Personal data:
Born in Ferrara (Italy) on 25-05-1965, Italian citizenship, married with one daughter, resident in Via Carlo Mayr 122, 44121 Ferrara, tel. 0532974284, e-mails guidi@fe.infn.it and vincenzo.guidi@unife.it

Formation:
• Bachelor in Physics with score 110/110 and lode (summa cum laude) at Ferrara University on 12-07-90 under the supervision of Prof. P. Dalpiaz.
• Doctorate in Physics at Legnaro National Labs during the years 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993.
• Fellowship at “Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics” of Novosibirsk (Russia) in 1991.
• Ph.D. in Physics after doctoral dissertation on 17-10-94 about a thesis "Study and Realization of a GaAs Electron Source for the Physics of Accelerators" under the guidance of Prof. P. Dalpiaz.

Academic position:
• Researcher in Experimental Physics (FIS/01) from 01-03-94 to 31-10-06 at Faculty of Engineering of Ferrara University.
• Associate Professor in Experimental Physics (FIS/01) from 01-11-06 to 30-12-11 at Faculty of Engineering of Ferrara University.
• Full Professor in Experimental Physics (FIS/01) since 31-12-11 at Faculty of Engineering of Ferrara University.

Awards:
Vincenzo Guidi is member of the Italian Physics Society since 1991, from which he was awarded in 1992 for scientific merit.

Invited talks at conferences:
Vincenzo Guidi has performed more than 25 invited talks about his scientific activity.

Conference organizer:
• Organizer of the international conference 3rd Euroconference on Atomic Physics with Stored Highly Charged Ions", Ferrara, 22-26 September 1997.
• Organizer of annual meeting “9th Italian Conference on Sensors and Microsystems”, Ferrara, 8-11 February 2004.
• Organizer of the international symposium “Nanostructured Materials and Hybrid Composites for Gas Sensors and Biomedical Applications“, on behalf of the Material Research Society of the United States of America, San Francisco,17-20 April 2006.
• Organizer of international symposium “Functional Materials for Chemical and Biochemical Sensors“, on behalf of the Material Research Society of the United States of America, San Francisco, 9-13 April 2007.
• Organizer of the international conference “Channeling 2010”, Ferrara, 3-8 October 2010.
• Organizer of the international workshop "The 8th GOSPEL Workshop. Gas Sensors Based on Semiconducting Metal Oxides: Basic Understanding & Application Fields", Ferrara, 20-21 June 2019.
• Organizer of the international symposium "XXXVII International Symposium on Dynamical Properties of Solids (DyProSo2019)", Ferrara, 8-12 September 2019.

Editorial roles:
• Member of the Editorial Board of “Sensors”, published by MDPI (IF=3.275)
• Guest editor of a special issue in Hyperfine Interactions about publication of the proceedings of the conference 3rd Euroconference on Atomic Physics with Stored Highly Charged Ions".
• Guest editor of a special issue in Sensors, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/GOSPEL_2019", for the publication of the proceedings of the 8th GOSPEL Workshop. Gas Sensors Based on Semiconducting Metal Oxides: Basic Understanding & Application Fields"
• Former member of the editorial board of Sensors Letters (American Scientific Publishing).
• Former member of the editorial board of The Open Applied Physics Journal (Bentam Science Publisher).
• Academic reviewer (referee) for several international peer-reviewed journals and congresses

Patents:
"Device for the temporal analysis of optical phenomena in the picosecond and femtosecond domains" (code PD95A0001000).
"Concentrator of hard X-rays for radiotherapy" (code 102016000096983).


Scientific publications:
Vincenzo Guidi is author of:
>300 articles published in peer-reviewed international journals;
>250 contributions to the proceedings of conferences, congresses, workshops;
6 contributions to books or prefaces of conference proceedings;
4 internal reports of international laboratories;
2 works out of the stream of Physics (Italian philology).

Hirsh factor:
The Hirsh factor of Vincenzo Guidi is H ≥ 55.

