COVA FRANCESCA

Role
Assistant Professor  
Academic disciplines
Experimental Physics of Matter and Applications (PHYS-03/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS OF MATTER AND APPLICATIONS (02/PHYS-03)

Publications

  • Cova, F., Girola, M., Stabile, M., Puiu, A., Nagorny, S., Tomei, C., et al. (2025). Effect of point defects on the performances of Li2MoO4 and Li2WO4 crystals as scintillating cryogenic calorimeters. JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS, 1022(10 April 2025) [10.1016/j.jallcom.2025.179848]. Detail

  • Parrino, F., Gottuso, A., Vigano', L., Mariani, P., Villa, I., Cova, F., et al. (2025). Singlet Oxygen Photocatalytic Generation by Silanized TiO2 Nanoparticles. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE. INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 64(2 (January 10, 2025)) [10.1002/anie.202414445]. Detail

  • Cova, F., Ronchi, A., Hostaša, J., Picelli, F., Esposito, L., Biasini, V., et al. (2025). NIR-emitting scintillation of YAG optical ceramics as a testing platform for radio-bioimaging. MRS COMMUNICATIONS [10.1557/s43579-025-00776-z]. Detail

  • Cova, F., Morrocchi, M., Fasoli, M., Ciarrocchi, E., Pensavalle, J., Gallo, S., et al. (2025). Stem effect-free (Y,Yb)AG-based detectors for ultra-high dose rate electron beam dosimetry. SENSORS AND ACTUATORS. A, PHYSICAL, 390(16 August 2025) [10.1016/j.sna.2025.116539]. Detail

  • Fasoli, M., Vedda, A., Moretti, F., Bertrand, G., Buryi, M., Cova, F., et al. (2025). Conference Comments by the Editors. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, 72(7), 1975-1975 [10.1109/TNS.2025.3587506]. Detail

Research projects

Self-powered nano-scintillators for energy: mini-batterie nucleari integrabili
Year: 2021
Call: Fondazione UNIVERSITY FOR INNOVATION (U4I) Invito a presentare proposte all’INNOVATION PROJECT FUND 2021 (IPF 2021)
Grantors: UNIVERSITY FOR INNOVATION (U4I)

Awards

Awards

  • Premio Giovani Talenti dell'Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, con il Patrocinio dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2024
  • Early Career Distinguished Presenter of the MRS Fall Meeting, Materials Research Society, 2024
  • Falling walls lab, 2022

Editorial boards

  • Guest Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY. C, 2025
  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, 2024 - 2025

Research and teaching assignments

  • Ricercatore universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2023 - 2026
  • Professore a contratto - professore a contratto per il corso "Laboratorio di Fisica dei Materiali" (FIS/01), corso di laurea triennale in Scienza dei Materiali - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2021
  • Professore a contratto - professore a contratto per il corso “Esperimentazioni di Fisica I” (FIS/01), Corso di Laurea Triennale in Fisica - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2017
  • Attivita' di insegnamento - Lecture at the Summer School of the 17th International Conference on Scintillating Materials and their Applications (SCINT), Milano, Italy (2024)
    Title: Role of Defects in Scintillation - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2024

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program committee - Radiographic Imaging and Tomography Symposium (RadIT) Optica Imaging Congress(Stati Uniti), 2025
  • Program committee - European Materials Research Society (EMRS Spring 2025) Symposium "Novel materials and devices for photon and ionizing radiation detection"(Francia), 2025
  • Program committee - Luminescent Detectors and Transformers of Ionizing Radiation(Lettonia), 2024