Dr. Livia Conti, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Padua
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Dr. Livia Conti

Nominated by

  • European Research Council (ERC)
  • AcademiaNet member since 12.12.2011
  • AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria


Employed by

  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Padua


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics


Field

Physical sciences



Area of specialisation

Experimental Physics



Research interests

  • gravitational wave detectors

  • non-equilibrium properties of thermal noise

  • low noise amplifiers

  • mechanical resonators

  • interferometric sensors of dispacement



Distinctions and Awards

  • SIGRAV prize of the Italian Society of General Relativity and Gravitation (Società Italiana di Relatività Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione), 2002

  • honorable mention of the Gravity Research Foundation for work related to the proposal of the Dual detector, 2001



Interested in

  • Lectures, Membership in scientific bodies, Professorship, Refereeing
  • Attracting young people to science. Science and technology laboratories/lectures in primary schools.


Languages

English, Italian



Doctorate

  • 2000: An optical readout for the AURIGA resonant gravitational wave detector




Short CV/Education and training

  • 1990 – 1996
    Undergraduate studies in Physics at the University of Padova, Italy

  • 1994 – 1995
    ERASMUS student at the Physics Department of Imperial College, London, UK

  • 1996
    First-Class Honour (summa cum laude) graduation in Physics from the University of Padova, Italy

  • 1997 – 2000
    PhD in Physics at the University of Trento, Italy

  • 2000
    Visiting scientist at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research of the University of Tokyo (Japan)

  • 2000 – 2004
    Post-doctoral research fellow at the Physics Department of the University of Padova, Italy

  • 2004 – 2007
    Contract researcher at the Physics department of the University of Padova

  • Since 2008
    Researcher at the section of Padova of INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Selected publications

Selected projects

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