DESY News: Double award for DESY scientist Alessandro Ricci

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2016/10/14
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Double award for DESY scientist Alessandro Ricci

DESY scientist Alessandro Ricci has been awarded the 2016 Young Researcher Award by the Italian Society of Synchrotron Radiation (SILS) in collaboration with the manufacturer of scientific instruments Bruker. Ricci, who is beamline scientist at the beamline P10 at DESY's X-ray source PETRA III was honoured for his innovative investigation of high-temperature superconductors using synchrotron radiation. With microfocused and coherent X-ray beams Ricci studied the inhomogeneity and the dynamics of charge, spin and defects nanostructures in high-temperature superconductors. The SILS/Bruker Young Researcher Award is aimed at young scientists within the first six years after obtaining a doctoral degree who have made significant contributions to synchrotron radiation methods, techniques and applications.

Ricci (left) at the awarding ceremony.
Moreover, Ricci was also awarded the Young Investigator Training Program (YTIP) by the European Colloidal and Interface Society within the topic “Micro- and Nanostructured Materials”. The YITP is financed by the Italian Banking Foundation Association (ACRI) to invite young researchers from Europe for one month to an Italian Research Center. The program is aimed at enabling young researchers with outstanding records to establish and consolidate relationships with Italian research groups. In line with his expertise in synchrotron studies, Ricci will spend his grant working at the physics department of the Sapienza University in Rome in a project in collaboration with CNR-Nanotec that investigates inhomogeneous bio-materials with synchrotron X-ray (sub)micron beam techniques. The project plans to visualize and quantify this heterogeneity in fine detail at the nanoscale by using advanced X-ray synchrotron radiation features and optical focusing devices and by applying advanced spatial statistics tools to big datasets.