NFL News Archive:

November 2005: Professor Michelle Simmons (UNSW) is awarded a major grant from the Australian Research Council, on which Dr. Rosei and his team will collaborate.

July–August 2005: Fabio Variola is awarded a REES (Research Exhange for European Students) fellowship from JISTEC and Politecnico di Torino to work as a summer student in Japan in Prof. Hara’s laboratory at RIKEN (Wako, Saitama).

July 2005: Cristian-Victor Cojocaru receives a fellowship to attend the NTT-BRL school on Decoherence and Noise in Quantum Systems, to be held in Atsugi (Kanagawa), October 2005.

July 2005: Dr. Rosei gives two Invited Talks at ICMAT 2005 in Singapore.

April 2005: Jill A. Miwa receives a fellowship from the Canadian Scandinavian Foundation to pursue a summer project in Denmark in Prof. Flemming Besenbacher’s laboratory at the University of Aarhus.

April 2005: Fabio Variola receives a Government of Canada Award to pursue his PhD at INRS-EMT.

April 2005: an FQRNT equipe grant is awarded to Prof. Alain Pignolet in collaboration with Prof. Dimitrii Perepichka and Federico Rosei.

March 2005: Fabio Variola (Italy) joins the group to pursue his PhD on nanostructured biomaterials, in collaboration with Antonio Nanci.

March 2005: Stefania Miglio (Italy) joins the NFL group to work on Carbon Nanotubes for gas sensors in collaboration with Prof. My Ali El Khakani.

February 2005: Afshin Dadvand (Iran) joins the NFL to work as Research Assistant on molecular rectifiers, in collaboration with Prof. Dimitrii Perepichka.

September 2004: Dr. Rosei gives an Invited Talk at the E-MRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw (Poland).

July 2004: Dr. Rosei gives a Plenary Talk at Nanotech 2004 in Singapore.

June 2004: Dr. Rosei is promoted to Associate Professor, with tenure.

May 2004: Marie-Lise Tremblay (Canada) joins the NFL group as a Research Assistant for the summer.

May 2004: Joanna Rowell (undergraduate student at McGill) joins the NFL as a summer student to study nanostructured biomaterials, in collaboration with Antonio Nanci.

May 2004: Upgrading the variable temperature STM: The ultra high vacuum chamber at the NFL STM lab is now equipped with a LEED-Auger apparatus, mass spectrometer and molecular evaporator. More >>

April 2004: A Collaborative Health Research Project (CHRP, jointly funded by the CIHR and NSERC) is awarded to Prof. Antonio Nanci (UdeM), in collaboration with James D. Wuest (UdeM) and Federico Rosei.

March 2004: Dr. Rosei gives an Invited Talk at the APS March Meeting in Montreal.

March 2004: the CFI approves two major infrastructure funding initiatives in which Dr. Rosei is directly involved, the Laboratory for Science and Application of Plasmas (10 M$) driven by Mohamed Chaker and the Infrastructure for multidisciplinary research on electronic materials, nanoscale systems, and innovative device technologies (20 M$) driven by Richard Martel (UdeM) and Patrick Desjardins (Ecole Polytechnique). Thanks to these major awards the NFL will be equipped with a VT STM/AFM/SEM and a deposition system with a VT-STM attached.

December 2003: Dr. Rosei gives an Invited Talk at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston and three Invited Talks at ICMAT 2003 in Singapore.

September 2003: Dr. Rosei is awarded a Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials (Tier II). The Chair includes an Infrastructure Award from the CFI to purchase a Hybrid PLD/PVD deposition system.

September 2003: Zhaochun Lin (China) joins the group to pursue his MSc on semiconductor nanostructures grown on graphite HOPG.

September 2003: Dr. Rosei gives an Invited talk at ECOSS in Prague (Czech Republic).

July 2003: Daria Riabinina receives a 1 year eMPOWR Fellowship from NSERC.

July 2003: Cristian-Victor Cojocaru (Romania) joins the group to pursue his PhD on alternative techniques for ordering and patterning of nanostructured materials. He is co-supervised by Prof. Alain Pignolet.

June 2003: Jill Miwa (Canada) joins the group to pursue her PhD on supramolecular assemblies at surfaces.

July–August 2003: Fulvio Ratto is awarded a REES (Research Exhange for European Students) fellowship from JISTEC and Istituto Trentino di Cultura to work as a summer student in Japan in Prof. Yukichi Shigeta’s laboratory at Yokohama City University.

May 2003: Fulvio Ratto receives a Government of Canada Award to pursue his PhD at INRS-EMT.

April 2003: Fulvio Ratto (Italy) joins the group to pursue his PhD on Ge/Si nanostructures.

April 2003: Dr. Rosei is awarded two grants from NSERC (Discovery and Research Tools and Instruments) and one grant from the CFI (New Opportunities). These grants mark the foundation of the Nano(meter)-Femto(second) Laboratory (NFL).

November 2002: Dr. Rosei gives an Invited Talk at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston.

Fall 2002: Dr. Rosei becomes co-supervisor of Daria Riabinina (Russia), PhD student with Mohamed Chaker.

June 2002: Dr. Rosei is awarded an FQRNT grant, “Programme Strategique de professeurs-chercheurs”.

May 2002: Federico Rosei joins INRS-EMT as Assistant Professor.