Email address: valentina.roberti@studenti.unipd.it
Location: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia G. Galilei, Via Marzolo 8, Torre 4° piano
Office phone number: +39 049 827 7246
PhD topic: James Clerk Maxwell’s and Hermann von Helmholtz’s theory of colour
PhD supervisor: Prof. Giulio Peruzzi

Education:

Oct. 2015 – present: PhD Student, Università degli Studi di Padova.

Mar. 2014: Graduate degree in Physics, 110/110 cum laude, at the Università degli Studi di Bologna, with the thesis “Investigation of dangling bonds in Al2O3 passivated Si surface using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR)”. Supervisors: Prof. Anna Cavallini, Dott. Saskia Kühnhold.                                       

Dec. 2011: Bachelor degree in Physics, 109/110, at the Università degli Studi di Bologna, with the thesis: “Study of deep-level and shallow-level defects in CdTe detectors using PICTS (Photoinduced current transient spectroscopy)”. Supervisor: Prof. Anna Cavallini.

Conferences and Workshops:

• 1st European Regional IHPST Conference, Science as Culture in the European Context: Historical, Philosophical, and Educational Perspectives. August 22-25, 2016, Flensburg, Germany, Europa-Universität Flensburg.
Presentation title: Exposing Colour: Newton’s Theory through Maxwell’s Lens

• SIF 102° National Congress, September 26-30, 2016, Padova.

Presentation title: Exposing Colour: Newton’s Theory through Maxwell’s Lens
Authors: Peruzzi G., Roberti V.

• Joint Annual Meeting of the Swiss Physical Society Austrian Physical Society in cooperation with CHIPP and Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. August 21-25, 2017, CERN & CICG, Genève.

• SIF 103° National Congress, September 11-15, 2017, Trento

Presentation titles:

Svelare gli strumenti scientifici: Dal museo al grande pubblico - Esperienza di stage al Museo di Storia della Fisica dell'Università di Padova
Authors: Marcon F., Talas S., Nicchio G., Roberti V.

Lo spazio del colore tra geometria e fisica della percezione
Authors: Peruzzi G., Roberti V.

• Biographies in the History of Physics: Actors, Objects, and Institutions. A Workshop for Young Academics from the German Physical Society’s Section for History of Physics, supported by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation, May 22-25, 2018, Physics Center, Bad Honnef, Germany.
Presentation title: The colour top and the distinction between additive and subtractive colour mixing

Articles in publication:

• The colour top and the distinction between additive and subtractive colour mixing
Authors: Peruzzi G., Roberti V.

• Exposing Colour: Newton’s Theory through Maxwell’s Lens (Publication in Flensburg University Press)
Authors: Peruzzi G., Roberti V.