Andrea Alù C.V.
Founding Director, Photonics Initiative, City University of New York Advanced Science Research Center
Einstein Professor of Physics, City University of New York Graduate Center
Full Professor of Electrical Engineering, City College of New York
Mail: 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, Rm. 2.322, New York, NY 10031, USA
Phone: +1. 212-413-3260, Fax: +1. 212-413-3138
e-mail: aalu@gc.cuny.edu, andrea.alu@asrc.cuny.edu
URL: https://metamaterials.ws.gc.cuny.edu/ (this website)
Education
2007 – 2008: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA (advisor: Prof. N. Engheta)
2004 – 2007: PhD in Electronic Engineering, University of Roma Tre – Italy (advisors: Prof. L. Vegni, Prof. N. Engheta)
2003 – 2004: MS degree in Environmental Engineering and Economics, University of Roma Tre – Rome, Italy
2001: Laurea (BS+MS) degree in Electronic Engineering (magna cum laude), University of Roma Tre – Rome, Italy
Professional Career
2018 -: Founding Director, Photonics Initiative, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, New York, NY
2018 -: Einstein Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY
2018 -: Adjunct Professor, ECE Department, UT Austin, Austin, TX
2016 – 2017: Full Professor, Temple Foundation Endowed Professor #3, ECE Department, UT Austin, Austin, TX
2015: Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW) Visiting Professor, AMOLF Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013-2015: Associate Professor, D.D. Lybarger Endowed Faculty Fellow, ECE Department, UT Austin, Austin, TX
2009-2013: Assistant Professor, ECE Department, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2006-2007: Adjunct Professor, EE Department, University of Roma Tre – Rome, Italy
2003-2007: PhD Student, University of Roma Tre
2002-2006: Visiting Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania
Selected Honors and Awards
2018 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences and Engineering (Finalist)
2017 SPIE Fellowship
2017 Materials Yioung Investigator Award (inaugural)
2017 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences and Engineering (Finalist)
2016 ICO Prize in Optics
2016 Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science
2016 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences and Engineering (Finalist)
2016 Simons Investigator in Physics
2016 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award Lectureship (inaugural)
2016 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering
2016 Italian Flame Award
2015 NSF Alan T. Waterman Award
2015: APS Fellowship
2015: NAS Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow (session chair / introductory speaker)
2015 KNAW Visiting Professorship (Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences)
2015 NAE Grangier Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Award
2015 U.S. NAE Frontiers of Engineering (speaker)
IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer (2014-2017)
2014 U.S. NAE Frontiers of Engineering (attendee)
2014 IEEE MTT Outstanding Young Engineer Award
2014: IEEE Fellowship
2014: APS Outstanding Referee
2014: Best Student Paper Award in Engineering Acoustics (with Romain Fleury) at the 168th ASA conference
2014: Young Presenter Award in Noise (with Romain Fleury) at the 168th ASA conference
2014: Best Student Paper Award (with Romain Fleury) at Metamaterials 2014
2014: UT Austin Outstanding Dissertation Award (with Yang Zhao)
2013 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics
2013: David & Doris Lybarger Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering
2013 Franco Strazzabosco Award for Young Engineers
2013 Medal of Representation of the President of the Republic of Italy
2013 OSA Adolph Lomb medal
2013: TEDx Austin plenary talk
2013: First and Second Prize Student Paper Awards at Metamaterials 2013 (with students F. Monticone, D. Strickland)
2013: OSA FellowshipCST University Publication Awards (2012, 2009)
2012 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award
Student Paper Award at Acoustics 2012 (1st prize, with student M. D. Guild)
Student Paper Award at the 2012 IEEE Internat. Symp. Antennas and Propagat. (2nd prize, with student J. Soric)
2011: DTRA Young Investigator Award
2011: URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal
2011: AFOSR Young Investigator Award
Student Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE Internat. Symp. Antennas and Propagat. (1st prize, with student Y. Zhao)
2010: NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
Student Paper Award at Auxetics 2010 (1st prize, with student M. D. Guild)
2010: URSI Commission B Young Scientist Award
2010: OSA Traveling Lecturer (2010-now)
2008: ‘Metamaterials’ Reviewer Award 2008
2008: Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics
2007: URSI Commission B Young Scientist Award
2007: ISAP Young Scientist Travel Grant
2006: Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Award from Optical Society of America (OSA)
2005: URSI General Assembly Young Scientist Award
2005: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Travel Grant
2005: Finalist at the IEEE AP-S Student Contest Award
2005: European School of Antennas Study Grant
2004: SUMMA Graduate Fellowship in Advanced Electromagnetics
2004: Finalist at the IEEE AP-S Student Contest Award
2004: Raj Mittra Travel Grant (RMTG) Junior Researcher Award
2004: URSI Commission B Young Scientist Award
2003: Second prize at the IEEE AP-S Student Contest Award
2002: Scipione Bobbio Award (best Laurea (MS) dissertation in electrodynamics in the whole Italy)
2001: Isabella Sassi Bonadonna Award
2001: Galluzzi for Engineering Award (best graduate in engineering all over Italy)
Service and Professional Leadership
Technical Program Committee Chair for 2016 IEEE International AP-S Symposium
Technical Program Committee Chair for Metamaterials 2014, Copenhaghen, Denmark
Technical Program Committee Chair for Metamaterials 2013, Bordeaux, France
Technical Program Committee and Steering Committee member in over 30 international conferences.
