Mauro Fanciulli successfully defends PhD thesis

© H. Dil / 2018 EPFL

© H. Dil / 2018 EPFL

We congratulate Mauro Fanciulli with writing and defending a great thesis titled "Spin polarization and attosecond time delay in photoemission from solids".

In the four years of his PhD work Mauro has developed a novel model to extract information on the time scale of the photoemission process from the measured spin polarization without any explicit time resolution. He performed experiments on different systems and found time scales ranging from about 10 to 100 attoseconds. Mauro will now continue these fundamental studies at the Attolab in Paris where he can combine spin and time resolution. We wish Dr. Fanciulli all the best for his future and congratulate him with these nice results.

The private exam took place at the end of March in front of an international jury with experts on spin and time. The public defence was at the end of April followed by a wonderful Italian apero.