Alu, Andrea

Biography:

Andrea Alù received his Ph.D. (2007), M.S. (2003) and Laurea (2001) degrees from the University of Roma Tre (Italy), and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007-2008. Dr. Alù is the co-author of over 250 scientific contributions published in international books, journals, transactions and peer-reviewed conference proceedings and is the co-inventor of two US Patents related to his research. Some of his research achievements have raised worldwide attention in the scientific and news press, like in the case of metamaterial cloaking and optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas. Over the last few years, he has won several international research awards, among which the Leopold B. Felsen Award for Eexcellence in Electrodynamics (2008), the SUMMA Graduate Fellowship in Advanced Electromagnetics (2004), Young Scientist Awards from URSI General Assembly (2005) and URSI Commission B (2007 and 2004), IEEE AP-S Student Paper award (2003) and the Raj Mittra Travel Grant Award (2004).

• Electromagnetics
• Metamaterials and plasmonic nanomaterials
• Nanoelectromagnetics
• Metamaterial and plasmonic cloaking
• Optical nanocircuits and nanostructures modeling
• Miniaturized RF antennas and nanoantennas
• Plasmonics, nano-optics and nano-photonics
• Microwave, THz, infrared and optical applications of complex media, metamaterials and metasurfaces
• Optical properties, biological and biomedical applications of plasmonic nanoparticles
• Photonics and materials science
• Metal-dielectric nanocomposites and thin metal films
• Electromagnetic and photonic crystals
• RF antennas and circuits
• Analysis and synthesis of planar and conformal integrated components and phased antenna arrays
• Theoretical and numerical methods for electromagnetics