Current position:
- Associate Professor of Experimental Physics of condensed matter (S.C. 02/B1) since 03/2018.
Previous positions:
- 11/10- 02/18: Researcher Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for engineering, (SBAI). SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy
- 10/09- 09/10: Post Doc research fellowship Department of Energetics SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy
- 10/07- 09/09: Post Doc research fellowship Department of Energetics SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy
- 9/05- 8/07: Post Doc research Fellowship Department of Energetics SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy
- 9/03- 8/05: Post Doc research Fellowship Department of Energetics SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy
Research activities:
- Enhancement of second harmonic generation in photonic crystals, disordered structures and metallo-dielectric nanostructures.
- Theoretical and numerical models for spontaneous parametric down conversion in photonic crystals, optimization of generation of twin photons in periodic and quasi-periodic structures.
- Numerical models for simulation of linear and nonlinear propagation of optical pulses in dielectric and metallo/dielectric photonic crystals, nanostructures and nanoantennas.
- Second harmonic circular dichroism in plasmonic chiral nanostructures and metasurfaces.
- Theoretical and numerical study of near- and far-field thermal radiation from nanostructured objects.
- Numerical study and design of metallo-dielectric nanostructured devices and metamaterials for IR applications, selective absorption/emission, including the control of IR radiation polarization and/or temporal and spatial coherence.
Prizes and awards:
- 2018 - Habilitation to Full professorship - Experimental condensed matter physics (S.C. 02/B1) MIUR, Italian Ministry of University and Research
Visiting academic positions:
- 01/07/23 - 31/07/23 Visiting researcher Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb and CNRS, MONTPELLIER, France.
- 09/07/22 - 05/08/22 Visiting professor at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, KITP, University of California in Santa Barbara (USA) as participant to the program "Emerging Regimes and Implications of Quantum and Thermal Fluctuational Electrodynamics".
- 01/07/19 - 31/07/19 Visiting researcher Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb and CNRS, MONTPELLIER, France.
- 08/10-02/11 Visiting researcher Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb and CNRS, Montpellier, France.
- 10/99-07/02 Visiting scholar (during Ph.D.) Army Missile Command Weapons Sciences Directorate Redstone Arsenal, (AL). Supervisor: Dr. Michael Scalora.
Teaching activities and PhD supervision:
- 2018-present; Modern Physics for nanotechnology: Elements of Quantum Mechanics, Nanotechnology Engineering, Industrial and Civil engineering faculty at SAPIENZA University of Rome.(6 credits)
- 2011-present; Physics II (Electromagnetism and Optics), Industrial and Civil engineering faculty at SAPIENZA University of Rome.(9 credits)
- 2009-2011; Physics I (Mechanics and Thermodynamics), engineering faculty at SAPIENZA University of Rome.(9 credits)
- 2006-2009; Physics Laboratory, engineering faculty at SAPIENZA University of Rome.(6 credits)
- Supervisor and co-supervisor of several PhD students.
- Scientific Member of the Scientific Board of the Ph.D program "ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE FOR ENERGY AND INDUSTRY", Industrial and Civil engineering faculty at SAPIENZA University of Rome;
Editorial activity
- 2020 Chairman of the Topical meeting: "Thermal radiation and energy management" at the EOS annual meeting year 2020 Porto (PG) -online only, with Mauro Antezza and Maria Cristina Larciprete.
- 2021 Chairman of the Topical meeting: "Thermal radiation and energy management" at the EOS annual meeting year 2021 Rome (Italy), with Mauro Antezza and Maria Cristina Larciprete.
- 2022 Chairman of the Topical meeting: "Thermal radiation and energy management" at the EOS annual meeting year 2020 Porto (PG), with Mauro Antezza and Maria Cristina Larciprete.
- 2022 Co-Director of the 66 school of Quantum electronics at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, " The Foremost photonics 2022", with Costanza Toninelli and Pedro David Garcia, 10-14 October 2022.
Scientific Production (Scopus 02/24)
- Number of publications in peer-reviewed journals: 115
- Number of Conference papers: 105
- H-Index: 32;
- Citations: 3548;