Former Students

Matteo Casadei

Matteo Casadei

post-doc (Assegnista di Ricerca) former PhD student

Project: Novel (ferro)magnetic materials for automotive applications

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna (UNIBO)

In collaboration with the CNR-IMEM (Parma, Italy) and Minarelli-Fantic Motors company

(formerly PhD student at UNIBO)

Ginevra Corsale

Ginevra Corsale

Master Degree student (2025)

Thesis Project: combined experimental and DFT investigation of novel quantum phases in 2D Kagomè superconductors

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna 

Co-Supervisors: Giuseppe Allodi (UNIPR), Pietro Bonfà (UNIMORE)

Riccardo Licata

Riccardo Licata

Bachelor Degree student (2025)

Bachelor Thesis Project: Novel multi-weight molecular spintronic synaptic devices

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna 

co-supervisor: Alberto Riminucci

Giovanni Maria Brandi

Bachelor Degree student (2025)

Thesis Project: effect of heavy hole doping in novel superconducting CsV3Sb5 kagome metals

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna  Co-supervisor: Ginevra Corsale

Christine Suy

Christine Suy

Internship student from Sorbonne-Paris University (2025)

Project: Ferromagnetic Nuclear Resonance applied to novel ferromagnets

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna 

Emilie Ben-Natan

Emilie Ben-Natan

Internship student from Sorbonne-Paris University (2024)

Project: Study of doped Fe2P ferromagnets by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna 

Andrea Fraternali

Bachelor Degree student (2024)

Thesis Project: Simulation of muon spectroscopy quantum observables of Kagomè 2D superconductors

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna  Co-supervisors: Pietro Bonfà

Muhammad Maikudi Isah

Muhammad Maikudi Isah

Post-doc (Assegnista di Ricerca)

Project: muSR and NMR studies of quantum materials

Jonathan Frassineti

Jonathan Frassineti

PhD student (2020-2023)

Thesis project: study of charge, spin and structural ordering in magnetic and superconducting topological Kagomè materials

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna (UNIBO)

Co-supervisors: Vesna Mitrovic and Kemp Plumb (Brown University, Providence-RI)

Corrado Del Conte

Corrado Del Conte

Master Degree Student (2023)

Thesis Project: organic spintronics and spinterface in heterostructured cobalt/organic thin films.

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna

co-supervisor: Ilaria Bergenti

Sahil Parvez

Sahil Parvez

Master Degree Student (2023)

Thesis Project: Experimental investigation of the charce density wave phase in 2D Kagomè superconductors

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna

Co-supervisor: Giuseppe Allodi (UNIPR) Jonathan Frassineti (UNIBO)

Mostafà Alsayed

Mostafà Alsayed

Master Degree student (2023)

Thesis Project: Ferromagnetic Nuclear Resonance characterization of novel magnetic materials for automotive applications

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna (UNIBO)

Co-Supervisor: Giuseppe Allodi (UNIPR), Matteo Casadei (UNIBO)

Lorenzo Tincani

Bachelor Degree student (2023)

Thesis Project: Novel (ferro)magnetic materials for motors

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna  Co-supervisor: Matteo Casadei

Iacov Salvi

Bachelor Degree student (2023)

Thesis Project: Simulation of muon spectroscopy quantum observables

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna  Co-supervisors: Pietro Bonfà

Mattia Benini

Mattia Benini

PhD student

External Supervisor: Ilaria Bergenti (CNR)

Internal Co-supervisor: Samuele Sanna (UNIBO)

Greis Cipi

Greis Cipi

Bachelor Degree student (October 2021)

Bachelor thesis title: Analysis of the electric quadrupolar term to NMR spectrum of V3Si

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna (UNIBO)

Co-supervisor: Jonathan Frassineti (UNIBO)

After bachelor: Master student in Physics at the University of Bologna

Anna Tassetti

Anna Tassetti

Master Degree student (March 2021)

Thesis title: NMR Investigation of Spin and Charge Dynamics in the Electron Doped Dirac-Mott Insulator Ba2Na1−xCaxOsO6 Double Perovskite

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna (UNIBO)

Co-supervisor: Vesna Mitrovic (Brown University, Providence-RI, USA)

After Master degrees: PhD Student, University of Trento (Italy)

Giovanni Rovinelli

Giovanni Rovinelli

Master Degree student (March 2021)

Thesis title: Magnetic, morphological and structural properties of polycrystalline ultrathin cobalt films for organic spintronics

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna (UNIBO)

Co-supervisor: Ilaria Bergenti (CNR)

Davide Candoli

Davide Candoli

Master Degree student (December 2020)

Thesis Title: Simulation of NMR/NQR observables and spin control for applications in quantum science

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna (UNIBO)

Co-supervisor: Vesna Mitrovic (Brown University, Providence-RI)

Click here to visit the page with the Program for the simULation of nuclear Spin Ensemble Evolution (PULSEE), an open-source software for the simulation of typical nuclear quadrupole/magnetic resonance experiments on a solid-state sample.

After graduation: PhD Student at Institut für Theoretische Physik, Innsbruck (AU)

 

Paola Forino

Master Degree student (March 2020)

Thesis Title: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the Electron Doped Dirac-Mott Insulator Double Perovskite Ba2Na1−xCaxOsO6  Co-supervisor: Vesna Mitrovic (Brown University, Providence, RI)

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna (UNIBO)

Co-supervisor: Vesna Mitrovic (Brown University, Providence, RI)

After graduation: PhD student at the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Michele Ghini

Master Degree student (October 2018)

Thesis title: Tuning the electronic structure of FeSe superconductor with applied strain 

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna (UNIBO)

Co-supervisor: Amalia Coldea (Oxford University - UK)

After graduation: PhD student at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT - Genova)

 

Tommaso Giammaria

Master Degree student (December 2018)

Thesis Title: Realization of a four-probe electrical resistivity apparatus and its noise reduced data acquisition interface to characterize superconducting materials 

Supervisor: Samuele Sanna (UNIBO)

After graduation: PhD student at the University of Ferrara, Italy