Alessandro Sfondrini

Students and teaching

Former students

I had the pleasure to supervise several extraordinarily gifted and dedicated students, among whom (more or less in chronological order)

• Alessandro Rezzi, BSc at Padova University
• Alessio Miscioscia, MSc at Padova University, now at DESY hamburg
• Franscesco Gentile, MSc at Padova University, now at SISSA Trieste
• Andrea Dei, PhD at Zurich ETH Zurich, now at Harvard University
• Enrico Marchetto, MSc at Padova University, now at Oxford University
• Zhou Yang, MSc at ETH Zurich, now at Cornell University
• Harriett Walsh, MSc at ETH Zurich, now at ENS Lyon
• Theresa Abl, MSc at ETH Zurich, now at Durham University
• Kevin Thieme, MSc at ETH Zurich, now at Zurich University

Undergraduate and graduate courses

In the coming year I will be teaching the following courses:

• Physics I, Information engineering, University of Padova
• Exactly-solvable models, Scuola Galileiana Honours Course, University of Padova

I have recently taught the following courses

• Physics I, Information engineering, University of Padova
• Conformal field theory and bootstrap, PhD in Physics, University of Padova (with Xi Yin, Harvard University)
• Laboratory of Physics: spectroscopy, BSc in Physics, University of Padova (with Alberto Garfagnini and Marcello Lunardon, University of Padova).

Innovative laboratory teaching

In the context of the course Laboratory of Physics, I have obtained an innovative teaching grant (together with Barbara Arfè, Alberto Garfagnini and Marcello Lunardon) with the purpose of adapting the electronics and spectroscopy laboratory to the pandemic. This includes the creation of take-home electronics kits, the automation of several spectroscopy experiments for remote access, and a detailed study of the impact of these changes on the students' performance and attitudes towards experimental physics. Among other things, we have translated the ECLASS questionnaire (The Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey for Experimental Physics) developed by H. J. Lewandowski in Italian (soon to be published, please contact me if you are interested in early access).