Zambelli, Tomaso, PD Dr.

ETH Zürich
PD Dr. Tomaso Zambelli
Institut f. Biomedizinische Technik
ETZ F 83
Gloriastrasse 35
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND

Phone: +41 44 632 45 75
Fax: +41 44 632 11 93
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Born in Belluno (Italia), Italian nationality

Current Research Interests

since 09/2006 LBB – ETH Zürich (en détachement du CEMES-CNRS)

As « Group leader »

• Invention of the FluidFM, the first AFM with integrated microfluidics for full operation in liquid

• Applications of the FluidFM technology for local (electro)chemistry and single-cell biology

• Polyelectrolyte multilayers for electrochemically-responsive coatings (2006 - 2012)

• Liposomes for pore-spanning biomimetic lipid bilayers and 2D nanotubes networks (2008 - 2012)

Education

May 2011 Venia legendi for Bionanotechnology, ETH Zürich (Switzerland).

Dec. 2006 Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Centre d’Élaboration de Matériaux et d’Études Structurales, CNRS UPR8011, Toulouse (France). Defended at the Université Paul-Sabatier Toulouse.

10/93 - 12/96 Doktorarbeit, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin (Germany). Defended at the Freie Universität Berlin.

09/88 - 06/93 Laurea in Fisica, Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy).

09/83 - 06/88 Maturità Scientifica, Liceo Scientifico Statale « G. Galilei » di Belluno (Italy).

Previous Research Activities

10/99 - 08/06 CEMES-CNRS UPR8011 (Groupe NanoSciences), Toulouse
Dr. Sébastien Gauthier
As « chargé de recherches »
• Electrical and mechanical properties of single molecules adsorbed on copper surfaces eventually covered with thin NaCl layers studied by room and low temperature UHV STM;
• Determination of the resonance curves of an oscillating cantilever as function of its distance from a metallic or insulating substrate;
• Influence of the van der Waals forces in the UHV FM-AFM images of gold clusters on MoS2;
• Development of a « nanostencil » by combining static and dynamic evaporation for a complete UHV fabrication and characterization of a planar nanodevice on an insulating substrate.

10/97 - 09/99 LPLE-CNRS UPR0015, Paris Jussieu (France)
Dr. Philippe Allongue
2nd post doctoral stage: copper electrodeposition on n-Si(111) from alkaline CuCN solutions studied in-situ by STM.

01/97 - 10/97 Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin
Prof. Joost Wintterlin, Prof. Gerhard Ertl
1st post doctoral stage: elementary mechanisms of the heterogeneous catalytic reactions 2CO + O2 -> 2CO2 on Pt(111) and 3C2H2 -> C6H6 on Pd(111) studied by variable temperature UHV STM.

10/93 - 12/96 Fritz-Haber Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin
Prof. Joost Wintterlin, Prof. Gerhard Ertl
PhD stage: dissociation and diffusion phenomena of NO/Ru(0001), O2/Ag(111) and O2/Pt(111) systems studied by room and variable temperature UHV STM.

09/92 - 06/93 Laboratorio TASC-INFM, Trieste (Italy)
Prof. Fernando Tommasini, Prof. Alberto Morgante, Prof. Flavio Toigo
Diplom stage (tesi di laurea): Surface phonon dispersion curves of Cu(100) and Cu(111) by inelastic helium atom scattering.

Scholarships and Awards

24 June 1998 Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.

10/94 - 07/96 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) scholarship for doctoral degree.