Frederico Gil Alabarse

Since 2021 Alabarse is engaged as Beamline Scientist at the Elettra Synchrotron Facility in Trieste (Italy), where he gives continuity to his own research (Pressure induced transition in materials with nanoconfined guest molecules) at the high pressure diffraction beamline: XPRESS (post-doc 2017-2021). At Elettra, he provide support to external users as a local contact in different experiments under high pressure (HP) and as well, he takes part at the projects of technological development of the beamline, such as powder and single crystal diffraction under HP (up to megabar pressures) together with variable temperatures from few to several hundred Kelvins. Previously, he was researcher (2014-2017) in the field of neutron scattering measurements under extreme conditions at the Institut de Mineralogie, Physique des Materiaux et Cosmochimie (IMPMC) of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC/ Sorbonne Universités Paris), which he was recruited for by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS/ France). His research was focused on the development of advanced HP and high T neutron scattering methods in order to probe proton dynamics in simple hydrogenated systems under the extreme conditions of pressure and temperature, for which he obtained a technological development grant (DéfiTechno2016) from the CNRS (grant for the implementation of a pioneer induction heating system applied to large volume high pressure cells, Paris-Edinburgh cell). At the IMPMC/UPMC he has been encouraged to give continuity to his own research project (Dynamics of nanoconfined H2O under high pressure conditions) in which he has participated of elastic, quasi-elastic and inelastic neutron scattering experiments under HP and/or low temperatures (ILL, D4/ IN6/ IN16b/ IN1-LAGRANGE and ISIS, WISH). The research was funded by the international ANR (National Research Agency) Blanc program with collaboration of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL/ Grenoble), Neutrons for Science. He had post-doc (2012-2014) at the Advanced Infrared Line Exploited for Spectroscopy (AILES), beamline of Synchrotron SOLEIL. There he provide support to external users as a local contact in different experiments (at non-ambient conditions) and as well, he took part at the project of technological development of in situ infrared-THz spectroscopy mesures under high pressure with the AILES staff, since its beginning, which was mainly the reason for his recrutement. At SOLEIL, he has been encouraged to start his own research (Pressure induced transition in materials with nanoconfined fluids) using the new high pressure setup developed by AILES beamline as a tool, in which firsts results were successfully obtained by using the synchrotron light. His PhD (2009-2012), in Physical Chemistry of Materials at the Université de Montpellier 2, dealt with, as mentioned in the thesis title, Pressure Induced Amorphisation in Negative Thermal Expansion Aluminophosphates. In this research he combined experimental techniques as X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman spectroscopy in situ under HP using diamond anvil cells on powder and/or single crystal in order to study the effect of the pressure by analyzing the structural parameters and dynamic properties on open framework aluminophosphates, in which pair distribution function, nuclear magnetic resonance and X-ray absorption spectroscopy analysis were required.

graduation at Física from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2004), master's at Material and Metallurgical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2009) and doctorate at Chimie et Physicochimie des Matériaux from Institut Charles Gerhardt - Université Montpellier 2 (2012). Has experience in Physics, focusing on Physics, acting on the following subjects: medicina nuclear, radiofármaco, altas temperaturas, altas pressões and proteção radiológica.