Rafael Omar Ferragut
Associate Professor
Rafael Ferragut was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Politecnico di Milano. He received his Master and PhD in Physics (1995 and 1999) from Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Rafael’s current research focuses on applied studies in Materials Science and Antimatter fondamental properties. He studies porous materials, thin films (semiconductors, oxides, etc.) polymers and agehardenable alloys. He has been responsible of the Positron Laboratory at the research centre L-NESS in Como since 2010. He collaborates with an antimatter experiment at CERN (ASACUSA).
Responsible of the VEPAS lab.
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Research groups
VEPAS
Thesis
Positronium production in thin porous films to study antimatter at CERN