Valeria Russo was born in Monza, Italy in 1970. She is Assistant Professor at the Energy Department of Politecnico di Milano since October 2016. She graduated cum laude in Nuclear Engineering in 1995 and got her PhD in Science and Technology for Nuclear Plants in 1998, both at Politecnico di Milano. From 1999 to 2002 she worked at STMicroelectronics, Italy, as a process engineer, dealing with the development of dry-etching processes for semiconductor production. Since 2002 she works at the Micro and Nanostructured Materials Lab (NanoLab) @ Politecnico di Milano. She is coauthor of more than 60 international scientific publications. She presented numerous oral contributions and posters at national and international conferences in the field of Condensed Matter Physics. Her present activity is focused on the characterization of nanostructured materials and surfaces by Raman scattering, SERS and photoluminescence spectroscopy. Specifically she works on functional metal oxides such as Al:ZnO, WO₃, TiO₂, Ta:TiO₂, on thermoelectric semiconductors (Bi₂Te₃) and on nanostructured carbon-based systems such as graphene, cluster assembled carbon films, nanotubes, sp-hybridized carbon chains.

Main role within ENSURE project: characterization of nanostructured materials and targets for laser-driven acceleration experiments.

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