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Alessia Quatela received the degree in Physics with grade 110/110 at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and obtained the Ph.D. at the same University collaborating with "Pirelli Cables and Systems SpA" and "Laboratoire de Photonique" of Angers on a joint research project for the realization and characterization of optoelectronic devices based on innovative second order nonlinear optical organic nanomaterials. Between 2006 and 2009 She spent a period in Paris as Post-Doctoral Fellow at the "École Normale Superiore"(ENS) to build-up an innovative electro-optical microscope for trans-membrane action potential measurements, and then at the "Istitut Curie" for the characterization of adhesion forces exerted by the filopodia by means of optical tweezers. In 2009, She worked as Research Fellow on a project to develop the first Italian stimulated time-resolved Raman set-up at the Department of Physics in the University of Rome "Sapienza". She is currently working in Prof. Aldo Di Carlo group on a project mainly focused on the characterization of charge transfer in DSSCs by means of ultrafast spectroscopy. She has a wide background spanning from steady state and time resolved infrared and visible detection techniques to lithography and molecular orientation techniques. Alessia Quatela is coauthor and author of 25 scientific publications in international journals and national and international conference communications. In 2006 She taught "Experimental Methods in Physics" to Doctoral students at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and in 2008 "Physics" to medical undergraduate students at "Universitè Paris Descartes" of Paris.
Publications
E. Gatto, A. Quatela, M. Caruso, R. Tagliaferro, F. Formaggio, C. Toniolo, A. Di Carlo and M. Venanzi A Novel Bio-Photovoltaic Device: the First Peptide-Based Tandem Solar Cell, Nano Letters, Submitted.
S. Romero, A. Quatela, T. Bornschlögl, S. Guadagnini, P. Bassereau and G. Tran Van Nhieu, Filopodium retraction is controlled by adhesion to its tip, J. of Cell Sci. 125, 4999–5004 (2012).
A. Quatela, A. Agresti, S. Mastroianni, S. Pescetelli, T. M. Brown, A. Reale, A. Di Carlo, Fabrication and Reliability of Dye solar Cells: A Resonance Raman Scattering study, Microelectronics Reliability 52, 2487 (2012).
M. Badioli, S. M. Kapetanaki, M. Marangoni, E. Pontecorvo, A. Quatela, G. Cerullo, T. Scopigno, Broadly tunable narrowband pump pulses for femtosecond stimulated raman spectroscopy, Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference: 2010 Laser Science to Photonic Applications, CLEO/QELS art. no. 5499650 (2010)
S. Fusco, R. Centore, P. Riccio, A. Quatela, G. Stracci, G. Archetti, H.-G. Kuball, NLO-active polymers containing traizolo-thiadiazole segments, Polymer, 49, 186 (2008)
A. Carella, F. Borbone, U. Caruso, R. Centore, A. Roviello, A. Barsella, A. Quatela, NLO behaviour of polymers containing Y-shaped chromophores, Macromol. Chem. and Phys., 208 (17), 1900 (2007)
R. Centore, P. Riccio, S. Fusco, A. Carella, A. Quatela, S. Schutzmann, F. Stella, F. De Matteis, Nonlinear optical properties od regioregular main-chain polyesters, J. of Pol. Sci. Part A: Pol. Chem., 45 (13), 2719 (2007)
A. Carella, M. Casalboni, R. Centore, S. Fusco, C. Noce, A. Quatela, A. Peluso, A. Sirigu, Different nonlinear optical performances of polymers containing benzimidazole chromophores, Opt. Mat., 30, 473 (2007)
A. Quatela, F. De Matteis, M. Casalboni, F. Stella, M. Colombo, A. Zaopo, Order relaxation of a poled azo dye in a high Tg, fully aromatic new polyimide, J. Appl. Phys., 101, 1 (2007)
