Curriculum Vitae

Riccardo Bertacco got his degree in Electronic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 1994. In november 1999 he got a permanent position (resercher) at the Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano, and in february 2000 the PhD in Physics with a thesis on "Spin polarized electron spectroscopies from magnetic thin films and surfaces". In march 2005 he has been appointed as Associated Professor of Physics at Politecnico di Milano. Since April 2018 he is Full Professor of Physicis at Politecnico di Milano. In 2001 he worked three months at the UMR137 CNRS-Thales (Paris), on Pulsed Laser Deposition of thin films and characterization by XPS in the group of A. Fert, Nobel prize for Physiscs 2007. In 2005 he spent one month as invited professor at the laboratory LMOV, CNRS-Université de Versailles (France). He gives annual courses of classical physics, an advanced course on "Magnetic nanostructures" at Politecnico di Milano and lectures in PhD schools. He participated in many schools and conferences with contributed talk and invited talks. He is author of 189 papers in international journals, 4 chapters of books, 8 granted patents. Current H index: 36 (Scopus). Referee of prestigious journals (Nature Nanotechnology, Phys. Rev.Lett., Appl. Phys Lett, Phys. Review B). Appointed as Member of the Examining Committees for Phd Thesis at Politecnico di Milano, Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona (ES), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.

Riccardo Bertacco leads the Nanomagnetim group of the Department of Physics. He has been the director of the clean-room (PoliFab) for micro and nanofabrication of POLIMI (www.polifab.polimi.it) from 2019 to 2021. He is currently member of the Board of Directors of POLIMI, of the General Council of the European Magnetism Association (EMA), and of the Spintronics Factory.

Research activities

1. Advanced materials and heterostructures for Spin Electronics
2. Magneto-electronic devices with electric writing and reading of the magnetic information
3. On-chip magnetic biosensing
4. Neuromorphic computing with ferroic devices
5. Ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors
6. Magnonics and spin-computing

Running granted research projects

1. MandMEMS - ”Magnonics meets micro-electro-mechanical systems: a new paradigm for communication technology and radio-frequency signal processing" (EU Horizon, 2022-2026). Coordinator of the POLIMI Unit, 602.000 euro.
2. FunMEMS - Integration of functional materials on MEMS within the JRP STEAM with STMicroelectronics (4 M€)
3. NFFA-DI - Italian Research Infrastructure for Nanosciences (2023-2025, 4.3 M€)

Open positions for Master Thesis

1. Integrated RF devices based on spin and acoustic waves
2. Spin computing with spin-waves
3. Lead-free piezoelectric materials
4. Ferroic devices for neuromorphic computing
5. Integration of functional materials on MEMS