Institutional charges:
• Director of the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences for the academic years 18-19, 19-20, 20-21.
• Deputy chancellor, delegate for Sustainability Policies of the University of Ferrara since 2013.
• Coordinator of the Doctoral School in Physics at Ferrara University from 2012 to 2019.
• Member of the Research Council Board in representation of the area of Physics for Ferrara University during the academic years 97-98, 98-99, 99-00, 00-01 and 03-04, 04-05, 05-06, 06-07.
• Member of the Research Council Board in representation of the area of Physics for Ferrara University in the academic years 03-04, 04-05, later confirmed for the years 05-06, 06-07.
• Committee member in representation of the areas of Mathematics, Physics and Earth during the academic years 97-98, 98-99, 99-00, 00-01 and 03-04, 04-05, 05-06 and 06-07 to promote activities pertaining research at Ferrara University.
• Member of the Administration Council of Ferrara University in representation of the areas of Mathematics, Physics and Earth during the academic years 99-00 and 00-01.
• Member of the Academic Senate of Ferrara University in representation of the areas of Mathematics, Physics and Earth during the academic years 05-06 and 06-07 and as a Director of the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences for the academic years 18-19, 19-20, 20-21
• Local coordinator of Ferrara INFN section for the Fifth National Scientific Council during the periods 1999-2001 and 2002-2004.
• Observer for the Third National Scientific Council during the period 2002-2004.
• Referee of several experiments of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) with scientific and financial evaluation of experiments of Nuclear Physics, Medical Physics, Accelerator Physics and related technologies.
• Local (PRIN 2004083253) and national (PRIN 2008TMS4ZB) coordinator of national projects, local coordinator of European (INTAS-CERN 2000-132, INTAS-CERN 03-52-6155, APOLLON, EUCARD, CUTE, PEARL, N-LIGHT), and regional projects (MIST-ER, PROMINER, ADADIN, TROPIC, projects of Emilia Romagna region for micro- e nano-technologies).
• National responsible, continuously from 2010 to 2020 of (projects COHERENT, ICE-RAD, CHANEL, AXIAL, ELIOT) and local responsible (projects LODE e DEGIMON) for the Fifth Committee of INFN. Local responsible of a project for the First Committee of INFN (UA9 project).
• National coordinator of a six-year long special project of INFN for New Technologies for Accelerators (NTA-HCCC).

Hobbies:
Classical Italian literature. Other than his passion, Vincenzo Guidi has a little scientific production in specialised journals in philology.

Scientific activity:

The scientific activity of Vincenzo Guidi has consisted of Semiconductor Physics, Nanosized Materials and particular emphasis to the applications to Accelerator Physics. He has been team leader of the Sensors and Semiconductors Lab (SSL) at Ferrara University since 2010. SSL consists of several labs, including a 125 m2 clean-room facility, equipped with high-quality and modern instrumentation for semiconductor studies, for an investment of more than 5 million euros. There are currently four main activities being pursued at SSL, namely silicon micro-fabrication for investigation of coherent effect in crystals, gas sensing via chemoresistive materials, hard x-ray optics through curved crystals and concentrated photovoltaics. At SSL, counting 25 people involved (5 staff members), basic investigations on semiconductors are harmonized with a traditional inclination toward applied research.

