Prof. Tomaso Zambelli, CV and research interests

Born in Belluno (Veneto, Italia), Italian nationality

Current Research Interests

since 09/2006 LBB – ETH Zürich (Switzerland, mise en disponibilité du CEMES-CNRS)

As responsible of the FluidFM team:

• FluidFM for single-cell biophysics

• 2013 - 2022: Molecular 2D patterning as well as electrochemical metal 3D printing at the sub-micron scale with the FluidFM
• 2012 - 2019: Microfabrication of self-sensing microchanneled SU-8 cantilevers
• 2006 - 2015: Invention of the FluidFM, the first AFM with integrated microfluidics directly connected to an external pressure controller for full operation in liquid
• 2006 - 2012: Polyelectrolyte multilayers for electrochemically responsive coatings
• 2006 - 2012: Liposomes for pore-spanning biomimetic lipid bilayers and 2D nanotube networks

Education

Dec 2018 Titularprofessor, ETH Zürich.

May 2011 Venia legendi for Bionanotechnology, ETH Zürich.

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 (France)
Dr. Sébastien Gauthier
As « Chargé de Recherche »:
• 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 on the UHV FM-AFM images
• 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 (Germany)
Prof. Joost Wintterlin, external pageProf. 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 (Germany)
Prof. Joost Wintterlin, external pageProf. Gerhard Ertl
PhD stage: dissociation and diffusion phenomena of the 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
MSc stage (tesi di laurea): surface phonon dispersion curves of Cu(100) and Cu(111) measured 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.