Giansergio Menduni

Assistant Professor

email: giansergio.menduni@poliba.it

tel: +39 080 5442185

Physics Department, Room 215

Educational history:

2015	Bachelor degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering summa cum laude from Politecnico di Bari (IT)
2017	Master degree in Electronics Engineering summa cum laude from Politecnico di Bari (IT)
2021	PhD and Doctor Europaeus in Electrical and Information Engineering from Politecnico di Bari (IT)

International mobility:

01/03/2019 – 31/05/2019	PhD student at Thorlabs GmbH, Dachau (DE)
01/11/2019 – 30/11/2019	PhD student at Aramco Services Company, Houston (TX)
01/03/2020 – 31/05/2020	PhD student at Thorlabs GmbH, Bergkirchen (DE)

Work experience:

01/01/2022 – present	Assistant Professor at Politecnico of Bari (IT)
29/03/2021 – 31/12/2021	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Politecnico of Bari (IT)

Dr. Giansergio Menduni has performed research in fields related to the scientific sectors 09/E3 Electronics, 02/B1 Experimental Physics of Matter and 02/D1 Applied physics and in particular to the design of front-end amplifiers for piezoelectric transducers and realization of optical gas sensors. His research activity is thereby focused on the development of gas sensors based on Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy (QEPAS) and Light-Induced Thermoelastic Spectroscopy (LITES) on the signal conditioning of Quartz Tuning Forks transducers. In particular, several achievements have been obtained using the QEPAS and LITES techniques such as: the realization of the first commercial QEPAS sensor system to measure methane, ethane and propane purchased by Aramco Service Company; the realization of a QEPAS sensor system to measure methane isotopes and methane-based mixtures purchased by NTU university; the demonstration of the flat spectral response of quartz tuning forks employed as photodetector for infrared radiation.

Dr. Menduni is a reviewer for several international journals, such as: Optics Express, Infrared Physics and Technology, Photoacoustics, etc. Dr. Menduni is author or co-author of 17 publications edited on peer-reviewed international journals, 1 book chapter and 16 conference proceedings. He gave 4 talks presentations at international conferences. Dr. Menduni is Guest Editor of the Special Issue “New Prospects in Photothermal and Photoacoustic Techniques for Sensing and Imaging Applications“, of the international journal Sensors (MDPI). Dr. Menduni has a Hirsch factor of 9, related to 29 documents and 249 citations (SCOPUS).

