Matteo Mitrano selected for 2019 LCLS Young Investigator Award
9/27/2019 12:38:06 PM Siv Schwink for Illinois Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign physics postdoctoral researcher Matteo Mitrano has received the 2019 Young Investigator Award of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University for his pioneering new techniques to probe high-temperature superconductivity.
The early-career award was presented to Mitrano on September 26 at the 2019 SSRL/LCLS Users’ Meeting in Menlo Park, CA. The awardee is selected by the LCLS Users Executive Committee based on nominations from across the user community.
Mitrano, who has been a member of Illinois Physics Professor Peter Abbamonte’s research group since March 2016, has developed new and innovative techniques in ultrafast X-ray scattering.
Written by Siv Schwink for Illinois Physics
Illinois Physics Postdoctoral Researcher Matteo MitranoUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign physics postdoctoral researcher Matteo Mitrano has received the 2019 Young Investigator Award of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University for his pioneering new techniques to probe high-temperature superconductivity.
The early-career award was presented to Mitrano on September 26 at the 2019 SSRL/LCLS Users’ Meeting in Menlo Park, CA. The awardee is selected by the LCLS Users Executive Committee based on nominations from across the user community.
Mitrano, who has been a member of Illinois Physics Professor Peter Abbamonte’s research group since March 2016, has developed new and innovative techniques in ultrafast X-ray scattering, which he applied in experiments performed at the LCLS X-ray free-electron laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
By using advanced scattering and time-resolved spectroscopy techniques, Mitrano and colleagues have demonstrated how ultrafast laser pulses can control electronic properties, leading to novel functionalities far from equilibrium; and in this way can interrogate ground state properties in new ways. This work led to the observation of light-induced, high-temperature superconductivity in K3C60 following the excitation of intramolecular vibrations (Nature, 2016) and of low-energy diffusive dynamics in charge-ordered cuprates (Science Advances, 2019).
Matteo Mitrano (right) and the Abbamonte team at SLACMitrano received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics, cum laude, at the Sapienza University of Rome in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He obtained his doctoral degree. summa cum laude (“mit Auszeichnung”) from the University of Hamburg in 2015, having performed doctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter.
Mitrano is a recipient of the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2017-2019). In 2019, he became affiliated with Harvard University, where he will become assistant professor of physics in June 2020.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is funded by the US Department of Energy.