Sergio Brovelli
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science
University of Milano-Bicocca
Italy
Biography
Sergio Brovelli is a Associate Professorship in Experimental Physics at the Department of Materials Science of the University of Milano Bicocca in Italy. He graduated in 2003 and earned his PhD in Materials Science (2006) at the University of Milano Bicocca thanks to a fellowship by the Tronchetti Provera Foundation. Awarded with a fellowship by the Della Riccia Foundation (2006) he moved to University College London and London Centre for Nanotechnology (UK) where he received a Marie Curie Research Fellowship that funded his research until December 2009. In 2010, he moved to the Los Alamos National Laboratory where in 2011 he was awarded with the Los Alamos Director’s Fellowship. In 2012 he moved back to Europe as Assistant Professor at the University of Milano Bicocca and in 2015 he was tenured with the Associate Professorship in Experimental Physics. His research revolves around physical processes confined at the nanoscale in relation to the composition and nanoarchitecture of organic and inorganic nanostructured materials and their impact on photonic devices (photovoltaic, lighting, sensors, biomedical).
Research Interest
Nanomaterials for applications in Optics, Photonics, Renewable energy and Biomedical technologies. Nanoscale in relation to the Composition and Nanoarchitecture of organic and inorganic Nanostructured materials
Publications
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Velizhanin K A, Makarov NS, Simonutti R, Klimov Brovelli S, Meinardi F, et al. (2015) Highly efficient large-area colourless luminescent solar concentrators using heavy-metal-free colloidal quantum dots. Nat Nanotechnol 10: 878-885.
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Santambrogio C, Torrente Y, De Angelis F, Meinardi F, Brovelli S, et al. (2016) Permanent excimer superstructures by supramolecular networking of metal quantum clusters. Science 353: 571-575.
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Brovelli S, Ehrenberg S, Dhamo L, Carulli F., Mauri M, et al. (2017) Highly efficient luminescent solar concentrators based on earth-abundant indirect-bandgap silicon quantum dots. Nat Photon.
