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Prof. Dr. Francesca Venturini

Prof. Dr. Francesca Venturini

Prof. Dr. Francesca Venturini

ZHAW School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Angewandte Optik
Technikumstrasse 9
8400 Winterthur

+41 58 934 47 14
francesca.venturini@zhaw.ch

Work at ZHAW

Position

  • Head team Spectroscopy
  • Deputy head team Applied Optics
  • Professor of applied optics
  • Coordinator of the MSE Profile Photonics
  • Reviewer for Springer Nature, Elsevier, Optica, MDPI, Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Reviewer for the European Research Council

Focus

Optics, laser spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, absorption spectroscopy, sensor development, gas sensing, fiber optic, non-linear optics, solid state physics, superconductivity, magnet technology

Teaching

  • Physics 1 and 2
  • Case Studies Stock and Flow - Systeme 1 and 2
  • MSE: Optical Engineering and Metrology
  • CAS Digitale Technologien und Innovation

Experience

  • Expert for Innosuisse
    Innosuisse
    01 / 2023 - today
  • Cofounder and CTO
    TOELT GmbH
    11 / 2018 - today
  • Professor of applied optics
    ZHAW
    12 / 2017 - today
  • Researcher and lecturer
    ZHAW
    09 / 2013 - 11 / 2017
  • Head of product development R&D
    Mettler-Toledo AG
    06 / 2011 - 08 / 2013
  • Senior project manager R&D
    Mettler-Toledo AG
    08 / 2008 - 05 / 2011
  • Project manager R&D
    Bruker BioSpin AG
    08 / 2003 - 07 / 2008

Education and Continuing education

Education

  • PhD / Physics
    Technische Universität München, München, DE
    09 / 1998 - 04 / 2003
  • Graduate studies
    The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
    08 / 1997 - 07 / 1998
  • Master of Science (M.Sc.) / Physics
    Università degli Studi di Firenze, IT
    10 / 1992 - 07 / 1997

Continuing Education

  • CAS in Higher Education
    Pädagogische Hochschule Zurich, PHZH
    01 / 2016
  • PGCert Business Administration
    The Open University Business School, UK
    11 / 2007

Network

Membership of networks

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2562-9932

Social media

Projects

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Books, peer-reviewed

Venturini, F. (2003) Raman scattering study of electronic correlations in cuprates : observation of an unconventional metal insulator transition. Doctoral dissertation. Mensch-und-Buch-Verlag.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Other publications

Venturini, F. et al. (2023) 'Dataset of fluorescence spectra and chemical parameters of olive oils', in SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, 28 January - 2 February 2023. arXiv. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2301.04471.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Research data

Venturini, Francesca; Sperti, Michela; Michelucci, Umberto; Gucciardi, Arnaud; Martos, Vanessa; Deriu, Marco Agostino, 2022. Dataset of fluorescence spectra and chemical parameters of olive oils. Mendeley Data. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17632/thkcz3h6n6.6

Patents and patent applications