Phd in INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT)

Name Antonio d’Alessandro

Job Title Associate Professor

Researcher unique identifier(s)  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6075-6975

Webpage https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/antoniodalessandro_eng/

 

Academic Position 

2014 – today Qualified as Full Professor since 4^th February 2014 

2002-today Associate professor at Sapienza University of Rome

1994 - 2002 Assistant Professor at Sapienza University of Rome.

 

Education and Post-Doctoral Activity

1989, Laurea cum laude in Electronics Engineering at University of Bari.

1993, PhD in Electronics Engineering

1991 - 1992, Visiting researcher with Bell Communication Research, New Jersey USA.

1992 - 1994, Post-doctoral Member of Technical Staff with Bell Communication Research.

 

Appointments in international institutions

1994    Visiting Researcher at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio

1995    Visiting Researcher at Univ. of Stüttgart, Institute für Netzwerk und Systemtheorie, Germany 

1996    Visiting Researcher Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Microelectronics and Nanoscience, Goteborg, Sweden

1999    Visiting Researcher Cambridge University, Department of Engineering, and Kings College, Cambridge, UK

2000    Associate Member of CNR - IMM (Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems)

 

 

Academic appointments

2019 - Vice Dean of the Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics (I3S)

2019 - Academic Responsible for international student mobility of the I3S Faculty

2019 - President of the Teaching Area in Electronics Engineering of Sapienza University

2018 - today, Director of CNIS, Center of Nanotechnologies applied to Engineering of Sapienza  

and Scientific responsible of Sapienza Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Laboratory - SNN Lab

2002 - today, Scientific responsible of the Optoelectronics Laboratory of Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications.

2015 – 2019 Academic Responsible for international student mobility for Electronics Engineering and Nanotechnology teaching area programs

2017 - Responsible of Dual Degree Program for the Master Degree of Electronics Engineering of Sapienza and Electrical and Computer Engineering of Georgia Tech.

 

Teaching activity

1998 - Photonics  (taught in English)

2001 - Optoelectronics  (taught in English)

2002 - Electronics

2015 - Electronics and Optical Sensors

 

Society activity and professional award

2010 - today, President of the Italian Liquid Crystal Society since 2010.

2018 - today, Vice-President of IEEE Photonics Society - Italy Chapter.

2010 - today, Member of the International Board of Directors of the International Liquid Crystal Society.

2006 - today, Senior Member of IEEE 

2018 - today, Senior Member of Optical Society of America (OSA).

2018 - today, OSA Traveling Lecturer 

 

 

PhD and Post-Doc Supervision

He has been scientific supervisor of more than 10 PhD students and of several Post-Doc researchers

in the field of Photonic devices based on organic materials for optical communications and sensing.

 

Editorial activity 

2015 - today Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal and OSA Optics Express

Co-editor a special issue of Optics Express on “Liquid Crystals beyond Displays”, published in May 2019. 

Co-editor of several special issues of Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals of Taylor and Francis. 

 

Invited talks

He gave more than 35 invited talks at International Conferences and Schools. 

 

Organization of Conferences and Participation to Scientific Committee

Scientific and Organization Chair of several international conferences and International Schools. 

Among them it is worth to mention:

-       Member of the Scientific Committee of Joint meetings between Japanese Liquid Crystal Society and Italian liquid Crystal Society, since 2002.

-       Member of the Scientific Committee of Workshop on Liquid Crystal for Photonics, since 2006.

-       Director of the 2nd School of the Italian Liquid Crystal Society (SICL)18th Course of International School of Liquid Crystals held in Erice (Italy) from the 3rd to the 10th of July, 2011.

-       Chairman of the scientific committee of the 10th Italian Liquid Crystal Society Meeting, Rome 21-23 June 2012.

-       Chairman of the scientific committee of the 1st Italian Brazilian workshop on Liquid Crystals, Erice Aug. 26-30, 2012.

-       Chairman of the 5th International Workshop on Liquid Crystal for Photonics, Erice, Sept. 2-7 2014.

-       Director, 22nd Course of the International School of Liquid Crystals in collaboration with SICL and IEEE Photonic Society Italy Chapter on “Photonics integration: materials, properties, technologies and devices”, Erice, September 25^th- October 1^st, 2016.

-       Member of the Scientific and of the Organization Committee of PIERS 2019 Rome, June 2019.

 

Main research fields of interest 

Photonics devices based on liquid crystals and polymers for sensing and optical communications

Guided wave photonic devices 

Nonlinear optical devices

Nanophotonics 

 

Project referee activity

-       Evaluation of research projects on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Education, 

-       University and Research and the Evaluation of research products (VQR 2004-2010 and VQR 2011-2014) on behalf of ANVUR.

-       Research Projects for Foundation for Polish Science, 

-       FIT-IT for Research Innovation Technology and Information Technology of Austrian Government, 

-       Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT),

-       Horizon 2020 projects as remote evluator for Research Innovation Action (RIA) for Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Programme.

 

Scientific responsible of several Italian and European Projects.