Name : Laura Natalia
Surname : Serkovic Loli
Address : Cuernavaca MEXICO
E-mail : lauraserkovic@gmail.com
Telephone number : 0052 777 329 1777 (ext: 38311)
Date of birth : 12/Feb/1982
Nationality : Peruvian
Research
Post-doctorate in atomic collisions and synthesis of new materials Instituto de Ciencias Físicas – UNAM Cuernavaca, México. Started on April 2014. Director: Dr. Remigio Cabrera Trujillo, Dr. Guillermo Hinojosa and Dr. Jorge Ascencio Post-doctorate in graphene synthesis and analysis Commisariat d’Energie Atomique – SPCSI/SPEC Saclay, France. March 2013 – March 2014. Director: Dr. Christian Glattli and Dr. Patrick Soukiassian Post-doctorate in surface science Centro de Física de Materiales Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. July 2012 – March 2013. Director: Dr. Lucia Vitali Post-doctorate in surface science of complex metallic alloys Institute Jean Lamour, Department 203 "Metallurgy and surfaces" Ecole des Mines de Nancy. Nancy, France. May 2010 – December 2011. Director: Dr. Julian Ledieu
Education
PhD in Physics Instituto Balseiro – Centro Atómico Bariloche. S.C. de Bariloche, Argentina. July 2005 – March 2010. Thesis: Study of organic and inorganic ultra-thin films: adsorption, thermal stability, stopping power and charge exchange Director: Dr. Esteban A. Sánchez Bachelor thesis in Physics Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Lima, Peru. April 2009. Thesis: Study of a Si(111) 7x7 surface by means of a scanning tunnelling microscope Directors: Dr. Esteban Sánchez and Dr. Roland Weingärtner Graduated in Science with a degree in Physics Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Lima, Peru. March 1999 – December 2003. First place in Physics in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. International Baccalaureate San Silvestre School. Lima, Peru. March 1988 – December 1998
Languages
Spanish – first language; English – fluent; French – fluent
Publications
Some Congress, Symposiums, Conferences
Seminar in Instituto de Ciencias Físicas - UNAM Taller de Dinámica y Estructura Atómica, Molecular y Óptica Cuernavaca, Mexico. June 2014. Oral: “Estudio de la adsorción de moléculas orgánicas de EP-PTCDI sobre superficies metálicas y semiconductoras” Poster 1: “Poder de frenado de fluoruros en protones y su efecto umbral debido al gap de energía de los aislantes” Poster 2: “Estructura dinámica mediada por redes de Al tipo grafito de la superficie de Al2Cu (001)” Seminar in Annealysis Montpellier, France. February 2014. Oral: “CVD graphene on Cu foil, transfer and lithography of hall bars and antennas for Terahertz” Seminar in Commisariat d’Energie Atomique Saclay, France. December 2013. Oral: “CVD graphene on Cu foil: synthesis and characterization” Seminar in Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials Gröningen, The Netherlands. August 2013. Oral: “Adsorption of EP-PTCDI molecules on Si(111) 7x7 and Ag(111) + Reconstruction of the Al2Cu(001) surface + Stopping power of fluorides” Seminar in Institut des NanoSciences de Paris Paris, France. Septembre 2012. Oral: “Reconstruction of the Al2Cu(001) surface led by covalent bonding” Seminar in CEA – Université Paris Sud 11 Paris, France. Septembre 2012. Oral: “Reconstruction of the Al2Cu(001) surface led by covalent bonding” Conferencia Internacional de Espectroscopía (Spectra) Lima, Peru. February 2012. Oral: “Estructura dinámica superficial y redes tipo grafito” Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (CMMP11) Manchester, England. December 2011. Poster: “Reconstruction of the (001) Al2Cu surface led by covalent bonding” Seminar in Centro d'Investigació en Nanociència i Nanotecnologia Barcelona, Spain. November 2011. Oral: “Adsorption of EP-PTCDI molecules on Si(111) 7x7 and Ag(111) + Reconstruction of the Al2Cu(001) surface” Complex Metallic Alloys and Compounds Days 2011 Liverpool, England. November 2011. Oral: “Reactivity of the Al2Cu surface” Seminar in Nano Physics Lab Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. October 2011. Oral: “Adsorption of EP-PTCDI molecules on Si(111) 7x7 and Ag(111) + Reconstruction of the Al2Cu(001) surface” European Conference on Surface Science (ECOSS-28) Wroclaw, Poland. August 2011. Oral: "Reconstruction on the Al2Cu (001) surface" 18th Interdisciplinary Surface Science Conference (ISSC-18) Warwick, England. April 2011. Oral: "Surprising reconstruction on the (001) surface of Al2Cu" Complex Metallic Alloys and Compounds Days (CMAC-Days) Dresden, Allemande. November 2010. Oral: "Structure investigation of the (001) surface of the Al2Cu crystal" Seminar in Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química Santa Fe, Argentina. October 2010. Oral: "Estudio de la estructura de la superficie (001) de Al2Cu y la adsorción de O2 sobre las superficies de Al2Cu, Al9Co2 y Al13Fe4" 10th Inter-American Congress on Electron Microscopy and 1st Congress of the Argentine Society of Microscopy Rosario, Argentina. October 2009. Poster: "STM and AFM study of the adsorption of EP-PTCDI molecules on Si(111) 7x7" IV Encuentro de Física y Química de Superficies Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas. La Plata, Argentina. October 