Here we briefly sketch the scientific activity of Vincenzo Guidi over time.
• In 1989 he initially studied photoemission from GaAs as a non-conventional electron source. It was demonstrated that a GaAs photocathode is a sub-thermal source of electrons and that the resulting emitted beam, after acceleration in a proper optics, can attain a special condition with a plasma parameter greater than one, i.e., with a dynamics of the electrons in the beam similar to that on the molecules in a liquid. GaAs was also identified to be suitable as a photo-emitter for a spin-polarized high density electron source in a RF gun. In this field, he suggested and patented the design of an RF-based streak camera with sub-ps time resolution.
• The sub-thermal feature of the GaAs electron source suggested its usage in electron cooling. Deepening the studies on beam particle cooling, he proposed and participated in initiatives on laser cooling at ion beams (TSR in Heidelberg), experimenting new schemes based on broad-band laser radiation. He was also involved in a conceptual study for the realization of an ion storage ring to attain a crystalline ion beam, i.e., a ultra-cold systems of ions maintaining reciprocal ordered positions in the ring.
• In 1996 he co-founded the Sensors and Semiconductors Lab (SSL) at Ferrara University with the aim to studying nano-phased metal oxides for gas sensing via chemo-resistive effect. In particular, he studied the correlation existing between gas-sensitivity of films vs. structural features of the sensing materials. It was pursued the investigation of novel materials for gas-sensing (such as WO3, TiO2, MoO3, metal sulphides, graphene oxide,…) and some new methods for their deposition were established. Information on basic sensing mechanisms and on grain coalescence in metal-oxides were found out as well as new methods for grain-growth inhibition. He deepened the understanding of gas-sensing also from the theoretical standpoint. Some models highlighting the effects of small dimensionality of nanograins and their correlation to the gas-sensing qualities were put forward. The chemical affinity of a material to the gases through chemo-resistive effect was ascribed to the density of superficial acceptor states of the nano-grains and of its consequent pinning/unpinning of the Fermi level within the semiconductor.
• From 2000 onward, he undertook research activity with major Russian Institutions about manipulation of relativistic particle beams (1-1000 GeV) for reflection, extraction, collimation, focusing, undulation, and others via coherent orientational interactions in crystals. Owing to the crystal designed and fabricated at SSL in Ferrara, it proved possible to achieve crystal-assisted proton extraction out from a proton synchrotron at extraordinarily high efficiency (larger than 85% to be compared to a few-percent figures of previous experiments). By re-visitation and adaptation of micro-fabrication techniques of high-quality silicon crystals, it was discovered the effect of volume reflection, a new coherent effect of a particle in a crystal. Such an effect highlighted single-pass deflection efficiency larger than 97% for 400 GeV protons in a silicon crystal. These results enabled the proposition of an experiment for collimation in the SPS of CERN (by the UA9 collaboration), which recently culminated in the successful collimation of 6.5 TeV proton beams in the LHC. Later, the experimentation was also successfully conducted on lead ions in the LHC.
Crystal-assisted techniques are nowadays regarded as powerful tools for the manipulation of the particle trajectories in an accelerator physics.
The hard and intense radiation generated by electrons as a result of coherent interaction with atoms of a bent crystal was recently demonstrated to be an innovative method for production of gamma rays with superior characteristics than it would be achieved by synchrotron radiation as generated by the same incoming beam (ICE-RAD, CHANEL, AXIAL, ELIOT experiments).
He was PI of experiments at external lines at CERN and ESRF for more than a decade and responsible of unit in European Projects.
Currently, SSL is supplier of crystals to study coherent interactions to major laboratories worldwide, such as CERN, SLAC, and MAMI.
• Owing to the experience gained on semiconductors, he co-founded the Sensors and Semiconductors Lab (SSL) at Ferrara University with the aim to support INFN experiments and to seek for potential applications of the semiconductors that could be spinned-off to industries or capital venturers.
This activity was particularly fruitful initially in the field of chemical sensing based on semiconductors owing to a collaboration with enterprises (e.g. SACMI s.c.) and to support startups on gas sensing devices. In particular, new gas sensing materials were prepared as functional materials tailored to be the input units for electronic noses. More recently, concentrated photovoltaics was also addressed to design and built prototypes for modules equipped with an innovative tracker and concentration geometry, borrowed by Cassgrain telescopes. As a result, a plant for fabrication of such modules was built in Crevalcore (Bologna) thanks to the investment of 4 million euro private capitals.

Didactic activity for short:

He began academic teaching in 1993-96 as an assistant about General Physics. Since 1997, he was endorsed as a lecturer with the following courses, mainly carried out the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Sciences of Ferrara University.
• General Physics (22 times)
• Methods of Observation and Measurements (14 times)
• Probability and Statistics (advanced course) (11 times)
• Statistics and modeling of experimental data (English) (4 times)
• Metrology (4 times)
• Laboratory of Semiconductors (3 times)
• Experimental Physics (1 times)
• Laboratory of Physical Technologies (1 times)
• Laboratory of Physical Instrumentation (1 times)
• Techniques and methods for Environmental Monitoring (1 times)

He was contract professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the Free University of Bolzano continuously from the academic year 10-11 through 16-17.

He has been supervisor of more than 50 students, mainly in Physics, but also in Material Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electronic Engineering and Pharmacy.
He has been member of the Doctorate School in Physics of Ferrara University, at which is carries out lecturing activity. He supervised the thesis of more than 20 PhD students
He was teacher of Measurements (60 hours) in a master on "Experts in sensing for atmospheric environmental monitoring", organised by the Physics Department of Ferrara University in 1996.
In 2006 Vincenzo Guidi lectured on “Principles of Optics” at the “International School on Concentrated Photovoltaics”.