Marta De Luca is Associate Professor in the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). She has recently received an ERC starting grant on the topic of photonic circuits with nanowires. She is currently building a new lab and a new research group (NANO-SPECTROSCOPY group). She is expert in advanced optical spectroscopy of low-dimensional materials, with special focus on nanowires and 2D materials. In the previous 3 years, she has been research scientist in the Physics Department of the University of Basel (Switzerland) under an Ambizione grant awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Previously, she was post-doc in the Nano-phononics group in the University of Basel. M. De Luca obtained the PhD in Materials Science in Sapienza University in December 2014.
M. De Luca has been awarded with the Laura Bassi prize by the Italian Society of Physics for being the best female physicist in 2021 and with the Rita Levi Montalcini grant allowing selected Italian scientists to set up a new research group in an Italian University.