A. Quatela, F. De Matteis, M. Casalboni, S. Schutzmann, M. Colombo, A. Zaopo, Studies of temporal stability of poled nonlinear optical polymer films, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6192, 61922P-1 (2006)
D. A. Udvar, P. Prosposito, F. De Matteis, A. Quatela, S. Schutzmann, M. Casalboni, S. Simon, Planar polymeric multilayer structures for electro-optical applications, Proc. SPIE Vol. 6192, 61922Y-1 (2006)
S. W. Chan, J.-M. Nunzi, A. Quatela, M. Casalboni, Retardation of orientation relaxation of azo-dye doped amorphous polymers upon All-Optical Poling, Chem. Phys. Lett., 428, 375 (2006)
G. Della Giustina, G. Brusatin, M. Guglielmi, M. Dispensa, A. M. Fiorello, M. Varasi, M. Casalboni, A. Quatela, F. De Matteis, E. Giorgetti, G. Margheri, P. Innocenzi, A. Abbotto, L. Beverina, G. A. Pagani, Electro-optics poled sol-gel materials doped with heterocycle push-pull chromophores, Mat. Scie. & Eng. C, 26, 979 (2006)
P. Prosposito, A. Quatela, H. Zhang, M. Glasbeeck, Femtosecond fluorescence studies of Auramine O in Hybrid sol-gel derived films, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 847, 69 (2005)
U. Caruso, M. Casalboni, M. Fusco, B. Panunzi, A. Quatela, A. Roviello, F. Sarcinelli, New side chain polyurethanes bearing azo and ethylenic bridged push-pull chromophores for second order NLO applications, Opt. Mater., 27, 1800-1810 (2005)
C. Della-Casa, A. Fraleoni-Morgera, M. Lanzi, P. Costa-Bizzarri, L. Paganin, F. Bertinelli, L. Schenetti, A. Mucci, M. Casalboni, F. Sarcinelli, A. Quatela, Preparation and characterization of thiophene copolymers with second order non-linear optical properties, European Polymer Journal, 41, 2360-2369 (2005)
A. Carella, R. Centore, P. Riccio, A. Sirigu, A. Quatela, C. Palazzesi, M. Casalboni, Polymethacrylate copolymers containing 4,5-dicyanoimidazole based chromophores and their nonlinear optical behavior, Macromol. Chem. Phys., 206, 1399-1404 (2005)
M. Casalboni, U. Caruso, A. De Maria, M. Fusco, B. Panunzi, A. Quatela, A. Roviello, F. Sarcinelli, A. Sirigu, New polyurethanes and polyesters for second-order nonlinear optical applications, J. of Pol. Sci. Part A-Pol. Chem., 42,3013 (2004)
A. Carella, R. Centore, A. Sirigu, A. Tuzi, A. Quatela, S. Schutzmann, M. Casalboni, Second order nonlinear optical performances of polymers containing imidazole and benzimidazole chromophores, Macromol. Chem. Phys., 205, 1948 (2004)
I. Aiello, U. Caruso, M. Ghedini, B. Panunzi, A. Quatela, A. Roviello, F. Sarcinelli, NLO active Pd(II)-based organometallic side-chain polymers with C,N or N,O-chelating chromophoric ligands, Polymer, 44, 7635 (2003)
P. Costa-Bizzarri, M. Lanzi, L. Paganin, C. Della-Casa, F. Bertinelli, M. Casalboni, F. Sarcinelli, A. Quatela, Versatile synthesis of soluble multifunctional thiophene copolymers with NLO activity, Macromol. Chem. Phys., 204, 1982 (2003)
P. Persico, R. Centore, A. Sirigu, M. Casalboni, A. Quatela, F. Sarcinelli, Synthesis and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Methacrylate Polymers Based on 2-[4-(N-methyl,N-hydroxyethylamino)phenylazo]-phenyl-6-nitrobenzoxazole Chromophores, J. Polym Science A, 41, 1841 (2003)
M. Casalboni, F. De Matteis, P. Prosposito, A. Quatela, F. Sarcinelli, Fluorescence efficiency of four infrared polymethine dyes, Chem. Phys. Lett., 373, 372 (2003)
P. Prosposito, M. Casalboni , F. De Matteis, A. Quatela, M. Glasbeek , E. van Veldhoven, H. Zhang, IR-luminescent-molecules in hybrid materials, Journal of Sol-Gel science and technology, 26, 909 (2003)
P. Prosposito, M. Casalboni , F. De Matteis, M. Glasbeek , A. Quatela, E. van Veldhoven, H. Zhang, Femtosecond dynamics of ir-molecules in hybrid materials, Journal of Luminescence, 94-95, 641 (2001)