People

Director

Call: +39 090 39762249; +39 090 39762203

Email: onofrio.marago@cnr.it

Onofrio M. Maragò

Director of IPCF
Research Director

IPCF CNR, Messina

Research interest

Onofrio's research interests concerned optical trapping and manipulation (a topic linked to the Nobel Prize in Physics of 2018), the characterization of micro and nanoparticles, atoms, Bose-Einstein condensates. In general he has worked on the mechanical interaction between light and matter for applications in nanosciences, atomic physics, complex systems and soft-matter. Recently he has also dealt with systems whose dynamics can be artificially "activated" with light and with the study of trapped cosmic dust. He is co-author of the textbook “Optical Tweezers: Principles and Applications”, P. H. Jones, O. M. Maragò, G. Volpe, Cambridge University Press (2015).

Keywords: Optical tweezers, Optical forces, Optics and photonics, Plasmonics, Spectroscopy, Nanostructures

Affiliations: Optica Fellow, European Physical Society (EPS), Italian Society of Physics (SIF), Italian Society of Optics and Photonics (SIOF), Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti

Administrative staff

Cecilia Bucca

Administrative collaborator

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    Elisa Ceccarelli

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                      Caterina Cristallini

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                      Chiara Ingrosso

                      Senior Researcher


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                      Cristina De Monte

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                      Franz Saija

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                      Giuseppe Lombardo

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                      Luca Fredianelli

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                      Luca Pardi

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                      Luca Sementa

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                      Lucia Ricci

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                      Luigi Nocera

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                      Maria Antonia Iatì

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                      Maria Cristina Righetti

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                      Maria Grazia Donato

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                      Marinella Striccoli

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                      Massimiliano Labardi

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                      Massimo Trotta

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                      Maurizio Lanza

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                      Nicoletta Depalo

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                      Norberto Micali

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                      Onofrio M. Maragò

                      Director of IPCF
                      Research Director

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                      Paola Fini

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                      Pietro Giuseppe Gucciardi

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                      Roberto D’Ambrosio

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                      Rosa C. Ponterio

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                      Sebastiano Trusso

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                      Valentina Villari

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                                            Sergio Nuzzo

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                                              Students and Research Fellows

                                              Andrea Cintio

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                                              Email: andrea.cintio@pi.ipcf.cnr.it

                                              Carlo Nazareno Dibenedetto

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                                              Cheherazade Trouki

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                                              David Bronte Ciriza

                                              PhD Student


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                                              Fabio Vischio

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                                              Federica Rizzi

                                              Research Fellow


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                                              Giacomo Mandriota

                                              Research Fellow


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                                              Ilaria De Pasquale

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                                              Leonardo Arrighetti

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                                              Rossella Labarile

                                              Research Fellow


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                                              Sonia Marrara

                                              PhD Student

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