Caterina Gaudiuso
Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Biography
Caterina Gaudiuso received her Master Degree (cum Laude) and PhD in Physics from University of Bari (Italy) in 2011 and 2016, respectively. During her PhD, she spent a period of research as visiting PhD student at the Institut für Angewandte Physik of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany), under the supervision of Prof. S Nolte. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Physics Department, University of Bari and her main research interest is laser ablation with ultrafast lasers. Her research is especially focused on the generation of bursts of picosecond-delayed sub-pulses, the study of the infl uence on the ablation process of the sub-pulse period within the burst and number of sub-pulses in the burst, the onset of damage process and the incubation effect. Recently, she has become interested in the use of bursts of sub-pulses for nano- and micro-structuring of materials, for varying the wettability and tribological properties of surfaces. The products of her research are 3 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 4 conference proceedings and 7 contributed conference presentations.