Dr. Valeria Braccini is currently a Senior Researcher at the SPIN Institute of CNR, Genoa. She received a degree in Physics in 1999 and a PhD in Physics in 2003 from the University of Genoa. In 2002, during her PhD, she joined the Applied Superconductivity Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, which was led by Prof. David Larbalestier, where she worked on the characterization of MgB2 bulk and thin films as a Research Intern and, after the completion of her PhD, as a Research Associate. Since 2003, she collaborated with the University of Genoa and the Artificial and Innovative Materials Laboratory of the National Institute for the Physics of Matter. Between 2010 and 2011, she spent one year as a Visiting Scientist at the Applied Superconductivity Center, NHMFL, Tallahassee, FL. Her research interests include superconducting materials for applications in high fields, magnesium diboride in thin films and wires/tapes form, REBCO coated conductors, Fe-based superconductors, superconducting thin films deposited through pulsed laser ablation, pinning in superconductors, and transport properties and critical current measurements on superconductors in very high magnetic fields.
Dr. Shiv J. Singh has been an Assistant Professor at the Institute of High-Pressure Physics (UNIPRESS), Warsaw, Poland, since January 2020. He completed his PhD (Physics) at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India, in 2012. Prior to joining UNIPRESS, Dr. Singh was a research staff member at the Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, from 2017 to 2019. Before that, Dr. Singh worked as a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Fellow at the University of Tokyo, Japan; a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW), Dresden, Germany; and an as Institute Fellow at the Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. Dr. Singh is interested in the growth process and physical and magnetic characterization of iron-based superconductors under ambient and high-pressure conditions. He is also interested in the fabrication of superconducting wires and tapes for magnet applications.
Dr. Paolo Mele is currently a Professor at SIT Research Laboratories, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He obtained a master's degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Chemical Sciences at Genova
University, Italy, In 2003, he moved to ISTEC-SRL in Tokyo to study melt-textured ceramic superconductors. Then, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Kyoto University (JSPS fellowship) from 2004 to 2007, at Kyushu Institute of Technology (JST fellowship) from 2007 to 2011, at Hiroshima University (as a lecturer) from 2011 to 2014, and at Muroran Institute of Technology (as an Associate Professor) from 2015 to 2018, before reaching his current position. His research interests include materials for energy and sustainable development (superconductors and thermoelectrics); fabrication and characterization of thin films of oxides, ceramics and metals; the effect of nanostructuration on physical properties; thermal transport; and vortex matter.
