Staff Members
Group Leader – Structured Photons
Group Leader – Photonic devices for polarization and wavefront structuring and sensing
Group Leader – Nonlinear Spetroscopy and Structured Matter
Slam Head
Nonlinear Spetroscopy and Structured Matter
Structured Photons
Post Docs
Structured Photons
Structured Photons
Structured Photons
Photonic devices for polarization and wavefront
structuring and sensing
PhD Students
Structured Photons
Structured Photons
Structured Photons
Nonlinear Spetroscopy and Structured Matter
Alumni
| Name | Time with the group | Affiliated with our group as | Position taken after leaving our group | Current position (if different and known) |
| Enrico Santamato | — | — | Emeritus | |
| Simone Di Giorgio | 2025 | undergraduate student (L physics) | graduate student (LM physics) in Naples | |
| 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 | RTDa in Bari |
| 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)