 Alessandra Lanzara
LBNL Faculty Scientist
Professor of Physics, Univ. of California, Berkeley
alanzara@lbl.gov
phone: 510-486-5303
Education
B.A. Physics, Universita’di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Ph.D Physics, Universita’di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University
Major Awards
2007 David Shirley Award, for “their groundbreaking work
measuring the electronic structure of graphene and the use of
high resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)
to understand the unusual transport properties of graphene associated
with Dirac fermions”
2004 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
2003 W. McMillan Award for “The discovery of a universal
energy scale in p-type cuprate superconductors”
2003 Career Award, National Science Foundation
General Research Interests
My main research interests lie in the area of experimental condensed
matter physics. The primary goal is to understand the underlying
physics of novel materials and nanostructures and how complexity
gives rise to unusual and extreme properties.
Specific research topics include: science and technology of carbon
nanostructures such as graphene and nanodiamond, and the science
of correlated materials as high temperature superconductors and
colossal magneto-resistance manganites. We utilize novel state
of the art experimental tools to uncover the electronic properties
of materials with energy, momentum, spatial, spin and time resolution
(angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), nano-ARPES,
Spin-ARPES and laser ARPES).
We are also developing novel way to synthesize two dimensional
graphene and functionalized graphene for electronic and energy
related applications.
 MSD Research Projects:
Quantum Materials
Personal website: http://physics.berkeley.edu/research/lanzara/
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Typical setup of a photoemission experiment on graphene. The
conical dispersion of Dirac fermions is directly measured from
the data.
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