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Paola Borri

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Paola Borri is an Italian physicist whose research in biophotonics has included the use of Raman scattering in 3d microscopy of cancer-derived organoids.[1] Other topics in her research have included nonlinear optics and the study of quantum dots. She is a professor of biosciences and of physics and astronomy at Cardiff University, coordinator of the European Marie Curie ETN consortium MUSIQ,[2] and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[3]

Education and career

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Borri studied physics at the University of Florence, earning a laurea in 1993 and a Ph.D. in 1997. She became a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Denmark and at the Technical University of Dortmund, where she completed a habilitation in 2003 before taking her present position at Cardiff in 2004.[2] Her habilitation thesis, Coherent Light-matter Interaction in Semiconductor Quantum Dots, was published as a book by Shaker Verlag (2004). She was given a personal chair at Cardiff in 2011.[2]

Recognition

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Borri won a Marie Curie Excellence Award in 2006, for her work on "semiconductor nanostructures and their ultra-fast response to laser light".[4] She was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2013.[3] In 2015, she was a recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Smith, Mark (20 October 2017), "Cardiff University scientists have developed a new microscope which can examine cancer cells in 3D", Wales Online
  2. ^ a b c Professor Paola Borri, Cardiff University, retrieved 2021-05-02
  3. ^ a b "Professor Paola Borri, FLSW", Fellows, Learned Society of Wales, retrieved 2021-05-02
  4. ^ 2006 Marie Curie Excellence Awards recognise five outstanding researchers, European Commission, 16 November 2006, retrieved 2021-05-02
  5. ^ Royal Society announces recipients of prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Awards, The Royal Society, 12 March 2015, retrieved 2021-05-02
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