Benedetta Camarota

Benedetta started working with Prof. Schwab when she joined his Nanomechanics group in 2001, to be part of the team developing a nearly quantum limited position detection scheme for a nanomechanical resonator (M. LaHaye, O. Buu, B. Camarota and K. Schwab, Science 2004).

Since Summer 2004 she is also in Physics Graduate School Program at the University of Maryland, and she is at the moment engaged in her dissertation research on a shot noise-limited detection scheme for a DC-biased Single Electron Transistor.
Before moving to the States Benedetta spent three years at the CNRS-CRTBT in Grenoble (France) where she worked in the group of Dr. Olivier Buisson on plasma modes in superconducting wires (B. Camarota et al., PRL 2001). She previously spent three years working with an Italian company (Alenia) on a project on High Temperature Superconducting YBCO films.

Benedetta completed her Physics degree at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1994, with a (master-equivalent) thesis on BSCCO thin films under the direction of Dr. Dino Fiorani (CNR-ISM)