Dr Luca Sapienza, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton (UK)
- CURRENT POSITION
Associate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
- PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2014-2019 Lecturer in Physics, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
2013-2014 Research Associate, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America
Group Leader: Dr Kartik Srinivasan
2011-2013 Research Associate, Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Group Leader: Prof. Brian Gerardot
2011 Visiting Fellow, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Maryland, United States of America
2009-2010 Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Photonics Engineering
Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Group Leader: Prof. Peter Lodahl
2008 Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Physics
University College Dublin, Ireland
Group Leader: Dr Dominic Zerulla
- EDUCATION
2007 Ph.D., Mention Très Honorable, Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7), France
Thesis title: Electrically driven semiconductor devices operating in the light-matter strong coupling regime, Advisor: Prof. Carlo Sirtori
Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques, Université Paris-Diderot, France
2004 Laurea (M.Sc. equivalent), 110/110 cum laude, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Thesis title: Optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots in a magnetic field,
Advisors: Prof. Francesco Ancilotto, Prof. Gérald Bastard, Dr Robson Ferreira
Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, École Normale Supérieure de Paris, France; Department of Physics, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
2003-2004 Socrates-Erasmus Student at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France
I attended courses of the “Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (D.E.A.) en Sciences des Matériaux”, Specialité: Nanostructures.
2002 Summer Student at the Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Project title: Tight-binding model for spontaneous magnetism of quantum dot lattices
Advisors: Dr Pekka Koskinen, Prof. Matti Manninen
2001 Summer Student at the School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Project title: Photoluminescence of GaN nanoparticles
Advisors: Prof. Louise Bradley
- AWARDS
2004 Ing. Aldo Gini Prize of Excellence, Padua, Italy
- REVIEW ACTIVITY
Scientific projects:
Remote Evaluator for the European Commission’s Future and Emerging Technologies Programme
Remote Evaluator for the French National Research Agency (ANR)
Journals:
Light: Science & Applications, Scientic Reports, Science Bulletin, Optica, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Physical Review A, Physical Review B, Physical Review Applied, Applied Physics Letters, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Optical Materials Express, Physica Status Solidi, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Review of Scientic Instruments, Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Micromachines, Metrologia, Photonics, Crystals, Journal of Nanophotonics, Optical Communications
- MEMBERSHIPS
– Member of the European Optical Society
– Member of the Institute of Physics and Chair of the Semiconductor Group
– Member of the American Physical Society
– Member of the Optical Society of America and Business-Event Committee Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of the Nonlinear Optics Technical Group
– Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy
- CONFERENCES and SYMPOSIA ORGANISATION
– Member of the scientic committee of the Quantum Electronics Subcommittee of the OSA Frontiers in Optics conference (09/2018)
– Member of the scientic committee of the OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (07/2018)
– Member of the Technical Program Committee of META’17, 8th Int. Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (07/2017)
– Member of the Technical Program Committee of IWTAP-2017, International Workshop on Theoretical and Applied Physics (05/2017)
– Co-organiser of the “On-chip Integrated Quantum Photonics” special session at META’16, the 7th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (07/2016)
– Co-organiser of the “Solid-State Quantum Photonics” Focus session at the Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS2016) (08/2016)
– Co-organiser of the “Solid-State Quantum Photonics” Focus session at the Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS2015) (07/2015)
- CURRENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES
– Physics from Evidence (second year laboratory, core course for Physics & Astronomy)
– Electromagnetism (second year core course for Physics & Astronomy)
– Practical Photonics (second year optional course for Physics & Astronomy)
- LANGUAGES
Mother tongue: Italian
Fluent: English, French
Basic knowledge: Danish, German