Prof. Dr Angelo Di Bernardo Curriculum Vitae PERSONAL DETAILS

Birth 18th June 1987 Phone: +49 1763 2646151 Address Sonnenbühlstraße 49, Konstanz, 78464 Email: [email protected]

WORK AND EDUCATION Associate Professor (W2 Universitätsprofessor until Sept. 2024) 2020 – present University of Konstanz, Germany Appointed as Associate Professor in experimental physics with complex materials until the end of September 2024 by the University of Konstanz. 2019 – present Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group Leader University of Konstanz, Germany Awarded one of the six Sofja Kovalevskaja grants across all disciplines in 2019 from the Humboldt Foundation to establish a research group at the University of Konstanz working on superconducting spintronics with oxides and 2D materials. 2016 – 2019 Junior Research Fellow St John’s College, Cambridge Elected as one of the five Junior Research Fellows appointed by St John’s College out of more than 1000 applicants in the academic year 2016-2017. Awarded this prestigious three-year long Fellowship to pursue research in the field of 2D materials with applications in spintronics and superconductivity at the University of Cambridge. 2012 – 2016 NanoDTC Ph.D. University of Cambridge 4-year-long Ph.D. program with a 1-year Master + 3-year Ph.D. structure. Ph.D. supervisor: Prof. Jason Robinson. Ph.D. thesis: Unconventional superconducting states at superconductor interfaces. Passed the Ph.D. exam with an excellent grade and no correction to the thesis (the latter is regarded as an outstanding and rare achievement at the University of Cambridge). 2011 – 2012 Professional Science Master’s Degree in Nanoscience Arizona State University Final GPA of 4.0/4.0. Project title: Electronic and vibrational properties of magnetic core-shell nanoparticles. 2008 – 2011 Second Cycle Degree (M.Sc.) in Biomedical Engineering University of Naples Federico II Two-year program earned with a grade of 110/110 Cum Laude; average grade 29.91/30, with 7 exams out of 18 awarded the distinction Cum Laude. 2005 – 2008 First Cycle Degree (B.Sc.) in Biomedical Engineering University of Naples Federico II Three-year program earned with a grade of 110/110 Cum Laude; average grade 29.83/30, with 11 exams out of 32 awarded the distinction Cum Laude.

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2019-2024) Received one of the six highly prestigious Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards given by the Humboldt Foundation every year internationally and across all disciplines to lead an independent research group at the University of Konstanz.

CV, page 1 of 6 Junior Research Fellowship, St John’s College, Cambridge (2016-2019) Fully funded three-year position (total award value of about £100,000) to pursue research as an independent investigator at the University of Cambridge.

Brian Pippard Prize, Institute of Physics (2018) Most prestigious prize in superconductivity in the UK awarded to a single scientist who has made a significant contribution to the research field.

ESAS Prize for Young Researchers (2017) Winner of the prize given to a young researcher working on superconductivity by the European Society for Applied Superconductivity (ESAS).

International IEEE Fellowship Award (2015) Selected by the IEEE Council of Superconductivity as one of the five awardees of the international prize ($5,000) for research contributions in the field of superconductivity.

George and Lillian Schiff Foundation Studentship, University of Cambridge (2012- 2016) Recipient of the only Schiff Foundation Ph.D. studentship (total value of £56,000) awarded in the academic year 2012-2013 to carry out Ph.D. research in Engineering and Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge.

Fulbright Self-Placed Scholarship, The US-Italy Fulbright Commission (2011) Ranked as one of the final three Italian national recipients at the completion of a merit-based selection process with the participation of thousands of the most outstanding Italian graduates of all disciplines. Won this prestigious scholarship ($38,000) to pursue a master’s degree at Arizona State University.

Guglielmo D’Ambrosio Award, University of Naples Federico II (2009) Prize (€3,000) earned for the most outstanding graduating student for the First Cycle Degree of the College of Engineering with more than 3,000 students enrolled in the same year (average grade 29.89/30), with 11 exams out of 32 awarded the distinction cum Laude.

Finalist in the Italian National Mathematical Olympiad Contest (2005) Achieved the first place in the Region of Campania; reported in the national newspaper il Mattino.

RESEARCH GRANTS AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR 2021 EU FET-Open grant for research project “Gate Tuneable Superconducting Quantum Electronics (SuperGate) – 3 years, total award 3.05 million euros (of which more than 900,000 euros granted to the University of Konstanz having Prof. Di Bernardo, Prof. Scheer and Prof. Belzig as PIs).

2020 − Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) grant within SPP2244 priority programme on "2D Materials - Physics of van der Waals heterostructures" – 3 years, cumulative award around 500,000 euros (shared with three other PIs), individual award around 100,000 euros. − Young Scholar Fund awarded by the University of Konstanz for project "Molecule- superconductor hybrid devices for quantum electrons" – 2 years, total granted around 80,000 euros (individual award).

2019 Sofja Kovalevskaja research grant awarded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for project “Superconducting spintronics with oxides and 2D materials” – 5 years, total granted around 1.65 million euros (individual award)

CV, page 2 of 6 PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Conference organiser "Symmetry and non-linearity in low-dimensional systems" (online), 31st Agust-1st September 2020. “Superconducting Spintronics and Majorana Physics”, Cambridge, 15th-16th March 2018.

Conference chairman Chairman at ICSM 2018, Majorana Physics Symposium 2018, OSS Workshop 2017, Spice Workshop 2017.

Peer-reviewer Referee for several international scientific journals like Nature Communications, Europhysics Letters, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, APL Materials, Scientific Reports.

College appointment Vice-Dean of discipline at St John’s College from year 2017 to year 2019.

TEACHING AND SUPERVISING EXPERIENCE Lecturer University of Konstanz, Germany Course “Nanofabrication and nanocharacterisation techniques” for Summer Semester 2021-2022 the master’s degree program in Physics (4 hours lectures + 2 hours exercises per week) – course already assigned. Course “Superconductivity: fundamentals and applications” for the Winter Semester 2020-2021 master’s degree program in Physics (4 hours lectures + 2 hours exercises per week)

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Course “Nanomagnetism” (NE07 course for M.Phil. and NanoDTC Academic years 2017/2018 Ph.D. students). and 2018/2019 Course “Mathematical Methods” (C8 course for part II students in Academic year 2018/2019 Materials Science). Course “Materials aspects of microdevices” (M18 course for part Academic year 2018/2019 III students in Materials Science).

Research supervisor University of Konstanz, Germany Has supervised/co-supervised four Ph.D. students to date at the University of Konstanz: − Mr Roman Hartmann (October 2019 – to date) − Mr Alfredo Spuri (co-supervised with Prof. Scheer; October 2020 – to date) − Miss Priyana Puliyappara Babu (November 2020 – to date) − Mr Marcel Dennis Strohmeier (co-supervised with Prof. Scheer; March 2020 – to date)

He is currently supervising two bachelor’s students (Mr Jan Christ and Miss Coralie Ose) during their short research projects and preparation of their bachelor’s theses.

From June 2021 onwards he will also mentor a postdoctoral research assistant hired to join his group to carry out research within the EU FET-Open SuperGate research programme.

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Has co-supervised the Ph.D. student Miss Carla Palomares Garcia from October 2016 to September 2019 (jointly with Prof. Jason Robinson).

CV, page 3 of 6 Lab demonstrator and teaching assistant University of Cambridge, United Kingdom − Teaching assistant for tutorial classes in Nanomagnetism (M.Phil. and NanoDTC students) in the academic years 2015-2016, 2016-2017. − Teaching assistant for tutorial classes in Mathematical methods (part II students) in the academic years 2015-2016 and 2016-2017. − Teaching assistant for tutorial classes in Materials Aspects of Microdevices (part III students) in the academic year 2015-2016. − Demonstrator for BP2 and BP3 lab tutorials of Materials for devices (part IA students) in the academic year 2015-2016. − Student supervisor for the ‘Literature review project’ (part III students) in the academic year 2016-2017 and for the ‘Techniques project’ (part III students) in the academic years 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018. − Has trained more than 30 researchers including Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers on the usage of research equipment and lab techniques in the Device Materials Group of the University of Cambridge between the years 2013 and 2019.

Science outreach Talk “My journey in academia: considerations from an early-career scientist” for the Early Career Scientist Symposium organised by the Diamond Light Source in Didcot, UK to inspire the next generation of scientists and researchers (online; 26th-30th October 2020).

Talk for the general public on “Superconductivity and its applications” for the general public at the annual Cambridge Science Festivals in the years 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019.

Videoconference “Nanoscience: when small things matter” for the IFPI in Teresina, Brazil on 12th June 2019.

INVITED TALKS (selected) Lecture Series (on invitation) Three lectures on hybrid superconducting oxide devices at the OSS Workshop in Kyoto, Japan, 25th-29th November 2017. Two lectures on superconductivity and magnetism at the ESAS Winter School in Pozzuoli, Italy, 12th-16th December 2016.

Conferences (on invitation) Has given more than 30 invited talks up to February 2021 (a selection of which is reported below)

− “Superconducting spintronics: a short review and future perspectives”, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, 12th December 2019. − “Nodal superconducting exchange coupling”, 14th International workshop on magnetism and Superconductivity, Coma-Ruga, Spain, 1st July 2019. − “The rise of superconducting spintronics”, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, 29th January 2019. − “Fingerprints of spin-triplet states for superconducting spintronics”, IOP award talk, Bristol, UK, 10th January 2019. − “Unconventional states at superconductor interfaces with broken symmetry”, MPI, Stuttgart, Germany, 12th October 2018. − “Probing superconductivity at the YBCO/SRO interface”, OSS-IS 2018 conference, Sapporo, Japan, 7th-9th August 2018. − “Oxide superconducting spintronics”, ICSM 2018, Antalya, Turkey, 29th April – 4th May 2018. − “Unconventional states in S/F heterostructures”, University of Salerno, 16th November 2017.

CV, page 4 of 6 − “Unconventional superconducting states at superconductor interfaces”, 628 Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar, Bad Honnef, Germany, 14th-18th November 2016. − “p-wave superconductivity in graphene on an oxide superconductor”, UFOX conference, Salerno, Italy, 7th-8th July 2016. − “Odd-frequency spin-triplet states at superconductor interfaces”, ICSM 2016, Fethiye, Turkey, 24th-30th April 2016. − “Paramagnetic Meissner effect in S/F heterostructures”, University of Kyoto, Japan, 20th December 2016. − “Gapless superconductivity at S/F interfaces”, NTNU, Norway, 27th November 2015.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

For a complete list of publication, refer to Google Scholar. A selection of papers is reported below

1) A. Di Bernardo, S. Komori, G. Livanas, P. Gentile, M. Cuoco, J. W. A. Robinson. Nodal superconducting exchange coupling. Nature Materials 18, 1194 (2019). 2) E.M. Choi, A. Di Bernardo, B. Zhu, P. Lu, H. Alpern, K.H.L. Zhang, T. Shapira, J. Feighan, X. Sun, J.W.A.Robinson, Y. Paltiel, O. Millo, H. Wang, Q. Jia, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll. 3D-strain

induced superconductivity in La2CuO4+δ using a simple vertically-aligned nanocomposite approach. Science Advances 5, eaav5532 (2018). 3) S. Komori, A. Di Bernardo, A.I. Buzdin, M.G. Blamire, J.W.A. Robinson. Magnetic exchange fields and domain wall superconductivity at an all-oxide superconductor/ferromagnet insulator interface. Physical Review Letters 121, 077003 (2018). 4) A. Di Bernardo, Y. Kalcheim, M. Barbone, D. De Fazio, U. Sassi, A. Ott., J. Linder, A.C. Ferrari, O. Millo, J.W.A. Robinson. P-wave triggered superconductivity in single-layer graphene on an electron-doped oxide superconductor. Nature Communications 8, 140024 (2017). 5) A. Srivastava, L.A.B. Olde Olthof, A. Di Bernardo, S. Komori, M. Amado, C. Palomares- Garcia, M. Alidoust, K. Halterman, M.G. Blamire, J.W.A. Robinson. Magnetization-control and transfer of spin-polarized Cooper pairs into a half-metal manganite. Physical Review Applied 8, 044008 (2017). 6) J.A. Ouassou, A. Di Bernardo, J.W.A. Robinson, J. Linder. Electric control of superconducting transition through a spin-orbit coupled interface. Scientific Reports 6, 29312 (2016). 7) A. Di Bernardo, Z. Salman, X.L. Wang, M. Amado, M. Egilmez, M.G. Flokstra, A. Suter, S.L. Lee, J.H. Zhao, T. Prokscha, E. Morenzoni, M.G. Blamire, J. Linder, J.W.A. Robinson. Intrinsic paramagnetic Meissner effect due to s-wave odd frequency superconductivity. Physical Review X 5, 041021 (2015). 8) A. Di Bernardo, S. Diesch, Y. Gu, J. Linder, E. Scheer, M.G. Blamire, J.W.A. Robinson. Signature of magnetic-dependent gapless odd frequency states at superconductor/ferromagnet interfaces. Nature Communications 6, 8053 (2015). 9) Y. Kalcheim, O. Millo, A. Di Bernardo, A. Pal, J.W.A. Robinson. Inverse proximity effect at superconductor/ferromagnet interfaces: evidence for induced triplet pairing in the superconductor. Physical Review B Rapid Communications 92, 060501 (2015). 10) X.L. Wang, A. Di Bernardo, N. Banerjee, A. Wells, F.S. Bergeret, M.G. Blamire, J.W.A. Robinson. Giant triplet proximity effect in superconducting pseudo spin valves with engineered anisotropy. Physical Review B Rapid Communications 89, 140508 (2014).

RESEARCH EXPEDITIONS Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland Has led more than 10 research expeditions first as Ph.D. student in the years from 2013 to 2014 and then as principal investigator in the years from 2016 to 2020 at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland to carry out muon measurements on a variety of physical systems including Au/Ho/Nb thin film heterostructures, Chiral molecules on Nb thin films, Sr2RuO4 single crystals.

CV, page 5 of 6 Diamond Light Source, Didcot, UK Led research project as principal investigator on the study of magnetism in 2D helimagnetic materials by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (January 2021).

Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Research work on tunnelling devices with 2D materials in the group of Prof. Hadar Steinberg at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (September 2019).

University of Salerno, Italy Growth of single-crystals of Nb-doped Sr2TiO4 in the group of Dr Antonio Vecchione at the University of Salerno (November 2017).

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Growth of V-doped Bi2Se3 thin films in the group of Dr Jagadeesh Moodera by molecular beam epitaxy (February 2015).

University of Konstanz, Germany Two research visits as Ph.D. student (March 2014 and October 2014) to carry out low-temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy measurements on Nb/Ho heterostructures. Awarded a mobility grant from COST Action MP1201 for this project.

TECHNICAL SKILLS Programming skills Matlab, Labview, Mathematica, C++, electromagnetic/thermal CAD (SemcadX), TD-DFT software (Gaussian, Orca, and Abinit), specialised software for muon measurements (Musrfit). AutoCAD.

Language skills Italian and English (native level), German (basic; currently taking intensive courses to improve it to advanced).

Experimental skills Dc and rf magnetron sputtering, pulsed laser deposition, exfoliation and dry transfer of graphene and other 2D materials, oxide target fabrication, nanoparticle synthesis, electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, X-ray diffraction, ac/dc transport measurements, lithography techniques, cryogenic and dilution refrigeration systems, low-temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy, low-energy muon spectroscopy, X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, broadband electromagnetic characterization with vectorial network analyser, vibrational sample magnetometry.

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