List of publications on peer-reviewed international journals

Sgobba, F., Sampaolo, A., Patimisco, P., Giglio, M., Menduni, G., Ranieri, A.C., Hoelzl, C., Rossmadl, H., Brehm, C., Mackowiak, V., Assante, D., Ranieri, E., Spagnolo, V. Compact and portable quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy sensor for carbon monoxide environmental monitoring in urban areas (2022) Photoacoustics, 25, 100318, 10.1016/j.pacs.2021.100318
Luo, P., Harrist, J., Menduni, G., Mesdour, R., StMichel, N., Sampaolo, A. Simultaneous Detection of Methane, Ethane, and Propane by QEPAS Sensors for On-Site Hydrocarbon Characterization and Production Monitoring (2022) ACS Omega, 7 (4), pp. 3395-3406, 10.1021/acsomega.1c05645
Wei, T., Zifarelli, A., Dello Russo, S., Wu, H., Menduni, G., Patimisco, P., Sampaolo, A., Spagnolo, V., Dong, L. High and flat spectral responsivity of quartz tuning fork used as infrared photodetector in tunable diode laser spectroscopy (2021) Applied Physics Reviews, 10.1063/5.0062415
Olivieri, M., Zifarelli, A., Menduni, G., Di Gioia, M., Marzocca, C., Passaro, V.M.N., Sampaolo, A., Giglio, M., Spagnolo, V., Patimisco, P. Influence of air pressure on the resonance properties of a t-shaped quartz tuning fork coupled with resonator tubes (2021) Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 11 (17), 7974, 10.3390/app11177974;
Dello Russo, S., Sampaolo, A., Patimisco, P., Menduni, G., Giglio, M., Hoelzl, C., Passaro, V.M.N., Wu, H., Dong, L., Spagnolo, V. Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy exploiting low-frequency tuning forks as a tool to measure the vibrational relaxation rate in gas species (2021) Photoacoustics, 21, 100227, 10.1016/j.pacs.2020.100227;
De Carlo, M., Menduni, G., Sampaolo, A., De Leonardis, F., Spagnolo, V., Passaro, V.M.N. Modeling and Design of a Semi-Integrated QEPAS Sensor (2021) Journal of Lightwave Technology, 39 (2), 9222489, pp. 646-653, 10.1109/JLT.2020.3030682;
Menduni, G., Sgobba, F., Russo, S.D., Ranieri, A.C., Sampaolo, A., Patimisco, P., Giglio, M., Passaro, V.M.N., Csutak, S., Assante, D., Ranieri, E., Geoffrion, E., Spagnolo, V. Fiber-coupled quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy system for methane and ethane monitoring in the near-infrared spectral range (2020) Molecules, 25 (23), 5607, 10.3390/molecules25235607;
Sampaolo, A., Menduni, G., Patimisco, P., Giglio, M., Passaro, V.M.N., Dong, L., Wu, H., Tittel, F.K., Spagnolo, V. Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy for hydrocarbon trace gas detection and petroleum exploration (2020) Fuel, 277, 118118, 10.1016/j.fuel.2020.118118
Zifarelli, A., Giglio, M., Menduni, G., Sampaolo, A., Patimisco, P., Passaro, V.M.N., Wu, H., Dong, L., Spagnolo, V. Partial Least-Squares Regression as a Tool to Retrieve Gas Concentrations in Mixtures Detected Using Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy (2020) Analytical Chemistry, 92 (16), pp. 11035-11043, 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c00075
Elefante, A., Menduni, G., Rossmadl, H., Mackowiak, V., Giglio, M., Sampaolo, A., Patimisco, P., Passaro, V.M.N., Spagnolo, V. Environmental monitoring of methane with quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy exploiting an electronic hygrometer to compensate the H2O influence on the sensor signal (2020) Sensors (Switzerland), 20 (10), 2935, 10.3390/s20102935
Sgobba, F., Menduni, G., Russo, S.D., Sampaolo, A., Patimisco, P., Giglio, M., Ranieri, E., Passaro, V.M.N., Tittel, F.K., Spagnolo, V. Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic detection of ethane in the near-IR exploiting a highly performant spectrophone (2020) Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 10 (7), 2447, 10.3390/app10072447
Menduni, G., Sampaolo, A., Patimisco, P., giglio, M., Russo, S.D., Zifarelli, A., Elefante, A., Wieczorek, P.Z., Starecki, T., Passaro, V.M.N., Tittel, F.K., Spagnolo, V. Front-end amplifiers for tuning forks in quartz enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (2020) Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 10 (8), 2947, 10.3390/APP10082947
Giglio, M., Zifarelli, A., Sampaolo, A., Menduni, G., Elefante, A., Blanchard, R., Pfluegl, C., Witinski, M.F., Vakhshoori, D., Wu, H., Passaro, V.M.N., Patimisco, P., Tittel, F.K., Dong, L., Spagnolo, V. Broadband detection of methane and nitrous oxide using a distributed-feedback quantum cascade laser array and quartz-enhanced photoacoustic sensing (2020) Photoacoustics, 17, 100159, 10.1016/j.pacs.2019.100159
Elefante, A., Giglio, M., Sampaolo, A., Menduni, G., Patimisco, P., Passaro, V.M.N., Wu, H., Rossmadl, H., Mackowiak, V., Cable, A., Tittel, F.K., Dong, L., Spagnolo, V. Dual-Gas Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Sensor for Simultaneous Detection of Methane/Nitrous Oxide and Water Vapor (2019) Analytical Chemistry, 91 (20), pp. 12866-12873, 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b02709
Dello Russo, S., Giglio, M., Sampaolo, A., Patimisco, P., Menduni, G., Wu, H., Dong, L., Passaro, V.M.N., Spagnolo, V. Acoustic coupling between resonator tubes in quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectrophones employing a large prong spacing tuning fork (2019) Sensors (Switzerland), 19 (19), 4109, 10.3390/s19194109
Sampaolo, A., Csutak, S., Patimisco, P., Giglio, M., Menduni, G., Passaro, V.M.N., Tittel, F.K., Deffenbaugh, M., Spagnolo, V. Methane, ethane and propane detection using a compact quartz enhanced photoacoustic sensor and a single interband cascade laser (2019) Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 282, pp. 952-960, 10.1016/j.snb.2018.11.132
Giglio, M., Menduni, G., Patimisco, P., Sampaolo, A., Elefante, A., Passaro, V.M.N., Spagnolo, V. Damping Mechanisms of Piezoelectric Quartz Tuning Forks Employed in Photoacoustic Spectroscopy for Trace Gas Sensing (2019) Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science, 216 (3), 1800552, 10.1002/pssa.201800552

