Anna Maria CUCOLO | Curriculum

Anna Maria Cucolo from 1972 to 1974 was Prof. Ayudante at the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid. She moved to the University of Salerno and from 1975 to 1978 she was assegnista MPI, from 1975 to the 1984 Assistent Professor and from 1985 to 1993 and Associate Professor of General Physics. Since 1994 she is Full Professor of General Physics / Fis 01 at the Physics Department, University of Salerno. She was Visiting Professor and spent several long stays abroad in  prestigious scientific institutions, as Tucson Univ., AZ (1985, 1987), Argonne National Laboratories, Chicago IL (1988), and AT&T and Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ (1989, 1991), Universite' Pierre et marie Curie, Paris (2003, 2006, 2010). AMC has been local responsible of different national projects both applicative and fundamental (ASI, CNR, INFM). From 1995 to 1998 she was Director of the Department of Physics, member of the it Consult of the Search and member of the Academic Senate of the University of Salerno.
She is responsible of the group of Scanning Probe Microscopy Laboratory at the Physics Department and NanoMates Interdipartimental Center at the University of Salerno. Her research activity has been devoted to the study of innovative materials, both from the point of view of fundamental physics and in view of applications. In particular she was involved in the deposition, characterization and study of thin films and Josephson junctions based on superconducting materials both low (Nb/Cu, Mo/Ta, etc.) and high transition temperature (YBaCuO/PrBaCuO, YBaCuO/SrTiO, etc.) as well as on the realization of artificial heterostructures of colossal magnetoresistance manganites and high Tc materials (YBaCuO/LaCaMnO). In the last years, detailed local field emission and photoconductivity studies have been carried out  by STM/AFM on Carbon Nanotubes. More recent research activities include MFM (Magnetic Force Microscopy) studies on colossal magnetorestistance thin films (LaCaMnO,  LaCaMnO) and on magnetic/superconducting structures (Py/Nb), EFM (Electrostatic Force Microscopy) applied to organic materials and AFM (Atomic Force Microscopy) to investigate biological  systems.