Dr. Roberto Lo Conte

Roberto earned a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) under the supervision of Prof. Marco Finazzi and a M.Sc. degree in Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) of Stockholm (Sweden) under the supervision of Prof. Vladislav Korenivski. Subsequently, he earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Mathias Kläui. After obtaining his doctoral degree, Roberto moved to the U.S.A. to join the group of Prof. Jeffrey Bokor in the EECS Department of the University of California, Berkeley as a post-doctoral researcher. Currently, he is a Marie Curie fellow (as the recipient of a 2016 Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship – Global Fellowship) at the Physics Department of the University of Hamburg (Germany), under the supervision of Prof. Roland Wiesendanger. He spent two years between January 2018 and December 2019 working on the Marie Curie project at the SPLEEM Lab of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) under the supervision of Dr. Andreas Schmid. Since January 2020, Roberto joined Prof. Wiesendanger’s team in Hamburg to work on the second phase of his project, which will focus on the investigation of epitaxial magnetic thin films via spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy.