Ph.D.: University of Roma Tre (Italy), Engineering of Biomedical Electronics, Electromagnetics and Telecommunications, 2007

M.S.: University of Roma Tre (Italy), Environmental Economics and Engineering, 2004

Laurea: University of Roma Tre (Italy), Electronics Engineering, 2001

2018-now: Founding Director, Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York

2018-now: Einstein Professor, Physics Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York

2018-now: Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, City College of New York, City University of New York

2018-now: Adjunct Professor, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA

2014-now: Chief Technology Officer, Silicon Audio RF Circulator, Austin, TX, USA

2016-2018: Full Professor, Temple Foundation Endowed Professor #3, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA

2016: Associate Professor, Cockrell Family Dean’s Chair in Engineering Excellence Fellow, UT Austin

2015: KNAW Visiting Professor at AMOLF, The Netherlands

2013-2015: AssociateProfessor, David & Doris Lybarger Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA

2009-2012: Assistant Professor, UT Austin

2007-2008: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania

2006-2007: Adjunct Professor of Electromagnetic Field Theory, University of Roma Tre

2003-2007: PhD Student, University of Roma Tre

2002-2006: Visiting Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania

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.

President of the Metamorphose Virtual InstituteIEEE 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)

Associate Editor of Applied Physics Letters (since 2019)

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 AAASFellow of National Academy of Inventors

Vannevar Bush Faculty

Fellow (DoD)

Fellow of IEEE (AP-S, MTT-S)

Fellow of MRS

Fellow of OSA

Fellow of APS

Fellow of SPIE

Full member of URSI

S. Kendall, C. R. de Galarreta, J. Shields, J. Bertolotti, G. Yang, M. Wang, A. Alù, H. Bhaskaran, and C. D. Wright, “Dynamically Reconfigurable 2D Polarization-Agnostic Image Edge-Detection Using Nonvolatile Phase-Change Metasurfaces Optics Express, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 8971-8982, February 21, 2025. (web)

H. Zhu, J. Wang, A. Alù, and L. Chen, “Polarization-Controlled Chiral Transport,”Light: Science and Applications, Vol. 14, No. 77 (9 pages), February 10, 2025. (web, arxiv)

H. Lee, L. Chang, A Kecebas, D. Mao, Y. Xiao, T. Li, A. Alù, S. K. Özdemir, and T. Gu, “Chiral Exceptional Point Enhanced Active Tuning and Nonreciprocity in Micro- Resonators,”Light: Science and Applications, Vol. 14, No. 45 (10 pages), January 9, 2025. (web, arxiv)

L. Stefanini, D. Ramaccia, M. Barbuto, M. Longhi, A. Monti, S. Vellucci, A. Toscano, A. Alù, V. Galdi, and F. Bilotti, “Time-Varying Metasurfaces for Efficient Surface-Wave Coupling to Radiation and Frequency Conversion,” Laser and Photonics Reviews, Vol. 18, No. 12, 2400315 (9 pages), December 2024 (published online on August 10, 2024). (web)

Alù, “Structured Light Meets Integrated Photonics,”Photonics Insights, Vol. 4, No. 1, C01 (2 pages), December 2024 (published online on December 5, 2024), (invited paper). (web)

Nagulu, A. Mekkawy, M. Tymchenko, D. Sounas, H. Krishaswamy, and A. Alù, “Magnet-Free Non-Reciprocity,” Physical Review Applied, Vol. 22, No. 6, 064020 (13 pages), December 5, 2024. (web)

Q. Guo, Y. K. Wu, D. Zhang, A. Alù, X. F. Ren, C. W. Qiu, “Polarization Entanglement Enabled by Orthogonally Stacked van der Waals NbOCl2 Crystals,” Nature Communications, Vol. 15, No. 10461 (9 pages), December 2, 2024. (web, arxiv)

J. Fang, R. Chen, D. Sharp, E. M. Renzi, A. Manna, A. Kala, S. A. Mann, K. Yao, C. Munley, H. Rarick, A. Tang, S. Pumulo, Y. Zheng, V. M. Menon, A. Alù, and A. Majumdar, “Million-Q Free Space Meta-Optical Resonator at Near-Visible Wavelengths,”Nature Communications, Vol. 15, No. 10341 (11 pages), November 28, 2024. (web, arxiv)

