Ivo Buttinoni
I was born in Treviglio (Italy) in 1984. I earned a Master's degree in Nuclear Engineering at the Milan Polytechnic with an experimental work on magnetic manipulation of Pickering crude oil/water emulsions. In 2009 I moved to the University of Stuttgart where I obtained a PhD in Physics working on self-propelled Janus particles. In 2013 I moved to ETH Zürich where I was awarded an ETH postdoctoral fellowship to study the mechanical response of colloidal monolayers under shear. I was then a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Laboratory for Theoretical and Physical Chemistry in Oxford, working on active colloidal crystals and glasses. Since 2020 I lead the Institute of Experimental Colloidal Physics at Heinrich-Heine University in Duesseldorf.
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
RESEARCH INTERESTS
2014 - 2017
ETH Zürich, Dept. of Materials
ETH Fellow
FUNDED PROJECTS
Optical Tweezers
2010 - 2013
Active Brownian particles tunable by light
Marie Curie Initial Training Network - ITN Comploids
2014 - 2016
Colloidal monolayers under shear
ETH Zürich Postdoctoral Fellowship - FP7 Seventh Framework Programme
2017 - 2019
MicACol - Microrheology of two-dimensional active colloidal crystals and glasses
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship - MSCA H2020
2019 - 2020
Active colloidal glasses
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) - Advanced Mobility Programme
2015 - 2018
Phoretic micro-swimmers at liquid-liquid interfaces: a new route towards active materials
ETH Research Grant - in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Lucio Isa
FORMER ADVISORS
Roel Dullens
Oxford Colloid Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Lucio Isa
Laboratory for Interfaces, Soft Matter and Assembly, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Giovanni Volpe
Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden
Clemens Bechinger
Department of Physics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Roberto Piazza
Department of Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy