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Ilaria Zardo received her diploma in Physics from Università degli Studi di Roma 'Sapienza' in 2007. In 2010, she earned her Ph.D. in Physics from Technische Universität München and Università di Roma 'Sapienza', graduating summa cum laude. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the 'Best Ph.D. Defence' at Università di Roma 'Sapienza'. From 2010 to 2011, she was a postdoc in the group of Gerhard Abstreiter at Technische Universität München, followed by a position in Erik Bakkers' group at Technical University of Eindhoven from 2012 to 2015. In 2014, she successfully applied for the project 'NEW: Nanostructures Energetic Wisdom' under the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni, a prestigious talent scheme by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) aimed at fostering talented researchers. Zardo received the Hertha-Sponer Prize in 2015, awarded to female scientists for outstanding scientific work in the field of physics. She was appointed as tenure track assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Basel in 2015 and became a tenured Associate Professor in 2020. Her research group focuses on investigating fundamental processes in tailored nanostructures, specifically aimed at manipulating lattice dynamics and phonon transport at the nanoscale. This includes developing thermal conductivity measurement techniques and investigating phonon lifetimes and coherence correlations through ultrafast time-resolved Raman scattering experiments.
University of Basel • Basel, Switzerland
Associate Professor in the Department of Physics focusing on research in nanostructures and phonon dynamics.
University of Basel • Basel, Switzerland
Tenure track assistant professor in the Department of Physics.
The University of Basel generally requires C1 level proficiency in the language of instruction. For most English-taught Masters, TOEFL (min 92-95) or IELTS (min 7.0) is the standard.