Sakura Pascarelli is an Italian physicist and the scientific director at the

European XFEL The European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (European XFEL) is an X-ray research laser facility commissioned during 2017. The first laser pulses were produced in May 2017 and the facility started user operation in September 2017. The interna ...

. Her research focuses on the study on matter at extreme conditions of pressure, temperature and magnetic fields, in particular using

X-ray absorption spectroscopy X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a widely used technique for determining the local geometric and/or electronic structure of matter. The experiment is usually performed at synchrotron radiation facilities, which provide intense and tunabl ...

(XAS) and X-ray Magnetic Linear and Circular Dichroism (XMCD).

Early life and education

Pascarelli was born in Japan. She received a Laurea in Physics from

La Sapienza The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a public research university located in Rome, Ita ...

(Rome, Italy) and a PhD degree in Physics at the

Joseph Fourier University Joseph Fourier University (UJF, french: Université Joseph Fourier, also known as Grenoble I) was a French university situated in the city of Grenoble and focused on the fields of sciences, technologies and health. It is now part of the Universi ...

(Grenoble, France). She is an accomplished swimmer.

Research and career

Pascarelli was the head of the Matter at Extremes Group within the Experiment Division of the

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) is a joint research facility situated in Grenoble, France, supported by 22 countries (13 member countries: France, Germany, Italy, the UK, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, ...

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, France, and in charge of the X-ray absorption spectroscopy beamlines. She joined the

in Hamburg, Germany, as scientific director. Pascarelli is a member of the scientific advisory committee of SLAC's

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (formerly Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory), a division of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is operated by Stanford University for the Department of Energy. SSRL is a National User F ...

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