Book Chapter

Giglio, M., Zifarelli, A., Patimisco, P., Sampaolo, A., Menduni, G., Elefante, A., Blanchard, R., Pfluegl, C., Witinski, M.F., Vakhshoori, D., Tittel, F.K., Spagnolo, V. Broadband gas QEPAS detection exploiting a monolithic DFB-QCL array (2021) NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics, pp. 61-70, 10.1007/978-94-024-2082-1_5

Proceedings of Conference

Menduni, G., Zifarelli, A., Di Gioia, M., Giglio, M., Patimisco, P., Sampaolo, A., Marzocca, C., Passaro, V. M.N., Spagnolo, V. Quartz enhanced photoacoustic spectrometer for natural gas composition analysis (2022) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 12008, 120080M, 10.1117/12.2608868
Elefante, A., Brehm, C., Rossmadl, H., Mackoviak, V., Menduni, G., Di Gioia, M., Giglio, M., Patimisco, P., Sampaolo, A., Spagnolo, V. A novel double-tuning fork acoustic detection module for photoacoustic wide range sensing (2022) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 12008, 120080N, 10.1117/12.2608905
Zifarelli, A., Dello Russo, S., Menduni, G., Giglio, M., Patimisco, P., Sampaolo, A., Spagnolo, V. Compact sensor for wide concentration range methane and ethane detection employing quartz tuning fork as photodetector in tunable diode laser spectroscopy (2022) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 12009, 120090J, 10.1117/12.2608338
Patimisco, P., Kniazeva, E., Zifarelli, A., Sampaolo, A., Giglio, M., Menduni, G., Manassero, F., Dinuccio, E., Provolo, G., Spagnolo, V. Simultaneous measurement of N₂O, CH₄, and NH₃ with a compact quartz-enhanced photoacoustic sensor for monitoring agricultural activities (2022) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 12009, 120090G, 10.1117/12.2607087
Giglio, M., Olivieri, M., Sukhinets, A., Di Gioia, M., Elefante, A., Menduni, G., Zifarelli, A., Patimisco, P., Sampaolo, A., Spagnolo, V. Measurement of the methane isotopologues relaxation rate exploiting quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (2022) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 12009, 120090H, 10.1117/12.2608851
Giglio, M., Sampaolo, A., Patimisco, P., Pinto, D., Menduni, G., Elefante, A., Dello Russo, S., Sgobba, F., Zifarelli, A., Tittel, F.K., Spagnolo, V. Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy of methane isotopologues (2021) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 11693, 116930I, 10.1117/12.2578149
Passaro, V.M.N., De Carlo, M., De Leonardis, F., Menduni, G., Lamberti, L., Perri, A.G. Parity-time and anti-parity-time-symmetry integrated optical gyroscopes: A perspective for high performance devices (2020) International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, 2020-July, 9203305, 10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203305
Sgobba, F., Menduni, G., Sampaolo, A., Patimisco, P., Giglio, M., Elefante, A., Passaro, V., Tittel, F.K., Spagnolo, V. Fiber-coupled quartz-enhanced photoacoustic sensor for methane and ethane trace detection (2020) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 11288, 112882D, 10.1117/12.2545782
Dello Russo, S., Patimisco, P., Sampaolo, A., Giglio, M., Menduni, G., Elefante, A., Passaro, V., Tittel, F.K., Spagnolo, V. Measurement of non-radiative gas molecules relaxation rates by using quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (2020) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 11288, 112882C, 10.1117/12.2545774