2009. Oral: "Crecimiento y estabilidad térmica de moléculas de EP-PTCDI sobre Ag(111)" 11th European Conference on Organized Films Universität Postdam, Germany. July 2008. Poster: "Growth of EP-PTCDI films on Ag(111) studied by STM, UPS, XPS and NEXAFS" III Encuentro de Física y Química de Superficies Bahía Blanca, Argentina. November 2007. Oral: "Adsorción de EP-PTCDI en superficies de Si(111) y Ag(111)" Elementary Reactive Processes at surfaces Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain. August 2007. Poster: "Adsorption of EP-PTCDI on Si(111) and Ag(111) Surfaces" IV Latin American Symposium on Scanning Probe Microscopy. de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas. Mar del Plata, Argentina. April 2007. Poster: "Adsorption of EP-PTCDI on Si(111) and Ag(111) Surfaces" International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces Bariloche, Argentina. November 2006. Poster (1): "Energy Loss and Ion Fraction for Hydrogen Transmitted through Thin C and AlF3 Films" Poster (2): "Adsorption of EP-PTCDI on Si(111)7x7 surfaces" III Encuentro Sudamericano de Colisiones Inelásticas en la Materia Buenos Aires, Argentina. October 2006. Poster: "Pérdida de Energía y Fracción de Iones de Hidrógeno Transmitido en Láminas Delgadas de Au, C y AlF3" 16th International Workshop on Inelastic Ion-Surface Collisions Hernstein, Austria. September 2006. Poster: "Stopping Power and final charge state fractions of keV protons traversing thin C and AlF3 films"
Synchrotron experiments
Experiments in Soleil synchrotron (Surface Laboratory + AILES beamline) on the exposure of H2 and D2 on graphene on SiC(0001). February 2014. Experiments in Soleil synchrotron (Surface Laboratory + AILES beamline) on the exposure of H2 and D2 on graphene on SiC(0001). May 2013. Experiments in ESRF synchrotron (ID03 beamline) of Al13Fe4 and Al13Co4 surfaces by SIXRD. October 2011. Experiments in ELETTRA synchrotron (BEAR beamline) of EP-PTCDI molecules adsorbed on Pd(100) as a part of my PhD thesis. We did different spectroscopies such as XPS, UPS and NEXAFS. May 2009. Experiments in ELETTRA synchrotron (BEAR beamline) of EP-PTCDI molecules adsorbed on Ag(111) as a part of my PhD thesis. We did different spectroscopies such as XPS, UPS and NEXAFS. April 2008.
Internships
Internship of two weeks in the Davey Lab in Penn State University working with Prof. Renee Diehl. June 2011. Internship of two months in the Laboratoire des Collisions Atomiques et Moleculaires (LCAM) of the Université Paris-Sud 11 working with Dr. Vladimir Esaulov. Neutralisation of Li+ on Pd(100). May and June 2009. Educational trip to France: One month in a French school to improve the French language. January 1997.
Scientific Schools
Surface Chemistry School Universidad de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina. August 2008. Advanced school on synchrotron and free-electron laser sources and their multidisciplinary applications The Abdus Salam International Centre of Theoretical Physics. Trieste, Italy. April 2008. Escuela de materiales nanoestructurados: Caracterización mediante empleo de luz sincrotrón Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas. La Plata, Argentina. November 2007.
Teaching
Teaching assistant of Ion Spectroscopy course in: Escuela Balseiro en Física Atómica Molecular y Óptica. Centro Atómico Bariloche. S.C. de Bariloche, Argentina. October 2007. Maths and science teacher. Courses given in English. Markham College. Lima, Peru. 6 months from August 2004. Teaching assistant of Cosmology, General Physics 1, General Physics 2. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Lima, Peru. From August 2003 to July 2004.
Others
Presentation on 2013 to a CNRS Researcher position in Professor Ian Vickridge’s group in University Paris 6 (Jussieu) on the study of SrTiO3 by the Medium Energy Ion Scattering technique. Experimental skills: STM, STS, AFM, UPS, TOF-DRS, TOF-ISS, AES, LEED, XPS, NEXAFS, TDS, ion transmission by TOF, synchrotron radiation, adsorption techniques, UHV techniques, CVD graphene, SEM, optical, laser and e-beam lithography, metal evaporation, clean room techniques, graphene transfer. Software skills: SPIP, WSXM, Mathcad, Fortran, Mathematica, Simion, SRIM, Quantum. Article in Centro Atomico Bariloche webpage: Laura N. Serkovic Loli, J. Esteban Gayone and Esteban A. Sánchez, “Flat aromatic molecules on inorganic surfaces”, http://fisica.cab.cnea.gov.ar/Actualidades/20090828/20090828.html, (2009). Implementation and optimization of the evaporation system with a Knudsen cell in a ultra high vacuum chamber. 2007. Participant in the organizational team of the 13th International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces. November 2006. Translation from French to Spanish of the course “Dispositifs optiques à base de semi-conducteurs” and “Propriétés optiques des solides”, which were part of a cooperation program between France and Latin-America in 2004 in Lima, Peru. Automatization of the plasma laboratory in the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Electronic and automatique acquisition of the data. 2002.
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