Maria Losurdo's Biography

Maria Losurdo, Director of Research, CNR-NANOTEC

Maria Losurdo is a Senior Scientist at CNR-NANOTEC, Istituto di Nanotecnologia. She has been Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Duke University, North Carolina-USA, and invited lecturer at the Chemistry Department of Shandong University, China. She has been Coordinator and is Responsible of various European Projects under 7th FP and H2020 on graphene and nanomaterials. She is Associate Editor since 2005 for “The European Physical Journal: Applied Physics." She has a broad experience in deposition by chemical vapor techniques also plasma assisted (CVD, MOCVD, PECVD,..) and by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) of graphene, various semiconductor and oxide materials as thin films and nanostructures, and in many surface-science techniques. She is a worldwide recognized expert in Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Polarimetry applied to interfaces and nanostructures. She has co-authored more than 250 publications.