Pietro Gambardella

Biography

Pietro Gambardella has been Professor of Magnetism and Interface Physics in the Materials Department, since 2013. He was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1972. Pietro Gambardella concluded his studies at the Università di Genova, Italy with a diploma in Physics (Diploma di Laurea in Fisica ) in 1996. He then transferred to Switzerland as a doctoral student and obtained his PhD in Physics from EPFL, in 2000. In the same year he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. In the following year he returned Lausanne to work as a research associate at the EPFL’s Institut de Physique des Nanostructures until 2005. From 2006 to 2012, Pietro Gambardello was a ICREA- (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats) Research Professor and Group Leader at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology, Barcelona, Spain and Associate Professor, Departament de Física, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona jointly.

Research Interest

Professor Gambardella and his team are an experimental research group investigating magnetic materials and surface systems for applications in magnetoelectronics, such as magnetic memories and sensors. They focus on the fabrication of new materials (functional metal-organic and metal-oxide thin films, nanoparticles, nanostructures) and their characterization using advanced techniques such as synchrotron radiation spectroscopy, scanning probe microscopy, and electrical transport measurements.