Stefano Luin

  • Associate Researcher
  • stefano.luin@sns.it
  • Pisa
  • +39-050-509862
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EMPLOYMENTS:

  • From 11/2008: Tenured Assistant Professor (University Researcher) at Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Pisa, Italy:
    • University level tutoring, teaching and management:
      • Adjunct professor (as responsible of courses from 2011)
      • Member of the academic board for the PhD programs at SNS in Nanoscience (and previous similar ones: Condensed Matter Physics, Molecular Biophysics, Biophysical Sciences).
      • Member of the Academic Senate at SNS as elected researcher and research grant holder representative (2018-2020).
      • Member of the Science Class Council at SNS as elected researcher representative (2010-2012, and 2016-2018).
    • Experimental research in Physics and Biophysics.
    • Management and supervision of research laboratories.
  • 2006 - 2008 Post-doc at SNS; research program: “non-linear optical spectroscopies of nanostructures”.

EDUCATION:

  • 15/11/2005: PhD in Physics from SNS. Thesis: “Spectroscopy of emergent states in quantum Hall bilayers”; advisors: Prof. Aron Pinczuk (Bell Laboratories and Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA), Dr. Vittorio Pellegrini; 70/70 cum laude.
    • Funded scholarship (1/1/2000-31/12/2002); research grant from SNS, research program “Magneto-optics of highly correlated electron systems” (01/01/2003-12/31/2005).
  • 26/11/1999: “Diploma di Licenza” (leaving certificate) in Physics from Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), 70/70 cum laude.
    • Funded scholarship (academic years 1995/1996 to 1998/1999) obtained after a competitive selection (1st tied with 92 points out of 100 in 1995).
  • 26/10/1999: M. Sc. (“Laurea” degree) in Physics, Pisa University, Pisa, Italy. Thesis: “Many-body effects on intersubband transitions in heterostructures”; Advisors: Prof. Fabio Beltram, Dr. Vittorio Pellegrini; 110/110 cum laude.

OTHER EXPERIENCES:

  • 7/2000 - 10/2000 Visiting scientist at Thomson-CSF (now Thales-CSF), Orsay Cedex, France.
  • 2001 - 2005 various visits (total 9 months) at Bell Laboratories (NJ, USA) and Columbia University (NY, USA).

Research Interests

Stefano Luin (SL) is currently working on the broad interdisciplinary area of Biophysics “at the nanoscale”, with applications in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Medical Sciences. His interests let him supervise graduate and undergraduate students and Post-Docs in the areas of (molecular and cellular) Biology, (organic and bio-) Chemistry, and (condensed matter) Physics.

SL started his career as a condensed matter physicist; his mostly-experimental research activity focused initially on spectroscopic studies of strongly correlated electron systems confined in semiconductor nanostructures, and, more recently, of biomolecules; from the analysis of their excitations, it was possible to determine peculiar properties of the systems.

In the last years he worked mostly on development and exploitation of novel “biophysical” techniques and (nano)tools useful in Biology and Medicine; in particular, he addressed:

(i) photophysical properties of (photochromic) fluorescent proteins (also using Raman spectroscopy) and their use in biosensing and pH/ion mapping in vivo and in living cells;

(ii) application of fluorescence microscopy techniques (e.g. FRET, FRAP, deconvolution and 3D colocalization) to relevant biological issues;

(iii) single molecule spectroscopy and tracking, e.g. for the study of dynamics and interactions of single receptors on the membrane of living cells;

(iv) functionalization, spectroscopy and use of nanoparticles (metallic, organic, metallo-organic composites, rare-earth metals doped crystals), especially for theranostics, and analysis of their interaction with living cells;

(v) application of optical spectroscopies for biomolecules detection and quantification.

He set up the spectroscopy laboratory in cryo-magnetic environment at NEST (SNS), and contributed to set up and is currently the supervisor of spectroscopy and microscopy laboratories of the SNS Biophysics group at NEST.

Selected Recent Projects

Selected Publications

Istituto Nanoscienze 

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

 

PEC: protocollo.nano@pec.cnr.it

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Pisa NEST

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fax +39 050 509550

Modena S3

via Campi 213/A, I 

41125 Modena 7

phone +39 059 2055629

fax +39 059 2055651″