1. Researcher and engineer in physics with specialties
Brownian motion, photonic force microscopy, second-harmonic generation, and upconversion photoluminescence
Flavio Maurizio Mor
Chemin du Joran 2a, 1260 Nyon June 23rd, 1982 in Geneva, Switzerland
+41 (0) 76 389 47 47 Married
fmor82@gmail.com Swiss, Italian
Although I obtained my diploma of engineer HES in applied physics, I had a strong
drive for basic science and I enrolled to a gateway class to pass to EPFL for studying
physics (BSc, MSc and PhD). I am looking for new challenges in R&D or scientific
consulting in the field of nano or biophotonics/optics/fluid physics.
Education
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), PhD in Physics 2009-2013
Supervisors: Prof. László Forró, Dr. Sylvia Jeney
Title: Developing luminescent Brownian probes for near-field investigations of the intracellular
environment
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), MSc in Physics 2007-2009
Supervisor: Dr. Sylvia Jeney
Title: Probing hydrodynamic effects and surface forces close to a wall with a Brownian sphere
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), BSc in Physics 2005-2007
• School of Engineers of Geneva (EIG), HES, Engineer HES in applied Physics 2001-2004
Supervisor: Maurizio Tognolini
Title: Automatic identification of an artificial cell membrane
• School of Engineers of Geneva (EIG), EET, Technical maturity in mechanics-electricity 1998-2001
Work experience
Researcher assistant:
• Post-doctoral researcher, management of different projects in photonics, EPFL, Lausanne 2013-2014
• PhD, photonic force microscopy and nonlinear optical effects, EPFL, Lausanne 2009-2013
Assistant:
• Physics for 1st year students in Medicine, University of Lausanne, UNIL 2012-2013
• Practical class for 3rd year students in Physics, EPFL, Lausanne 2009-2012
• Signal processing for 3rd year students in Physics, EIG, Genève March to June 2006
Internships:
• Modeling and identification of an artificial cell membrane, EIG, Genève March to August 2005
• Weather station, EIG, Genève August 2003
• Maturity project of EIG, CERN, Genève March to June 2003
Technician:
• Bracelet, polishing, Rolex SA, Genève August 1999 and 2000, September 2001
Languages
• French, Italian: mother tongue
• English: B2 level
• German: basic
Technical skills
• Systems: Mac OS X, Windows, Linux
• Software: Microsoft office, iWork, Pro Engineer, Orcad-PSpice, Photoshop, ImageJ
• Programming: Matlab, Simulink, Comsol multiphysics, Maple, Mathematica, Labview, Latex, C
• Microscopy: photonic force/two photon microscopy, scanning/transmission electron microscopy
Awards
• Selected by EPFL for the best PhD thesis work 2013
• EPFL price for an excellent assistant work with the BSc students 2011
• Acqiris SA price for a remarkable diploma work in electronic and signal processing 2005
Interests
Sport, diving, traveling, astronomy, photography

2. Publications
• Sylvia Jeney, Flavio M. Mor, Roland Köszali, László Forró and Vincent T. Moy, Monitoring ligand-receptor
interactions by photonic force microscopy, Nanotechnology 21, 1 (2010)
• Thomas Franosch, Matthias Grimm, Maxim Belushkin, Flavio M. Mor, Giuseppe Foffi, László Forró
and Sylvia Jeney, Resonances arising from hydrodynamic memory in Brownian motion, Nature 478,
85 (2011)
• Pablo Domínguez-García, Flavio M. Mor, László Forró and Sylvia Jeney, Exploiting the color of
Brownian motion for high-frequency microrheology of Newtonian fluids, Proc. of SPIE 8810, 881015
(2013)
• Mario Tonin, Flavio M. Mor, Nicolas Descharmes, Ulagalandha Dharanipathi, László Forró, Sylvia
Jeney and Romuald Houdré, Resonant Optical Trapping in Hollow Photonic Crystal Cavities, Proc. of
SPIE (2014)
• Flavio M. Mor, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, László Forró and Sylvia Jeney, Upconversion Particle as a Local
Luminescent Brownian Probe: A Photonic Force Microscopy Study, ACS Photonics, accepted
• Adam Butykai, Flavio M. Mor, László Forró, Richard Gaal and Sylvia Jeney, Calibration of optical
tweezers with non-spherical probes via high-resolution detection of Brownian motion, Comp. Phys.
Com., submitted
• Flavio M. Mor, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Arnaud Magrez, László Forró and Sylvia Jeney, Single
potassium niobate nano/micro-sized particles as local luminescent Brownian probe, in preperation
• Flavio M. Mor, Niti Nipun Sharma, László Forró and Sylvia Jeney, Second-harmonic generation in
optically trapped clusters of gold nanoparticles, in preperation
• Flavio M. Mor, Massimo Spina, László Forró, Sylvia Jeney and Endre Horvath, Nonlinear optical
properties of lead-methylammonium iodide structures, in preperation
Conferences
• Single Nanoparticle as Localized Light Source, Flavio M. Mor, Janos Vörös, László Forró and Sylvia
Jeney, NCCBI Meeting, November 2010, talk
• Use of a Single Nanoparticle as Localized Light Source, Flavio M. Mor, Janos Vörös, László Forró
and Sylvia Jeney, SPS OePG Meeting, June 2011, talk
• Use of a Single Nanoparticle as Localized Light Source, Flavio M. Mor, Arnaud Magrez, Rita
Smajda, Janos Vörös, László Forró and Sylvia Jeney, NCCBI Meeting, August 2011, poster
• Use of a Single Nanoparticle as Localized Light Source, Flavio M. Mor, Arnaud Magrez, Rita
Smajda, Janos Vörös, László Forró and Sylvia Jeney, SSD Workshop February, 2012, poster
• Upconversion Nanocrystals as Tunable and Manipulable Multicolor Light Sources, Flavio M. Mor,
László Forró and Sylvia Jeney, From SolidState To BioPhysics VI, June 2012, invited talk
• Upconversion microcrystals (UCM) as manipulable and tunable multicolor light sources, Flavio M.
Mor, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Janos Vörös, László Forró and Sylvia Jeney, NCCBI Meeting, February
2013, poster
• Resonant Optical Trapping in Hollow Photonic Crystal Cavities, Mario Tonin, Flavio M. Mor, Nicolas
Descharmes, Ulagalandha Dharanipathi, László Forró, Sylvia Jeney and Romuald Houdré, PECS-XI
International Symposium, May 2014, poster
• Optical trapping in resonant photonic crystal hollow: Fabrication and trapping dynamics, Mario Tonin,
Flavio M. Mor, László Forró, Sylvia Jeney and Romuald Houdré, EPFL Photonics Day 2014,
November 2014, poster