Nonlinear, Tunable and Light-Emitting All-Dielectric Metasurfaces

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Isabelle Staude studied physics at the University of Konstanz, and subsequently received her Ph.D. degree from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, in 2011. For her postdoc, she moved to the Nonlinear Physics Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, where she coordinated the experimental activities on optical nanoantennas and served the nanoplasmonics stream in the Australian Centre of Excellence CUDOS as deputy project leader. She returned to Germany in mid-2015 to establish a junior research group on functional photonic nanostructures at the Institute of Applied Physics and the Abbe Center of Photonics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. She received an Emmy-Noether Grant from the German research Foundation as well as the Hertha Sponer Prize 2017 from the German Physical Society. In November 2017, she became a junior professor at the same institution. She was promoted to a full professor in April 2020.

 

 

Optical Tweezers on Nanostructures

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Onofrio M. Maragò studied Physics at the University of Pisa (Italy) working for his Laurea (Master) thesis on laser cooling and trapping of atoms (supervisor Prof. E. Arimondo). He received his DPhil in 2001 at the University of Oxford (UK), while working at the Clarendon Laboratory on Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of ultra-cold atoms (supervisor Prof. C. J. Foot). During his DPhil studies he was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship (3 years) and a Junior Research Fellowship from Linacre College (Oxford). After a brief post-doc at Universitat Konstanz (Germany) in the group of Prof. M. Oberthaler, he was appointed in 2002 a permanent position as Researcher at the Istituto per I Processi Chimico-Fisici (Messina) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He has been working at the CNR since then establishing a new laboratory, Nano-Soft Lab, for optical tweezers, atomic physics, nanoscience, and spectroscopy. His research interests have been related to optical trapping, manipulation, and characterization of micro and nanoparticles, atoms, Bose-Einstein condensates. More generally he has been working on the mechanical interaction between light and matter for applications in nanoscience, atomic physics, complex systems, and soft-matter. He co-authored about 110 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, several proceedings and book chapters. He is co-author of the textbook “Optical Tweezers: Principles and Applications”, P. H. Jones, O. M. Maragò, G. Volpe, Cambridge University Press (2015). He is a member of the Board of the Doctorate School in Physics of the University of Messina since 2008. He has supervised several PhD students, undergraduate (master or batchelor) students, and visiting students from international universities. In 2017 he was awarded the National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) to teach as Full Professor in italian universities. He is an active senior member of OSA – The Optical Society, EPS – The European Physical Society, and APP – Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti. Within these societies, he serves as Advisor for the “Messina OSA Student Chapter” (since 2011) and the “Messina Young Minds Group” (since 2010) promoting topical seminars, meetings, and outreach activities. He also Chaired the “Optical Cooling & Trapping” OSA Technical Group (2013-2015), promoting and sponsoring activities at several topical conferences. He has been co-organizer of several meetings at national and international level, including the local seminar series “Appunti di Fisica” (since 2005).

 

 

Infrared Signatures of Interactions between Molecules and Free Charge Carriers in Nanostructures

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Annemarie Pucci (Lehmann) studied physics in Jena, Germany. Her doctorate studies at the university of Rostock were dedicated to the theory of optical phonons of disordered materials. Already as postdoc she started with infrared analytics of thin layers, which she later on continued at the university in Jena and, as guest researcher, in Troitzk/Moscow (ISAS), Tübingen (university), and Stuttgart (MPI-FKF). Before becoming a university professor for experimental physics in Heidelberg in 1995, she started doing surface science and He-atom scattering experiments at the physics department of the FU Berlin. Her research in Heidelberg is concentrated on studies of infrared excitations of surfaces, nanostructures, and thin layers from various inorganic and organic materials with focus on the couplings of different excitation types.  She was the first who explained surface enhanced infrared absorption as a Fano-type effect related to plasmonic excitations. At the university of Heidelberg, Annemarie Pucci gives lectures on condensed matter physics, optical properties of condensed matter, and surface science. Her research projects included surface science, infrared plasmonics, bio-photonics, laboratory astronomy, organic electronics, and low-dimensional electron systems.

 

 

Ultrafast Dynamics of Two-dimensional Materials

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Giulio Cerullo is a Full Professor with the Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano, where he leads the Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy laboratory. Prof. Cerullo’s research activity covers a broad area known as “Ultrafast Optical Science”, and concerns on the one hand pushing our capabilities to generate and manipulate ultrashort light pulses, and on the other hand using such pulses to capture the dynamics of ultrafast events in bio-molecules, nanostructures and two-dimensional materials (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides). He has published more than 450 papers which have received more than 19000 citations (H-index: 73). He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and of the European Physical Society and Chair of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society. He is the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant (2012-2017) on two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy of biomolecules. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journals Optica, Laser&Photonics Reviews, Scientific Reports, Chemical Physics, Journal of Raman spectroscopy. He is General Chair of the conferences CLEO/Europe 2017, Ultrafast Phenomena 2018 and the International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy 2020.