFM-S3 Modena, March 2008 to February 2010). Now left research, after a posdoc at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
• Tahereh Ghane (PhD student in Nanoscience, University of Modena – 2009-2011; pre-doc student for 1 year in 2008). Now postdoc at TU Berlin, Germany (with Petra Imhof), after a first postdoc at TU Dresden, Germany (with Giovanni Cuniberti).
• Giorgia Brancolini (postdoc at INFM-S3 Modena, October 2007 to August 2010). Now non-permanent research staff member at CNR-NANO-S3, Modena, Italy.
• Rosangela de Paiva (postdoc at INFM-S3 Modena, April 2007 to January 2010). Now assistant professor at the Federal University of São João del Rei, Brazil.
• Daniele Varsano (postdoc at INFM-S3 Modena, April 2006 to March 2010). Now tenured researcher at CNR-NANO-S3 Modena, Italy, after a fixed-term faculty position at the University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy.
• Arrigo Calzolari (postdoc at INFM-S3 Modena, March 2003 to December 2006; PhD student in Physics, University of Modena – 2000-2002; MsC in Physics, 1998-1999). Now tenured researcher at CNR-NANO-S3, Modena, Italy.
• Manuela Cavallari (postdoc at INFM-S3 Modena, 2005). Now employed at a private company in Modena, Italy, after few years at a technology transfer business in the same city.
• Agostino Migliore (PhD student in Physics, University of Modena – 2003-2006). Now research assistant professor at Duke University, USA, after other postdocs at Duke, el Aviv University, Israel, and UPENN, USA.
• Stefano Corni (postdoc at INFM-S3 Modena, January 2003 to December 2004). Now Full Professor at University of Padova, Italy, after tenure-track and tenured research appointments at CNR-NANO-S3, Modena, Italy.
• Andrea Ferretti (PhD student in Physics, University of Modena – 2002-2004). Now tenured researcher at CNR-NANO-S3 Modena, Italy.
• Maria Clelia Righi (PhD student in Physics, University of Modena – 2002-2004). Now tenure track researcher at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, after several years of fixed-term appointments.
• HouYu Zhang (postdoc at INFM-S3 Modena, November 2002 to December 2004). Now faculty at State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, Jilin University, China.
• Francesca De Rienzo (postdoc at INFM Modena, 2001-2002). Now lab technician at Dept. Chemistry, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
• Carlo Antonio Pignedoli (postdoc at INFM Modena 2000/2002; PhD student in Physics, University of Modena – 1998-2000). Now member of the permanent research staff at EMPA Zürich, Switzerland.
• Giovanni Borghi (MSc thesis, University of Modena, 2000).