Ivo Buttinoni
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.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Self-propelling colloids
Asymmetric colloids
Colloidal monolayers
Optical Tweezers
Lipid Monolayers
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EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
From 2020
Heinrich-Heine University, Dept. of Physics
Group leader
2014 - 2017
ETH Zürich, Dept. of Materials
ETH Fellow
2007 - 2009
Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
Master's degree
2003 - 2007
Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Energy Engineering
Bachelor's degree
FUNDED PROJECTS
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
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
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
2023 -
Self-propelling colloids in optical potentials
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Individual Research Grant
2023 -
Mechanical Properties of Lipid Membranes in Microgravity (MEMSPACE)
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)