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CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal informations
Marco Zanella, Ph.D.
Nanochemistry facility
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego, 30
16163 Genova (Italy)
Name and Surname
Marco Zanella
Place and Date of Birth
Thiene (Vicenza), 05/02/76
Address
5/17A, via Hector Berlioz, 16159, Genova, Italy
Telephone Number
0039 3312550195(Italy)
Social Condition
National Service
Unmarried
Driving Licence
Yes
Fiscal Code
ZNLMRC76B05L157B
e-mail
[email protected]
Done
Cultural experience
Post doctoral experiences:
September 2009-now: Senior post-doc in Dr. Liberato Manna group at the Nanochemistry Facility of Italian
Institute of Technology (IIT) Genova (Italy).
July 2008-June 2009: Visiting scholar at the chemistry department at University of California Berkeley
(UCB) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Paul
Alivisatos.
PhD in physics:
29 May 2008: PhD defence at Fachbereich Physik of Philipps-Universitaet Marburg (magna cum laude) with
the thesis “Synthesis of advanced inorganic colloidal nanoparticles”.
July 2007-May 2008: Senior PhD student in Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Parak group at Philipps University Marburg
(Germany) and responsible of the synthesis division.
October 2007- May2008: Responsible for the new electrochemistry division in Prof. Parak group.
December 2004-June 2007 PhD student in Dr. Wolfgang Parak group and CeNS (Center for NanoScience)
member at LMU Muenchen (Germany).
Topic of my PhD was the synthesis and the characterisation of nanocrystals with different materials, shape
and size.
Honors and Awards:
Center for Nanoscience (CeNS) International Doctorate Program NanoBioTechnology (IDK-NBT)
scholarship (2004-2007).
Certificate for “outstanding academic achievements” within the IDK-NBT doctorate program (2008).
One year scholarship as visiting scholar at UCB-LBNL (Berkeley, CA) (2008-2009).
Selected Pubblications:
Papers:
2006
1) Synthesis and perspectives of complex crystalline nano-structures physica status solidi (a), 2006,
203(6), 1329 Stefan Kudera, Luigi Carbone, Marco Zanella, Roberto Cingolani, Wolfgang J. Parak,
Liberato Manna.
2007
2) Sequential growth of magic-size CdSe nanocrystals Advanced Materials, 2007, 19, 548–552
Stefan Kudera°, Marco Zanella°, Cinzia Giannini, Aurora Rizzo, Yanqin Li, Giuseppe Gigli,
Roberto Cingolani, Giuseppe Ciccarella, Werner Spahl, Wolfgang J. Parak, and Liberato Manna.
° S. Kudera and M. Zanella contributed equally to this work.
3) Blue light emitting diodes based on fluorescent CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals Appl. Phys. Lett., 2007,
90, 051106 Aurora Rizzo, Yanqin Li, Stefan Kudera, Fabio Della Sala, Marco Zanella and Wolfgang
J. Parak, Roberto Cingolani, Liberato Manna, and Giuseppe Gigli.
4) Size determination of (bio-) conjugated water-soluble colloidal nanoparticles - a comparison of
different techniques Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2007, 111 (31), 11552–11559, R. A.
Sperling, T. Liedl, S. Duhr, S. Kudera, M. Zanella, C.-A. J. Lin, W. Chang, D. Braun and W. J.
Parak.
5) A Photo-Switchable Signal Chain for Superoxide Detection using a CdSe/ZnS-Quantum Dot
Modified Gold Electrode, Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, 2007.
TRANSDUCERS2007.International10-14 June 2007, 2295–2297, C. Stoll, M. Zanella, W. J. Parak,
F. Lisdat.
2008
6) Growth of colloidal hybrid nanoparticles of fluorescent group II/VI particles on top of
magnetic iron-platinum, Journal of Material Chemistry, 2008, (36), 4311-4317, Marco Zanella,
Andrea Falqui, Stefan Kudera, Liberato Manna, Maria F. Casula, Wolfgang J. Parak.
7) Biological applications of gold nanoparticles, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2008, 37, 1896-1908 Ralph A.
Sperling, Pilar Rivera Gil, Feng Zhang, Marco Zanella and Wolfgang J. Parak
8) Photoelectrochemical signal chain based on quantum dots on gold – sensitive to superoxide
radicals in solution, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2008, 24, 260-265 C. Stoll, C. Gehring, K.
Schubert, M. Zanella, W.J. Parak, F. Lisdat.
9) Design of an amphiphilic polymer for nanoparticle coating and functionalization, Small, 2008,
4(3), 334-41. Lin Cheng-An J., Sperling Ralph A, Li Jimmy K, Yang Ting-Ya, Li Pei-Yun, Zanella
Marco, Chang Walter H, Parak Wolfgang J.