F. Xie, W. Jin, J. R. Nolen, H. Pan, N. Yi, Y. An, Z. Zhang, X. Kong, F. Zhu, K. Jiang, S. Tian, T. Liu, X. Sun, L. Li, D. Li, Y. F. Xiao, A. Alù, S. Fan, and W. Li, “Subambient Daytime Radiative Cooling of Vertical Surfaces,” Science, Vol. 386, No. 6723, pp. 789-794, November 14, 2024. (web) [Physics Today, Phys.org]

P. Abdipour, A. N. Askarpour, and A. Alù, “Equivalent Constitutive Parameters for Stacks of Metasurfaces at Arbitrary Incident Angles,”Physical Review B, Vol. 110, No. 17, 174201 (16 pages), November 12, 2024. (web)

H. Kwon, G. D’Aguanno, and A. Alù, “Optically Transparent, Broadband and Omnidirectional Microwave Absorber Based on Graphene-SiO2 Metasurfaces,” Optics Express Vol. 32, No. 23, pp. 41974-41983, November 1, 2024. (web)

J. R. Nolen, A. C. Overvig, M. Cotrufo, and A. Alù, “Local Control of Polarization and Geometric Phase in Thermal Metasurfaces,” Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 19, No. 11, pp. 1627-1634, November 2024. (web, arxiv) [Press release, Physics World, ANSA, Photonics Spectra, Laser Focus World]

K. Wang, S. Zhao, C. Shen, L. Shi, H. Zou, J. Lu, and A. Alù, “Breaking the Causality Limit for Broadband Acoustic Absorption Using a Noncausal Active Absorber,” Device, Vol. 2, No. 10, 100502 (10 pages), October 18, 2024 (published online on August 9, 2024). (web)

Z. Chen, H. He, H. Li, M. Li, J. J. Kou, Y. Q. Lu, J. Xu, and A, Alù, “Observation of Parity-Time Symmetry for Evanescent Waves,” Communications Physics, Vol. 7, No. 339 (8 pages), October 16, 2024. (web)

Y. Radi, N. Nefedkin, P. Popovski, and A. Alù, “Nonlinear, Active, and Time-Varying Metasurfaces for Wireless Communications: A Perspective and Opportunities,” IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol. 66, No. 5, pp. 52-62, October 2024 (published online on May 8, 2024). (web)

W. Li, J. Qi, and A. Alù, “Single-Pixel Super-Resolution with a Space-Time Modulated Computational Metasurface Imager,” Photonics Research, Vol. 12, No. 10, pp. 2311-2322, October 1, 2024 (published online on July 12, 2024). (web)

M. Cotrufo, S. Esfahani, D. Korobkin, A. Alù, “Temporal Signal Processing with Nonlocal Optical Metasurfaces,” npj Nanophotonics, Vol. 1, No. 39 (9 pages), October 1, 2024. (web, arxiv)

K. Chen-Hu, R. J. Williams, A. Alù, and P. Popovski, “Frequency Shifter-RIS Assisted Standalone Mm-Wave Cellular Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 11799-11813, September 2024 (published online on April 11, 2024). (web)

C. Trovatello, A. Marini, M. Cotrufo, A. Alù, P. J. Schuck, and G. Cerullo, “Tunable Optical Nonlinearities in Layered Materials,” ACS Photonics, Vol. 11, No. 8, pp. 2860-2873, August 21, 2024 (published online on July 25, 2024), (invited paper). (web)

C. Forestiere, G. Miano, and A. Alù, “First-Principles Nanocircuit Model of Open Electromagnetic Resonators,” Physical Review Applied, Vol. 22, No. 3, 034014 (20 pages), September 5, 2024. (web)

S. Esfahani, M. Cotrufo, and A. Alù, “Tailoring Space-Time Nonlocality for Event-Based Image Processing Metasurfaces,” Physical Review Letters, Vol. 133, No. 6, 063801 (7 pages), August 7, 2024. (web, arxiv)

A. Alù, and A. Salandrino, “2023 Optical Materials Express Emerging Researcher Best Paper Prize: Editorial,” Optical Materials Express, Vol. 14, No. 8, pp. 2112-2113, August 1, 2024. (web)

H. Goh, A. Krasnok, and A. Alù, “Nonreciprocal Scattering and Unidirectional Cloaking in Nonlinear Nanoantennas,” Nanophotonics, Special Issue on Nonlinear Nanophotonics, Vol. 13, No. 18, pp. 3347-3353, August 2024 (published online on July 29, 2024), (invited paper). (web)