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Emile Knystautas Ph.D.

Position	Department / Business Unit
Scientific Director
Institution	Disciplines
C.I.V.E.N. (Coordinamento Interuniversitario Veneto per le Nanotecnologie)	Physics
City	State / Provence
Venice
Country	Website
Italy	link
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Dr. Knystautas is Scientific Director, CIVEN, a new nanotechnology research centre based in Venice, Italy. His more recent activities also dealt with the creation, modification and characterisation of novel materials using ion irradiation

Emile Knystautas received his B.Sc. degree in Physics from the Université de Montréal, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Atomic Physics from the University of Connecticut.  Professeur titulaire in the Physics Department (and Deputy Chairman '82- '86) at Université Laval, Québec, (and he also worked ('78 -'79) as a guest worker, and later consultant, at the Atomic and Plasma Radiation Division of the National Bureau of Standards (now N.I.S.T. - National Institute of Standards and Technology) in Washington.
A firm believer in changing jobs every 35 years, since Dec. 2004 he is Scientific Director of a new nanotechnology research centre in Venice, C.I.V.E.N. (Coordinamento Interuniversitario Veneto per le Nanotecnologie), as well as of its commercial arm, Nanofab s.c.a.r.l.

Although most of Dr. Knystautas' career has been devoted to fundamental atomic physics studies, especially those dealing with rather exotic excited states in highly charged ions, his recent projects have included:

• Producing quasicrystals and shape-memory alloys in thin-film form;
  
• Making multilayer mirrors for soft X-rays;
  
• High-voltage poling of silica for second-harmonic generation;
  
• Production of non-linear optical effects in chalcogenide and other glasses using ion-beam methods; and
  
• The use of liquid-crystal-filled nanopores in polymer films for potential photonics applications. 
  

During his career, he has supervised many graduate students, published numerous articles and edited several tomes, the latest being "Engineering Thin Films and Nanostructures using Ion Beams".

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