Name Andrea Alu Role Author | Fields Engineering physics | |
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Born September 27, 1978Roma, Italy Residence currently Austin, Texas, U.S.A.previously Pennsylvania, U.S.Apreviously Italy Institutions University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Pennsylvania Known for MetamaterialsNanophotonics Notable awards Alan T. Waterman Award (2015) Similar People | ||
Prof andrea al
Andrea Alù (born in Rome, Italy, September 27, 1978) is the Template Foundation Endowed professor at the University of Texas who is a significant contributor to the field of novel or advanced materials research. He has authored over 200 journal papers, 15 book chapters, 270 conference papers, and is attributed with over 10,000 citations, which includes some published research that has been cited by over 100 and over 200 others. Professionally, he is currently a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (since 2003), IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (2003), IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (2003), IEEE Communications Society, the Optical Society of America (2007), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007).
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He has received over 25 professional honors and scientific awards. Also professionally, he is currently an editor for the peer-reviewed journal Metamaterials, and is an active (international) peer reviewer for 50 scientific journals, nine funding agencies, and engaged by the editorial offices of Wiley, IEEE Press, Cambridge University Press, CRC Press, and Prentice Hall. Some of the scientific journals for which he peer reviews are Nature, Science, Physical Review journals (A,B,E, Letters), and includes journals produced by the American Chemical Society, the Optical Society of America, IEEE, IOP Science and others. He is also co-inventor of three inventions in various stages of the patent process which are novel waveguides, scattering devices, optical circuits, optical circuit elements, and a cloaked sensor device.
Andrea al the fascinating optics of metasurfaces
Career biography
Since January 2009 Alù has been an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is part of the faculty at the Wireless Networking & Communications Group, a lab fully dedicated to communications research. He did his postdoctoral research under Professor Nader Engheta at the Fields and Waves Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. of biomedical electronics, electromagnetics and telecommunications from the Roma Tre University, in 2007. Since March 2014, Alù has been on the Board of Scientific Advisors at Metamaterial Technologies Inc., an international optical nano-composites company (www.metamaterial.com)