Dr. Giulia Zanini

I am currently a postdoc in the Optics Biotech lab of Prof. Scarcelli at University of Maryland - College Park (US). I received my PhD in Physics in 2019 from University of Genoa (Italy) with a thesis on super-resolution label-free optical microscopy, performed under the supervision on Prof. Alberto Diaspro in the Nanoscopy group at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). During my PhD she spent five months as visiting researcher in Prof. Fujita’s lab in the department of Applied Physics at Osaka University, to learn Raman scattering techniques. My PhD work was published in ACS Nano (Zanini G. et al., Label-free optical nanoscopy of single layer graphene, ACS Nano, 13(8), 9673-9681, 2019) and as a book chapter in Astratov V. (Ed.) “Label-free super-resolution microscopy” book (Springer, ISBN 978-3-030-21721-1). My PhD thesis was awarded in 2019 by Società Italiana di Ottica e Fotonica (SIOF), Italian branch of the European Optical Society. Prior to this, I received my Master degree in Physics from University of Trento (Italy) with a thesis on two-photon microscopy for skin tumor diagnosis. My main expertise is in non-linear optics and in optical microscope design and development, and my main research activity is now focused on stimulated Brillouin scattering microscopy. In 2021 I was awarded with the Fischell Institute Young Investigator Fellowship by the Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices at University of Maryland - College Park (US).