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Andrea Alù
Also published under:A. Alu, A. Alù, Andrea Alu, A. Alú, Andrea Alú, Andrea Alù
Affiliation
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
City University of New York, New York, USA
City University of New York, New York, USA
Topic
Metasurface,Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface,Geometric Phase,Metasurface Design,Varactor,Circularly Polarized,Electromagnetic Environment,Electromagnetic Field,Surface Impedance,Wave Impedance,Base Station,Beamwidth,Continuous State,Decay Rate,Degrees Of Freedom,Electro-optic Modulator,Graphene,Metamaterial,Optical Frequency,Optical Modes,Patch Antenna,Phase Response,Phase Shift,Phase Singularities,Phased Array,Relative Amplitude,Relative Phase,Spatial Dispersion,Surface Waves,Symmetry Breaking,Topological Charge,Wavefront,Waveguide,Wireless Systems,2D Materials,3D Space,Angular Response,Antenna Array,Calcium Silicate,Carrier Frequency,Cellular Networks,Circularly Polarized Light,Constant Shift,Coupled Mode Theory,Critical Coupling,Design Strategies,Dipole Moment,Dispersion Engineering,Electric Dipole Moment,Electromagnetic Response,
Biography
Andrea Alú (S’03–M’07–SM’12–F’14) received the Laurea, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, in 2001, 2003, and 2007, respectively.
From 2002 to 2008, he was with the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia, PA, USA, where he has also developed significant parts of his Ph.D. and postgraduate research. After spending one year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UPenn, in 2009, he joined the Faculty of The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, where he was the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor until 2018. He is currently the Founding Director of the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY, USA. He is also the Einstein Professor of Physics with the CUNY Graduate Center and a Professor of electrical engineering with The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA, and an Adjunct Professor and a Senior Research Scientist with The University of Texas at Austin. He is a coauthor of an edited book on optical antennas, over 450 journal papers, and over 30 book chapters, with over 30 000 citations to date. His current research interests span over a broad range of areas, including metamaterials and plasmonics, electromangetics, optics and nanophotonics, acoustics, scattering, nanocircuits and nanostructures, miniaturized antennas and nanoantennas, and RF antennas and circuits.
Dr. Alú is also a Full Member of International Union of Radio Science (URSI) and a fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA), Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineer (SPIE), and American Physical Society. He has organized and chaired various special sessions in international symposia and conferences and was the Technical Program Chair for the International Metamaterials Conference in 2014 and 2015 and the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society (AP-S) Symposium in 2016. Over the last few years, he received several research awards, including the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award in 2019, the IUMRS Young Researcher Award in 2018, the ICO Prize in Optics in 2016, the inaugural MDPI Materials Young Investigator Award in 2016, the Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science in 2016, the inaugural ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award Lectureship in 2016, the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering in 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Alan T. Waterman Award in 2015, the IEEE MTT Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2014, the OSA Adolph Lomb Medal in 2013, the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics in 2013, the Franco Strazzabosco Award for Young Engineers in 2013, the SPIE Early Career Investigator Award in 2012, the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal in 2011, an NSF CAREER award in 2010, the AFOSR and the DTRA Young Investigator Awards in 2010 and 2011, the Young Scientist Awards from URSI General Assembly in 2005, and the URSI Commission B in 2004, 2007, and 2010. His students have also received several awards, including student paper awards at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposia in 2011 to Y. Zhao and in 2012 to J. Soric. He has been a Simons Investigator in Physics since 2016. He has been selected four times as finalist of the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from 2016 to 2019 and of the IET A. F. Harvey Prize Engineering Research Prize in 2019. He has been a Highly Cited Researcher from Web of Science since 2017. He has served as an Associate Editor for the New Journal of Physics, Materials (MDPI), IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Scientific Reports, Metamaterials, Advanced Electromagnetics, and Optics Express. He has guest edited special issues for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Nanophotonics, Journal of Optics, Journal of the OSA B, Photonics and Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications, Optics Communications, Metamaterials, and Sensors on a variety of topics involving metamaterials, plasmonics, optics, and electromagnetic theory. He is also an Associate Editor of the Applied Physics Letters and serves on the Editorial Board of Physical Review B, Advanced Optical Materials, EPJ Applied Metamaterials, and Metamaterials (ISTE). He has been serving as the President of the Metamorphose Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials, a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE AP-S, an OSA Traveling Lecturer since 2010, an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer since 2014, and the IEEE Joint AP-S and MTT-S Chapter for Central Texas.
From 2002 to 2008, he was with the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia, PA, USA, where he has also developed significant parts of his Ph.D. and postgraduate research. After spending one year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UPenn, in 2009, he joined the Faculty of The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, where he was the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor until 2018. He is currently the Founding Director of the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY, USA. He is also the Einstein Professor of Physics with the CUNY Graduate Center and a Professor of electrical engineering with The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA, and an Adjunct Professor and a Senior Research Scientist with The University of Texas at Austin. He is a coauthor of an edited book on optical antennas, over 450 journal papers, and over 30 book chapters, with over 30 000 citations to date. His current research interests span over a broad range of areas, including metamaterials and plasmonics, electromangetics, optics and nanophotonics, acoustics, scattering, nanocircuits and nanostructures, miniaturized antennas and nanoantennas, and RF antennas and circuits.
Dr. Alú is also a Full Member of International Union of Radio Science (URSI) and a fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA), Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineer (SPIE), and American Physical Society. He has organized and chaired various special sessions in international symposia and conferences and was the Technical Program Chair for the International Metamaterials Conference in 2014 and 2015 and the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society (AP-S) Symposium in 2016. Over the last few years, he received several research awards, including the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award in 2019, the IUMRS Young Researcher Award in 2018, the ICO Prize in Optics in 2016, the inaugural MDPI Materials Young Investigator Award in 2016, the Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science in 2016, the inaugural ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award Lectureship in 2016, the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering in 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Alan T. Waterman Award in 2015, the IEEE MTT Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2014, the OSA Adolph Lomb Medal in 2013, the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics in 2013, the Franco Strazzabosco Award for Young Engineers in 2013, the SPIE Early Career Investigator Award in 2012, the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal in 2011, an NSF CAREER award in 2010, the AFOSR and the DTRA Young Investigator Awards in 2010 and 2011, the Young Scientist Awards from URSI General Assembly in 2005, and the URSI Commission B in 2004, 2007, and 2010. His students have also received several awards, including student paper awards at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposia in 2011 to Y. Zhao and in 2012 to J. Soric. He has been a Simons Investigator in Physics since 2016. He has been selected four times as finalist of the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from 2016 to 2019 and of the IET A. F. Harvey Prize Engineering Research Prize in 2019. He has been a Highly Cited Researcher from Web of Science since 2017. He has served as an Associate Editor for the New Journal of Physics, Materials (MDPI), IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Scientific Reports, Metamaterials, Advanced Electromagnetics, and Optics Express. He has guest edited special issues for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Nanophotonics, Journal of Optics, Journal of the OSA B, Photonics and Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Applications, Optics Communications, Metamaterials, and Sensors on a variety of topics involving metamaterials, plasmonics, optics, and electromagnetic theory. He is also an Associate Editor of the Applied Physics Letters and serves on the Editorial Board of Physical Review B, Advanced Optical Materials, EPJ Applied Metamaterials, and Metamaterials (ISTE). He has been serving as the President of the Metamorphose Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials, a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE AP-S, an OSA Traveling Lecturer since 2010, an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer since 2014, and the IEEE Joint AP-S and MTT-S Chapter for Central Texas.