Enrico Santamato
Structured Photons
Assistant Professors
Francesco Di Colandrea
Post-Docs
Sarvesh Bansal
Italo Machuca Flores
Patrick Cameron
PhD Students
Paola Savarese
Maria Gorizia Ammendola
Sneha Dey
Photonic devices for polarization and wavefront structuring and sensing
Post-Docs
Gerardo Hernández Oregón
Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Structured Matter
Post-Docs
PhD Students
Alumni
| Name | Time with the group | Affiliated with our group as | Position taken after leaving our group | Current position (if different and known) |
| Verónica Vicuña-Hernández | 2019-2024 | Post-doc | RTD/a INO-CNR Napoli | |
| Giovanni Paolo Palumbo | 2024 | undergraduate student (L physics) | graduate student (LM physics) in Naples | |
| Giulia Salatino | 2022 | graduate student (LM physics) | PhD student at Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples | |
| Lorenzo Amato | 2020-2021 | graduate student (LM physics) | PhD student at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland) | |
| Amin Babazadeh | 2019-2021 | Post-doc | Post-doc at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Wien (Austria) | |
| Raouf Barboza | 2018-2020 | Post-doc | Researcher at Università Politecnica delle Marche | |
| Alessio D’Errico | 2015-2019 | graduate student (LM and DR physics) and postdoc | Post-doc at the University of Ottawa (Canada) | |
| Maria Maffei | 2015-2018 | graduate student (LM and DR physics) | Post-doc at ICFO, Spain | |
| Adriana Pecoraro | 2014-2018 | graduate student (DR physics) | Post-doc in the Chemistry department in Naples | |
| Sen Mou | 2014-2018 | graduate student (DR physics) | Post-doc at the Sapienza University of Rome | |
| Chiara Esposito | 2017-2018 | graduate student (LM physics) | PhD student at University of Rome “La Sapienza” | |
| Arianna Ceraso | 2017-2018 | graduate student (LM physics) | PhD student in Politecnico di Milano | |
| Raffaele D’Amelio | 2016-2017 | undergraduate student (L physics) | graduate student (LM physics) in Trieste | |
| Roberto Capecelatro | 2016-2017 | undergraduate student (L physics) | graduate student (LM physics) in Naples | |
| Andrea Piccinelli | 2016-2017 | undergraduate student (L physics) | graduate student (LM physics) in Naples | |
| Mattia Trama | 2016 | undergraduate student (L physics) | graduate student (LM physics) in Naples | |
| Hamid R. Hamedi | 2016 | visiting PhD student (from University of Vilnius, Lithuania) | back in University of Vilnius, Lithuania | |
| Angela Chiatto | 2016 | undergraduate student (L physics) | graduate student (LM physics) in Naples | |
| Mattia Conte | 2016 | undergraduate student (L physics) | ||
| Damiano Fiorillo | 2016 | undergraduate student (L physics) | ||
| Rebeca Tudor | 2016 | visiting PhD student (from University of Bucharest, Romania) | back in University of Bucharest, Romania | |
| Pasquale Caterino | 2016 | undergraduate student (L physics) | ||
| Joseph Junca | 2016 | visiting graduate student (from Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France) | Back in Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France | |
| Michela Florinda Picardi | 2014-2015 | graduate student (LM physics) and research assistant | PhD student at at King’s college, London (UK) | associate editor for Optics and Photonics at Nature |
| Francesco Massa | 2012-2013 | graduate student (LM physics) | PhD student at the University of Wien (Austria) | |
| Gabriele De Luca | 2012-2013 | graduate student (LM physics) | PhD student at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland) | |
| Sergei Slussarenko | 2008-2013 | graduate student (DR physics) and post-doc | postdoc at Griffith University, Brisbane (Australia) | senior lecturer at Griffith University, Brisbane (Australia) |
| Riccardo Rao | 2012 | undergraduate student (L physics) | graduate student (LM physics) in Naples | PhD student at Université du Luxembourg |
| Ebrahim Karimi | 2007-2012 | graduate student (DR physics) and post-doc | postdoc at the University of Ottawa (Canada) | associate professor at the University of Ottawa (Canada) |
| Carmine Somma | 2012 | graduate student (LM physics) | PhD student at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin (Germany) | |
| Andrea D’Angiò | 2011-2012 | graduate student (LM material science) | PhD student at the University of Birmingham (UK) | |
| Francesco D’Angelo | 2011-2012 | graduate student (LM physics) | PhD student at the Max-Planck institute for polymer science, Mainz (Germany) | |
| Elsa Passaro | 2010-2011 | PhD student at ICFO Barcelona (Spain) | ||
| Martina Esposito | 2010 | undergraduate student (L physics) | graduate student (LM physics and PhD) at Università di Trieste (Italy) | back in Naples, as CNR scientist (currently on leave) |
| Vincenzo D’Ambrosio | 2009-2010 | graduate student (LM physics) | PhD student at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) | back in Naples, as researcher |
| Romolo Savo | 2008-2009 | graduate student (LM physics) | PhD student at LENS (Florence) | postdoc at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Superieure (France) |
| Annunziata (Nunzia) Savoia | 2004-2009 | graduate student (LM and DR physics) | postdoc at ENSTA Parìs (France) | technical scientist at Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules CNRS, Lille (France) |
| Marco Siano | 2007-2008 | graduate student (LM physics) | PhD student at Imperial College (UK) | |
| Andrea Rubano | 2003-2007 | graduate student (LM and DR physics) | postdoc at University of Bonn (Germany) | back in Naples, as researcher |
| Francesca Ciccullo | 2007 | undergraduate student (Lphysics) | graduate student (LM physics) in Naples | |
| Daniele Piccone | 2005-2006 | undergraduate student (L material science) | ||
| Carlo Manzo | 2000-2005 | graduate student (LM and DR physics) and postdoc | postdoc at Emory University, Atlanta (USA) | professor agregat at Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (Spain) |
| Bruno Blasi | 2005 | undergraduate student (internship physics) | ||
| Gabriella Cerrone | 1999-2003 | graduate student (LM and DR physics) | ||
| Sara Reynaud | 2003 | undergraduate student (L material science) | graduate student (LM material science) in Naples | |
| Melania Paturzo | 2001-2002 | graduate student (LM physics) | research fellow at CNR-INOA (Naples) | researcher at CNR-ISASI (Naples) |
| Dario Nicotra | 1999-2001 | graduate student (LM physics) | ||
| Giuseppe (Luca) Casillo | 1999-2000 | graduate student (LM physics) |
Legend on title denominations:
– L = Laurea (roughly equivalent to Bachelor of Science, BS)
– LM = Laurea Magistrale (roughly equivalent to Master of Science, MS or MSc)
– DR = Dottorato di Ricerca (equivalent to Philosophy Doctor, PhD)