IEEE Central Texas Joint AP-S / MTT-S Chapter Chair (since 2011)
IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer (since 2014)
APS Outstanding Referee (since 2013)
OSA Traveling Lecturer (since 2010)
Editorial Board member of New Journal of Physics (since 2016)
Editorial Board member of Physical Review B (since 2014)
Editorial Board member of Advanced Optical Materials (since 2013)
Associate editor of Optics Express (since 2011)
Associate editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (since 2009)
Associate editor of Nanophotonics (since 2012)
Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports (2013-2016)
Associate editor of Metamaterials (2011-2013)
Associate editor of Advanced Electromagnetics (2011-2014)
Guest editor of special issues in: Journal of the Optical Society of America B (2015); Sensors (2010), Optics Communications (2011), IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2012), Photonics and Nanostructures – Fundamentals and Applications (2012)
Session organizer in over 30 international conferences
Plenary (>10), keynote, invited talks (>70) at conferences and tutorials
Lectures and seminars in several universities, conferences, short courses and PhD schools (>80)
Member of the IEEE AP-S Committee on New Technology Directions
Member of the IEEE AP-S Awards Committee
Member of the URSI-USNC Booker Committee
Fellow of IEEE (AP-S, MTT-S)
Fellow of OSA
Fellow of APS
Fellow of SPIE
Full member of URSI
Senior member of SPIE, MRS
Patents
US Patent No. 7,218,190: ‘Waveguides and scattering devices incorporating ε-negative and/or µ-negative slabs’
US Patent No. 9,008,471: ‘Optical circuits and circuit elements, and methods of forming same’
US Patent No. 9,405,136: ‘Magnetic-Free Non-reciprocal Devices Exhibiting Non-Reciprocity Through Angular Momentum Biasing’
US Patent No. 9,536,512: ‘Nonreciprocal acoustic devices based on angular-momentum biasing’
US Patent No. 9,733,545: ‘Nonlinear Metasurfaces Based on Plasmonic Resonators Coupled to Intersubband Transitions’
US Patent Application: ‘Cloaked sensor’
US Patent Application: ‘Tapered Optical Waveguide Coupled to Plasmonic Grating Structure’
US Patent Application: ‘Circuit-Loaded Conformal Metasurface Cloak’
US Patent Application: ‘Dual-Polarized, Broadband Metasurface Cloaks for Antenna Applications,’
US Patent Application: ‘Dielectric-core antennas surrounded by patterned metallic metasurfaces to realize radio-transparent antennas’
US Patent Application: ‘Parity-time symmetric metamaterial and metasurface devices’
US Patent Application: ‘Methods for sample characterization’
US Patent Application: ‘Eliminating Reciprocity Constraints in Radiating and Scattering Systems with Spatio-Temporal Modulation’
US Patent Application: ‘Magnetless Non-Reciprocal Devices Using Modulated Filters’
US Patent Application: ‘Microelectromechanical Resonant Circulator (MIRC)’
Research Consultant
Southwest Research Institute (2011-Present)
Eureka Aerospace (2008-Present)