2009
10) Chloroform- and water-soluble sol-gel derived Eu+++/Y2O3 (red) and Tb+++/Y2O3 (green)
nanophosphors: synthesis, characterization and surface modification, IEEE Trans
Nanobioscience, 2009 Mar;8(1):43-50, Ashutosh Pandey, M. K. Roy, Anjana Pandey, Marco
Zanella, Ralph A. Sperling, W. J. Parak and H. C. Verma.
11) Synthesis, characterization, and bioconjugation of fluorescent gold nanoclusters toward
biological labeling applications, ACS nano, 2009, 3(2), 395-401. Lin Cheng-An J, Yang Ting-Ya,
Lee Chih-Hsien, Huang Sherry H, Sperling Ralph A, Zanella Marco, Li Jimmy K, Shen Ji-Lin,
Wang Hsueh-Hsiao, Yeh Hung-I, Parak Wolfgang J, Chang Walter H.
12) Evaluation of quantum dots applied as switchable layer in a light-controlled electrochemical
sensor. Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2009, 396, 1095-103, Zhao Yue, Waqas Khalid,
Marco Zanella, Abbasi Azhar-Zahoor, Kirsten Schubert, Fred Lisdat, Wolfgang Parak.
13) Relaxation times of colloidal iron platinum in polymer matrixes, Journal of Material Chemistry,
2009, 35 (19), 6381-6386, Maria Puerto Morales, Matthieu Bedard, Alejandro G. Roca, Patricia de
la Presa, Antonio Hernando, Feng Zhang, Marco Zanella, Abbasi Azhar Zahoor, Gleb B.
Sukhorukov, Loretta del Mercato, Wolfgang J. Parak.
14) Identifying spinel phases in nearly monodisperse iron oxide colloidal nanocrystals, J. Phys.
Chem. C, 2009, 43(113), 18667-18675, A. Corrias, G. Mountjoy, D. Loche, V. Puntes, A. Falqui,
M. Zanella, W. J. Parak, M. F. Casula
2010
15) Discontinuous Growth of II-VI Semiconductor Nanocrystals from Different Materials , J. Phys.
Chem. C, 2010, 114 (14), 6205–6215, Marco Zanella, Azhar Zahoor Abbasi, Andreas Schaper,
Wolfgang J. Parak.
16) Assembly of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanorods in Solution by Depletion Attraction,
Nanoletters, 2010, 10 (2), pp 743–749, Dmitry Baranov, Angela Fiore, Marijn van Huis,
Cinzia Giannini, Andrea Falqui, Ugo Lafont, Henny Zandbergen, Marco Zanella, Roberto Cingolani
and Liberato Manna.
17) Epitaxial CdSe-Au nanocrystal heterostructures by thermal annealing, Nanoleters, 2010, 10 (8),
pp 3028–3036, Albert Figuerola, Marijn van Huis, Marco Zanella, Alessandro Genovese, Sergio
Marras, Andrea Falqui, Henry Zandbergen, Roberto Cingolani, and Liberato Manna.
2011
18) Assembly of Shape-Controlled Nanocrystals by Depletion Attraction, ChemComm, 2011, 47,
203-205, Marco Zanella, Giovanni Bertoni, Isabella R. Franchini, Rosaria Brescia, Dmitry Baranov
and Liberato Manna.
19) Novel hybrid organic/inorganic 2D quasiperiodic PC: from diffraction pattern to vertical light
extraction, Nanoscale Research Letters, 2011, 6 (1) 371-377, Petti L., Rippa M., Zhou J., Manna L.,
Zanella M. and Mormile P.
20) Self-Assembled Multilayers of Vertically Aligned Semiconductor Nanorods on Device-Scale
Areas, Advanced Materials, 2011, 23 (19) 2205 -2209, Zanella M., Gomes R., Povia M., Giannini
C., Zhang Y., Riskin A., Van Bael M., Hens Z. and Manna L.
21) Sequential Cation Exchange in Nanocrystals: Preservation of Crystal Phase and Formation of
Metastable Phases, Nano Letters, 2011, 11, 4964-4970, Li H., Zanella M., Genovese A., Povia M.,
Falqui A., Giannini C. and Manna L.
22) Steady-state photoinduced absorption of CdSe/CdS octapod shaped nanocrystals, Physical
Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011, 13 (3) 15326-15330, Antognazza M. R., Scotognella F., Miszta
K., Dorfs D., Zanella M., Zavelani-Rossi M., Manna L., Lanzani G. and Tassone F.
23) Luminescent Solar Concentrators Utilizing Aligned CdSe / CdS Nanorods, Photovoltaic
Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2011 37th IEEE, 2011, 000858-000863, DOI:
10.1109/PVSC.2011.6186087, Martyn Fisher, Marco Zanella, Daniel J Farrell, Liberato Manna,
Paul Stavrinou, Amanda J Chatten.
2012
24) Blue-UV-Emitting ZnSe(Dot)/ZnS(Rod) Core/Shell Nanocrystals Prepared from CdSe/CdS
Nanocrystals by Sequential Cation Exchange, ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (2), pp 1637–1647 Hongbo Li,
Rosaria Brescia,Roman Krahne, Giovanni Bertoni, Marcelo J. P. Alcocer, Cosimo D’Andrea,
Francesco Scotognella, Francesco Tassone, Marco Zanella, Milena De Giorgi, and Liberato Manna
25) Optical phonon modes in ordered core-shell CdSe/CdS nanorod arrays, Physical Review B,
2012, 85, 115413, Andrea Giugni, Gobind Das, Alessandro Alabastri, Remo Proietti Zaccaria,
Marco Zanella, Isabella Franchini, Enzo Di Fabrizio, and Roman Krahne
26) Bragg Extraction of Light in Active Photonic Nanogratings Patterned in CdSe/CdS NanorodsPolymer Nanocomposites L. Petti, M. Rippa, R. Capasso, P. Mormile, M. Zanella, L. Manna
(submitted)
27) Spinning nanorods – active optical manipulation of semiconductor nanorods using polarised
light, Nanoscale, 2012, 4 (12), 3693-3697, DOI: 10.1039/C2NR30515A, C.R. Head, E. Kammann,
M. Zanella, L. Manna and P.G. Lagoudakis
28) Strong reduction of exciton binding energy in CdSe/CdS nanorods, Lucas Kunneman, Marco
Zanella, Liberato Manna, Laurens Siebbeles, Juleon Schins (submitted)
Book Chapters:
“Core Shell Nanocrystals”, Stefan Kudera, Marco Zanella, Wolfgang J. Parak in ‘Comprehensive
Nanoscience and Technology’, Edited by David Andrews, Greg Scholes and Gary Wiederrecht, Elsevier,
2010.
Highlights:
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The article “Assembly of shape controlled nanocrystals by depletion attraction” by Zanella et al. was
highlighted as “hot article” by the editorial board of Chemical Communications, February 2011. See:
http://blogs.rsc.org/cc/2010/10/06/the-power-of-depletion-attraction/.
The article “Sequential cation exchange reactions in colloidal nanocrystals” by H. Li et al. was
highlighted by Nano Letters among the most important article of the November 2011 issue.
Confernces and workshops: I participated at several national and international (USA, Italy, France, India,
Germany) conferences and workshops with posters and talks.
Degree in physics: I received the degree in physics at Padova University (Italy) in June 2004.
The thesis, at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory of INFM in Lecce (Italy), was focused on the study
of the transport properties of different molecules/biomolecules (Azurin, Porphyrin, Sexithyophene and
Pentacene) to implement nanoscaled devices. My supervisors were Dr. Giuseppe Maruccio, Prof. Ross
Rinaldi and Prof. Roberto Cingolani. In that work experience, I fabricated and measured three different types
of two- and three-terminal molecular devices on Si/SiO 2 substrates or GaAs/AlGaAs mesa structures and
we succeeded in the fabrication of molecular diodes and transistors.
High school diploma: At Technical Industrial Institute “G. Chilesotti”, Thiene in 1995. Therefore I have
theoretical and practical experience of digital and analogical electronics, telecommunications and noise in
electronic devices.
Linguistic knowledge
Italian: First language.
English: Fluent.
I’m learning French and Spanish.
Computer skills
Operating System: Windows XP.
Applications: Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Origin, Adobe Acrobat, Infraview, ImageJ.
Program languages: C++, LabVIEW and Mathematica.
Characterization skills
Mask Aligner and optical lithography, Oscilloscope, Parameter and Dynamic Signal Analyzer for
characterisation of electronic devices and signals even at low temperature, Optical and Electron
Microscopes (SEM, TEM, HRTEM and SAED), EDX and ICP, powder XRD, FTIR and UV-vis
Spectrometers, Glovebox and expertise in the usage of scanning probe microscope techniques.
Experimental experiences
Nanocrystals; Synthesis and characterisation of colloidal nanoparicles of different materials, shape and size.
Clean room: Fabrication of micro- and nano-devices for micro and nano electronics.
SPM: Atomic Force Microscopy, Electric Force Microscopy, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.
UV-vis Spectroscopy: Investigation of the structural functionality of monolayers of proteins under high
electric field. UV-vis characterisations of nanopaticles of several materials.
Other professional experiences
In order to pay the University fees, I had several jobs (waiter, personal trainer, pizza-chef, teacher of physics
and mathematics and clerk in shopping centres) both in Thiene and Padova, where I went to live on my own
at the age of 20.
Interests
Synthesis, assembly, characterisation and application of nanomaterials with different functionalities.
Molecular electronics: the possibility to realize single molecule electronic devices to improve power and
speed of computers.
Theoretical physics.
Fractals and chaos theory: a very fascinating subject that enter in many natural phenomena.
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