Lorenzo Ferrara

Experience

• 

  Laboratorio di Interazione Laser-Materia, Università degli Studi di Pavia

  Apr 2007 - Oct 2007

  Research Grant

  Characterization and installation of EUV filters for UVCI coronagraph.HERSCHEL projectSkills involved:- Hollow cathode light source- High vacuum pumping- Spectroscopy

• 

  Laboratorio di Elettronica Quantistica, Università degli studi di Pavia

  Nov 2010 - Jan 2011

  Research Grant

  Design of integrated optical devices for the evaluation of the mechanical properties of cells membraneSkills involved:- Optical fiber setup- Microfluidics- Biophotonics- Labview and Matlab

• 

  Fondazione Istituto Neurologico Nazionale “Casimiro Mondino"

  Feb 2011 - Aug 2011

  Term employment contract

  Design of an optical setup for two-photon-fluorescence on neural tissue, REALNET projectSkills invovled:- Confocal optical setup- SLM - holography expertise- Nonlinear optics

• 

  Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

  Jan 2012 - Jun 2017

  Design and development of an optical system based on DMD technology for high resolution photo-lithography- Design of optoelectronic setup for UV 3D printing;- Programming and automation of Digital Light Processing (DLP) unit, UV LED andmicromanipulators;- CAD design;- Replica molding of polymeric microfluidc structures Study and implementation of an optoelectronic setup for the emulation of the C.elegans connectome. FP7 project Si-Elegans.Skills involved:- Labview programming- DLP projectors control- Lens Replica Molding and 3D printing- CAD design- Optical setup Study and characterization of the interaction between gold clusters and patterned substrates via nanomilling, electron-beam deposition and annealing. Nanopatterning in not-flat substrates.Skills:- Clean room expertise- Electron beam lithography, SEM-FIB nanopatterning, annealing- Spectroscopy Design and fabrication of new photonic plasmonic devices able to provide a well focused beam of light with a diameter of 10 nm to control the activation of single light sensitive molecules and to allow theinvestigation of molecular computation in a biological environment and with an unprecedented resolutionSkills involved:- Clean room expertise- AFM, SEM, FIB, ICP-RIE, EBL, PVD expertise- 2-photon-polymerization- Matlab and Labview

  • Postdoc

    Jan 2017 - Jun 2017

  • Postdoc

    Jul 2014 - Dec 2016

  • Postdoc

    Jan 2014 - Jul 2014

  • Post Doc

    Jan 2012 - Dec 2013
• 

  Medical University of Vienna

  Jul 2017 - Dec 2019

  Postdoc

  Development of an optical setup for optical biometry based on swept-source partial coherence interferometry.- single mode fiber and free propagation Mach Zehnder interferometry- swept source analysis- clinical application- VCSEL expertise

• 

  Top itservices AG; Carl Zeiss Meditec

  Jul 2021 - Mar 2024

  System Engineer

  Development of OCT Biometer with cataract penetration. Threshold power evaluation of femtosecond laser for refractive surgery. System requirements definition. Biological sample preparation and testing. Report procedures and verification. Calibration, characterization and In-house test measurements. Prototype and Demonstrator development and characterization. Support for clinical affairs and risk management for clinical trial documentation. Management of external industrial and university partners. Show less

• 

  Dornier MedTech

  Apr 2024 - now

  Senior Development Engineer Medical Laser