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Rafael Ferragut was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Politecnico di Milano. He received his Master and PhD in Physics (1995 and 1999) from Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Rafael’s current research focuses on applied studies in Materials Science and Antimatter properties. He studies porous materials, thin films (hybrid solar cells, semiconductors, oxides, etc.) and agehardenable alloys. He has been responsible of the Positron Laboratory at the research centre L-NESS in Como since 2010. He collaborates with the antimatter experiment ASACUSA that takes place at CERN. (brief CV)