Laboratory of physical chemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

E-mail: carine.manca AT ir.phys.chem.ethz.ch

French and Swiss

38, married, one child

1996-1997

Licence Physico-Chimie Moléculaire Organique (3rd year diploma in molecular organic physical chemistry), University of Provence, Marseille, France (first in class).

1997-1998

Maîtrise Physico-Chimie Moléculaire Organique (B.Sc. in molecular organic physical chemistry), University of Provence, Marseille, France (first in class, grant for excellent studies).

1998-1999

Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies Physico-Chimie Moléculaire Organique (M.Sc. in molecular organic physical chemistry), University of Provence, Marseille, France (first in class). Diploma : "Irradiations sélectives du nitrométhane en phase condensée et en matrices cryogéniques : détermination des formes aci et aci ion" (Selective irradiations of nitromethane in condesed phase and trapped in cryogenic matrices. Observation of the aci and aci ion forms).

1999–2002

Ph.D. thesis "Physisorption sur des surfaces de glace: étude par couplage entre la manométrie isotherme d'adsorption et la spectroscopie IRTF" (Physisorption on ice surfaces: coupling adsorption isotherm manometry and FTIR spectroscopy), Laboratory PIIM, University of Provence, Marseille, France (supervisor: Prof. Pascale Roubin).

2002-2004

Post-doctoral position at the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland (group of Prof Samuel Leutwyler).

2004-2010

Assistant at the laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (group of Prof. Martin Quack).

Since 2010

Senior assistant (Oberassistentin) at the laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (group of Prof. Martin Quack).