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Giorgio Margaritondo
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MISSION
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Contributing to the implementation of the EPFL reform whose objectives are excellence in research and teaching, the elimination of artificial barriers betweeen disciplines, the valorisation of junior colleagues and women, the links between the scientific culture and the artistic, social and humanistic cultures without borders, the return of the "town" in the tissue of the European universities removing the barriers created after 1968.
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BIOGRAPHY
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Citizen of the USA, Giorgio Margaritondo was born in Rome, Italy, in 1946. He received the Laurea summa cum laude from the University of Rome in 1969.
From 1969 he was an employee of the Italian National Research Council in Rome and Frascati and, in 1975-77, he was at Bell Laboratories in the USA. From 1978 to 1990, he was professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA; in 1984 he was nominated associate director for research of the Synchrotron Radiation Center of the same university. In 1990 he was nominated "professeur ordinaire" (full professor) at the EPFL; he directed the Institute of Applied Physics and the Physics Department. He was also a honorary faculty member at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
In 2001 he became Dean of the EPFL Faculty of Basic Sciences, IN 2004 he was nominated Provost.
In addition to teaching general physics, his activity concerns the physics of semiconductors and superconductors (electronic states, surfaces and interfaces) and of biological systems; his main experimental techniques are electron spectroscopy and spectromicroscopy, x-ray imaging and scanning near-field microscopy, including experiments with synchrotron light and with free electron lasers.
Author of more than 630 scientific publications and 9 books, he was also coordinator in 1995-98 of the scientific division of the Elettra synchrotron in Trieste. In 1997-2003 he was coordinator of the European Commission Round Table on synchrotron radiation. He is the president of the Council of the European Commission Integrated Initiative on Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser Science, the largest network in the world in this domain.
He is Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Vacuum Society and Fellow and Chartered Physicist of the Institute of Physics.
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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Stable Freestanding Films of Pure Water, B. M. Weon, J. H. Je, Y. Hwu and G. Margaritondo, Appl. Phys. Letters 92, 104101 (2008).
Hard-X-ray Microscopy with Fresnel Zone Plates Reaches 40 nm Rayleigh Resolution, Y. S. Chu, J. M. Yi, F. De Carlo, Q. Shen, Wah-Keat Lee, H. J. Wu, C. L. Wang, J. Y. Wang, C. J. Liu, C. H. Wang, S. R. Wu, C. C. Chien, Appl. Phys. Letters 92, 103119 (2008)
Morphological Study of Early-Stage Lung Cancer Using Synchrotron Radiation, P. Liu, J. Q. Sun, Y. J. Guan, W. S. Yue, L. X. Xu, Y. Li, G. L. Zhang, Y. Hwu, J. H. Je and G. Margaritondo, J. Synchrotron Radiation 15, 36 (2008)
Infrared Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy Observation of Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Effects on Functional Groups in Eukaryotic Cells, A. Cricenti, R. Generosi, M. Luce, F. Ronci, P. Perfetti D. Vobornik, G. Margaritondo, J. S. Sanghera, I. D. Aggarwal, N. H. Tolk, D. W. Piston, S. Grimaldi, A. Lisi and S. Rieti , Appl. Phys. Letters 90, 033902 (2007)
E-Beam Lithography and Electrodeposition Fabrication of Thick Nanostructured Devices, T. N. Lo, Y. T. Chen, C. W. Chiu, C. J. Liu, H. J. Wu, I. K. Lin, C. I. Su, W. D. Chang, Y. Hwu, B. Y. Shew, C. C. Chiang, J. H. Je, and G. Margaritondo , J. Phys. D (2007)
Fabrication of High-aspect-ratio Fresnel Zone Plate by e-beam Lithography and Electroplating, Y. T. Chen, T. N. Lo, C. W. Chiu, J. Y. Wang, C. L. Wang, C. J. Liu, S. R. Wu, S. T. Jeng, C. C. Yang, J. Shiue, C. H. Chen, Y. Hwu, G. C. Yin, H. M. Lin, J. H. Je and G. Margaritondo, J. Synchrotron Radiation 15, 170 (2008).
Bright-Field Imaging of Lattice Distortions Using X-rays, J. M. Yi, J. H. Je, Y. S. Chu, Y. Zhong, Y. Hwu and G. Margaritondo, Appl. Phys. Letters 89, 074103 (2006) [cover page article]
Spectroscopic Infrared Near-Field Microscopy and X-Ray Reflectivity Studies of Order and Clustering in Lipid Membranes, J. Generosi, G. Margaritondo, J. S. Sanghera, I. D. Aggarwal, N. H. Tolk, D. W. Piston, A. Congiu Castellano and A. Cricenti, Appl. Phys. Letters 89, 233906 (2006)
Synchrotron Light in Medical and Materials Science Radiology, G. Margaritondo, Y. Hwu and J. H. Je, Rivista Nuovo Cimento 27, 1 (2005).
Explaining the Physics of Tsunamis to Undergraduate and Non-physics Students, G. Margaritondo , European J. Phys. 26, 401 (2005) [2005 journal highlight]
Synchrotron Microangiography with no Contrast Agent, Y. Hwu, W. L. Tsai, J. H. Je, S. K. Seol, Bora Kim, A. Groso, G. Margaritondo, Kyu-Ho Lee and Je-Kyung Seong, Phys. Med. Biol. 49,501 (2004) [2004 journal highlight]
Imaging Cells and Tissues with Refractive Index Radiology, Y. Hwu, W. L. Tsai, H. M. Chang, H. I. Yeh, P. C. Hsu, Y. C. Yang, Y. T. Su, H. L. Tsai, G. M. Chow, P. C. Ho, S. C. Li, H. O. Moser, P. Yang, S. K. Seol, C. C. Kim, J. H. Je, E. Stefanekova, A. Groso and G. Margaritondo , Biophys. J. 87, 4180 (2004)
Manifestation of the Magnetic Resonance Mode in the Nodal Quasiparticle Lifetime in Superconducting Cuprates, A. A. Kordyuk, S. V. Borisenko, A. Koitzsch, J. Fink, M. Knupfer, B. Buechner, H. Berger, G. Margaritondo, C. T. Lin, B. Keimer, S. Ono, Yoichi Ando, Phys. Rev. Letters, 2004
Chemically Resolved Imaging of Biological Cells and Thin Films by Infrared Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy (IR-SNOM), A. Cricenti, R. Generosi, M. Luce, P. Perfetti, G. Margaritondo, D. Talley, J. S. Sanghera, I. D. Aggarwal, N. H. Tolk, A. Congiu-Castellano, M. A. Rizzo, and D. W. Piston, Biophys. J., 2003
Elements of Synchrotron Light for Biology, Chemistry, and Medical Research, G. Margaritondo, Oxford University Press (book), 2002
Building on Bubbles in Metal Electrodeposition, W. L. Tsai, P. C. Hsu, Y. Hwu, C. H. Chen, L. W. Chang, J. H. Je, H. M. Lin, A. Groso and G. Margaritondo, Nature, 2002
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