Paolo Giuseppe Radaelli,

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(born 11 October 1961) is an Italian

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and academic. He is the Dr Lee's Professor of Experimental Philosophy (Physics) at the

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and a Professorial Fellow of

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Biography

Radaelli obtained a Laurea degree ''Summa cum Laude'' in 1986 from

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(his thesis supervisor was Pino Marchesini). As part of the mandatory Italian National Service, he served for one year in the 28th Infantry Battalion "Pavia

as a drill instructor, leaving with the rank of corporal major. Between 1988 and 1989, he worked as a research associate at the ITM institute of the

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in the field of

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. In 1989, he was awarded a travel scholarship by Pirelli Cavi e Sistemi and moved to the

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(Chicago) where he later completed a PhD under the academic supervision of Carlo Segre, and working in close collaboration with James D. Jorgensen and David Hinks at

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. After a post-doc in Jorgensen's group between 1992 and 1993, he moved to Grenoble, first as a post-doc with Massimo Marezio at the Laboratories de Cristallographie of the

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, then as a scientist at the

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. In 1998, he became Instrument Scientists and later Crystallography Group Leader at the

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at the

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in Didcot, England. Since 2008, he is the

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(Physics) at the

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, and he is also a Professorial Fellow of

. In 2017 he was appointed a Knight of the

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