Giovanna Simeoni

1st instrument scientist, responsible for the time-of-flight spectrometer TOFTOF

Can you tell us a bit about your studies and your scientific field?

Past/present scientific fields of interest:

  • disordered systems, amorphous materials, glass physics
  • nanoparticles and nanostructures
  • supercritical fluids
  • multiferroics

Experimental techniques:
inelastic light scattering (Brillouin, Raman, X-ray), inelastic neutron scattering, and high pressure cells

Instrumental skills:

  • installation of a tandem-multipass Fabry-Perot interferometer “Sandercock” (2005 -Laboratoire de Physico-Chemie des Materiaux Luminescents, Universite´ Claude Bernard, Lyon 1)
  • installation of a grating monochromator “Sopra” DMDP 2000 (2006 – Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita´ “La Sapienza”, Roma)
  • upgrade of the time-of-flight spectrometer TOFTOF (2011- FRM II)

What´s your background in neutron scattering?

Two years of Post-Doc at the time-of-flight Spectrometer TOFTOF (FRM II)

Can you describe step by step how you got to your position?

11/2003 – Laurea triennale in Fisica, University of Trento (Italy) – final marks: 110/110 cum laude
1-8/2005 – stage at Laboratoire de Physico-Chemie de materiaux luminescents, Universite´ Claude Bernard, Lyon 1 (France)
9/2005 – Laurea specialistica in Fisica Teorica, University of Trento (Italy) – final marks: 110/110 cum laude
12/2005-02/2009 – Ph-D. in Physics, University “La Sapienza”, Roma (Italy)
02/2009-02/2011 – Post-Doc at FRM II (2nd instrument scientist at TOFTOF)
02/2011 – 1st instrument scientist at TOFTOF (FRM II)

Have you got any publications?

G. G. Simeoni et al., “The Widom line as the crossover between liquid-like and gas-like behaviour in supercritical fluids”, Nat. Phys. 6, 503-507 (2010)

A. B. Boeer, A.-L. Barra, L. Chibotaru, D. Collison, E. J. L. McInnes, R. A. Mole, G. G. Simeoni, G. A. Timco, L. Ungur, T. Unruh, R. E. P. Winpenny, “A Spectroscopic Investigation of Magnetic Exchange Between Highly Anisotropic Spin Centers”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 50, 4007 (2011)

L. Peyker, C. Gold, W. Scherer, H. Michor, T. Unruh, G. G. Simeoni, A. Senyshyn, D.T. Adroja, O. Stockert, E.-W. Scheidt, “Change of the effective spin degeneracy in CeNi9-xCuxGe4 due to the interplay between Kondo and crystal field effects”, Eur. Phys. Lett. 93, 37006 (2011)

S. Etienne, L. David, E. Duval, A. Mermet, A. Wypych and G. G. Simeoni, “Physical Aging of Amorphous Matter: Down to the Nanometric Scale”, Solid State Phenomena Vol. 115 (2006) pp 99-112, Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland

E. Duval, S. Etienne, G. G. Simeoni, and A. Mermet, “Physical aging effect on the boson peak and heterogeneous nanostructure of a silicate glass”, J. Non-Cryst. Solids 352, 4525 (2006)

Contact details

Dr. Giovanna Giulia Simeoni
Time-of-Flight Spectrometer TOFTOF
TUM – FRM II
Lichtenbergstrasse 1
85747 Garching bei Muenchen

Tel: +49(0)89/289-14975 (office)
+49(0)89/289-14881 (TOFTOF)
Fax: +49(0)89/289-14989

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Giovanna Simeoni
Giovanna Simeoni

Glory moments with friends: Italian Physicists having fun after getting their Ph-D. Title. (University “La Sapienza”, Roma: Physics Department, historical building “G. Marconi”)

Giovanna Simeoni
Giovanna Simeoni

With Neil Ashcroft (in front of K. Shimizu´s poster) at the Gordon Conference on High Pressure Research (Summer 2010 – Holderness School, Holderness, NH). A fruitful discussion about the Born-Oppenheimer approximation and the importance of Neutron Science.

Giovanna Simeoni
Giovanna Simeoni

In the Treasure room: in front of more than 1000 He3 detectors, during the big upgrade of the TOFTOF.

Giovanna Simeoni
Giovanna Simeoni

In the Neutron Guide Hall of the FRM II.

Giovanna Simeoni
Giovanna Simeoni

Teaching students during a JCNS Laboratory curs on Neutron Scattering.

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