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Valentina Bisogni

SIX Lead Beamline Scientist, Soft X-ray Scattering & Spectroscopy Program, National Synchrotron Light Source II

Valentina Bisogni

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 741, Room 1L111
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3163
bisogni@bnl.gov

Valentina Bisogni is the Lead Beamline Scientist for the Soft Inelastic X-ray Scattering (SIX) beamline. She joined the National Light Source II in 2014 as SIX beamline scientist, and became the lead scientist of the same beamline in 2018.

Valentina is an expert of Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS). She is interested in pushing the RIXS instrumentation towards high-energy resolution, and in expanding the applications of RIXS beyond the study of ground state properties of materials. Her current research focuses mostly on functional quantum materials, investigating how the electronic degrees of freedom evolve as a function of external parameters, e.g. temperature, electric-field, current, strain. She is a co-PI of the Dynamics and Control Field Work Proposal, which focuses on resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) of quantum materials. Additionally, she is a co-PI of the Programmable Quantum Materials (Pro-QM) Energy Frontier Research Center.

Expertise | Education | Appointments | Awards


Expertise

Valentina complements her expertise in RIXS with various spectroscopic and scattering techniques, like X-ray Absorption (XAS), Photoemission (XPS), Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering (REXS) and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS), and she performed experiments at various facilities world-wide. Furthermore, she is expert in fabricating micro-sized devices for ultra-high vacuum applications using the resources available at Center of Functional Nanomaterials at BNL.
 

Education

  • PhD in Physics jointly between the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France and Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Research topic: Study of magnons and crystal field excitations in superconducting cuprates with Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS).
  • Master Degree in Physics Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
  • Bachelor Degree in Physics Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Professional Appointments

  • Beamline Scientist at NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory (2014-present). Recipient of DOE Early Career Award in 2018. Since 2019, Lead Scientist of the 2-ID SIX Beamline. Research topic: Investigating spin dynamics in model devices with high-resolution RIXS to gain control over spin-wave manipulation and switching.
  • Post-Doc at Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland (2013-2014). Research topic:  Investigation of the ground state properties in 113-nickelates thin films and strain dependent phase diagram using RIXS and REXS.
  • Post-Doc at the IFW Leibniz Institute Dresden, Germany (2010-2012). Research topic: Study of collective spin-charge excitations in 1D cuprates with RIXS and EELS.

Awards & Recognition

DOE Early Career Research Program Awardee (2018 — 2023). Project Title “Revealing collective spin dynamics under device-operating conditions to enhance tomorrow’s electronics.”

Science and Technology Award (2023), Brookhaven National Laboratory .

Valentina Bisogni

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 741, Room 1L111
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3163
bisogni@bnl.gov

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