Zifarelli, A., Patimisco, P., Sampaolo, A., Giglio, M., Menduni, G., Elefante, A., Passaro, V., Tittel, F.K., Spagnolo, V. Partial least squares regression as novel tool for gas mixtures analysis in quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (2020) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 11288, 112882B, 10.1117/12.2545766
Sampaolo, A., Patimisco, P., Giglio, M., Menduni, G., Elefante, A., Passaro, V., Tittel, F.K., Spagnolo, V. Simultaneous dual gas QEPAS sensing of water and methane/nitrous oxide (2019) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 10926, 109262L, 10.1117/12.2507922
Menduni, G., Sampaolo, A., Csutak, S., Patimisco, P., Giglio, M., Elefante, A., Passaro, V., Tittel, F.K., Deffenbaugh, M., Spagnolo, V. Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic sensors for detection of multiple hydrocarbon and methane isotopes (2019) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 10926, 109260C, 10.1117/12.2507881
Elefante, A., Patimisco, P., Sampaolo, A., Giglio, M., Menduni, G., Rossmadl, H., Mackowiak, V., Passaro, V., Gross, B., Cable, A., Tittel, F.K., Spagnolo, V. Octupole electrode pattern for tuning forks vibrating at the first overtone mode in quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (2019) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 10926, 109262K, 10.1117/12.2507909
Patimisco, P., Sampaolo, A., Giglio, M., Dello Russo, S., Elefante, A., Menduni, G., Passaro, V., Rossmadl, H., Mackowiak, V., Gross, B., Cable, A., Tittel, F.K., Spagnolo, V. New generation of tuning forks for quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (2019) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 10926, 109260D, 10.1117/12.2507932
Giglio, M., Patimisco, P., Sampaolo, A., Zifarelli, A., Menduni, G., Elefante, A., Blanchard, R., Pfluegl, C., Witinski, M.F., Vakhshoori, D., Passaro, V., Tittel, F.K., Spagnolo, V. Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy employing a distributed feedback-quantum cascade laser array for nitrous oxide and methane broadband detection (2019) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 10939, 109391Q, 10.1117/12.2507926
Sampaolo, A., Csutak, S., Patimisco, P., Giglio, M., Menduni, G., Passaro, V., Tittel, F.K., Deffenbaugh, M., Spagnolo, V. Interband cascade laser based quartz-enhanced photoacoustic sensor for multiple hydrocarbons detection (2018) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 10540, 105400C, 10.1117/12.2288336

Talks presentations at conferences

Menduni, G., Zifarelli, A., Di Gioia, M., Giglio, M., Patimisco, P., Sampaolo, A., Marzocca, C., Passaro, V. M.N., Spagnolo, V. Quartz enhanced photoacoustic spectrometer for natural gas composition analysis (2022) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 12008, 120080M, 10.1117/12.2608868
De Carlo, M., Menduni, G., De Leonardis, F., Passaro, V. Parity time symmetric photonic gyroscopes, SIE 2018, Napoli, Italy
De Carlo, M., De Leonardis, F., Menduni, G., Passaro, V. Optomechanical Forces in SiGeSn Coupled Optical Cavities Operating in Mid IR, D-Photon 2018, Bari, Italy
Menduni, G., Sampaolo, A., Csutak, S., Patimisco, P., Giglio, M., Elefante, A., Passaro, V., Tittel, F.K., Deffenbaugh, M., Spagnolo, V. Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic sensors for detection of multiple hydrocarbon and methane isotopes, SPIE Photonics West 2019, San Francisco, CA