Ass. Prof. Valentina Martelli
Room: 3047 (Ala-2, main building)
Email: valentina.martelli@usp.br
Telephone: +55 11 30917088
Biography
2019 – present
Assistent Professor at the Institute of Physics (University of São Paulo)
2015-2018
Post-Doc at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF, Rio de Janeiro)
2012-2015
University Assistant at the Vienna University of Technology (TU-WIEN, Vienna)
2009-2012
PhD from the University of Florence (LENS-Institute)
2006 – 2008
Master in Physics (University of Florence)
2002 – 2006
Bachelor in Physics (University of Florence)
Research interests
- Thermal transport in innovative quantum materials (Topological Insulators, Weyl-semimetals, Heavy fermions, complex oxides, Kondo insulators and semimetals)
- Synthesis of low dimensionality topological insulators
- Investigate fundamentals of thermal transport phenomena in insulators and semimetals, from bulk to thin films.
- Development of state-of-the-art experimental setups for the investigation of quantum matter under extreme conditions
Collaborators map
Selected publications
Thermal diffusivity and its lower bound in orthorhombic SnSe
Thermal transport and phonon hydrodynamics in strontium titanate
