Riccardo Bertacco

Riccardo Bertacco

POLIFAB

Professor

Short bio

Riccardo Bertacco received his PhD in Physics in 2000. In 2001 he has been visiting researcher in the group of A. Fert (Nobel Laureate for Physics 2007) working on oxide spintronics. He is full professor at the Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano, where he leads the Nanomagnetism for Biology and Spintronics group (http://nabis.fisi.polimi.it/). From 2015 to 2021 he has been vice and director of the micro and nanofabrication facility (PoliFab) of Politecnico di Milano (http://polifab.polimi.it/).
He is currently member of the board of the European Magnetic Association. Starting from a background on electron spectroscopy and surface magnetism, his research activity is nowadays focused on spintronics, nanoelectronics, nanobiotechnologies and MEMS.
He is the scientific coordinator of the POLIMI node of the NFFA-DI research infrastructure.