Andrea Alù Explained

Birth Date:27 September 1978
Birth Place:Rome, Italy
Fields:Engineering, physics, photonics
Awards:Alan T. Waterman Award (2015)
IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2020)

Andrea Alù (born September 27, 1978) is an Italian American scientist and engineer, currently Einstein Professor of Physics at The City University of New York Graduate Center.[1] He is known for his contributions to the fields of optics, photonics, plasmonics, and acoustics, most notably in the context of metamaterials and metasurfaces.[2] He has co-authored over 650 journal papers and 35 book chapters, and he holds 11 U.S. patents.[3]

Career biography

Andrea Alù received his laurea (2001), MS (2003), and PhD (2007) in electronic engineering from Roma Tre University. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Nader Engheta at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor. In 2015 he was also the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) visiting professor at the AMOLF Institute in the Netherlands.[4] [5] [6] In January 2018, he became the founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center (CUNY ASRC) and Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center.[7]

Alù is known for his breakthroughs in metamaterials, including his work on invisibility cloaking, or making objects transparent to incoming electromagnetic or acoustic waves. He realized the first freestanding three-dimensional invisibility cloak.[8] [9] [10] [11]

His research group also developed the first acoustic circulator,[12] [13] a device that can route sound asymmetrically as a function of the propagation direction, and he has made important advances in ultrathin optical devices based on engineered materials for linear and nonlinear optics.[14]

Awards and honors

Alù is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors,[15] American Association for the Advancement of Science,[16] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, SPIE,[17] the American Physical Society,[18] Optica, and the Materials Research Society.[19] He is a full member of URSI and a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher since 2017.[20] [21]

Among his several scientific awards and honors, he has been named the 2021 Blavatnik National Award Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering, the largest unrestricted scientific prize for America's most innovative, young, faculty-rank scientists and engineers.[22] [23] He also received the 2015 Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation, the United States' highest honorary award for young scientists.[24] [25]

Alù has been serving as the president of the Metamorphose Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials,[26] as a member of the administrative committee of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society,[27] as an OSA and IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer.[28]

He has been a Simons Investigator in Physics since 2016[29]  and the director of the Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena since 2020.[30] [31] [32] He has organized and chaired various international symposia and conferences, including several of the metamaterials conference series, and has been the technical program chair in several conferences, including the IEEE AP-S Symposium in 2016.

List of awards and honors

Publications

Alù to date has authored over 650 journal articles, 950 conference papers, and 35 book chapters, which have received over 53,000 citations.[51]

See also

Past artificial material researchers

Metamaterial scientists

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Andrea Alù, Ph.D. – The Advanced Science Research Center. 2021-09-15. asrc.gc.cuny.edu. en-US.
  2. Web site: Andrea Alu. 2021-09-15. scholar.google.com.
  3. Web site: Andrea Alu's webpage. 2021-09-15. www.alulab.org.
  4. Web site: Andrea Alu's webpage. 2021-09-15. www.alulab.org.
  5. Web site: Laser & Photonics Reviews. 2021-09-15. Wiley Online Library. en.
  6. Web site: Visiting professor Andrea Alù wins Alan T. Waterman Award. 2021-09-15. AMOLF.
  7. Web site: Andrea Alù to Direct Photonics Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center at the GC. 2021-09-15. www.gc.cuny.edu.
  8. Web site: 2014-02-07. Heat cloaks hide objects in 3D. 2021-09-15. Physics World. en-GB.
  9. Web site: 2014-03-01. The Invisible Man. 2021-09-15. The Alcalde. en-US.
  10. Ball. Philip. 2005-02-28. Engineers devise invisibility shield. Nature. en. news050228–1. 10.1038/news050228-1. 0028-0836. free.
  11. Web site: Scientists create first free-standing 3-D cloak. 2021-09-15. ScienceDaily. en.
  12. Web site: Prof. Andrea Alù and Team Build First Nonreciprocal Acoustic Circulator: A One-Way Sound Device. 2021-09-15. www.ece.utexas.edu.
  13. Fleury. Romain. Sounas. Dimitrios L.. Sieck. Caleb F.. Haberman. Michael R.. Alù. Andrea. 2014-01-31. Sound Isolation and Giant Linear Nonreciprocity in a Compact Acoustic Circulator. Science. 343 . 6170 . 516–519 . 10.1126/science.1246957 . 24482477 . 2014Sci...343..516F . 32554369 . EN.
  14. 2018-01-01. Nonlinear metasurfaces: a paradigm shift in nonlinear optics. Materials Today. en. 21. 1. 8–21. 10.1016/j.mattod.2017.06.007. 1369-7021. 1706.07563. Krasnok . Alexander . Tymchenko . Mykhailo . Alù . Andrea . 119371216 .
  15. Web site: National Academy of Inventors. 2021-09-15. en-US.
  16. Web site: AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2019 Fellows American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2021-09-15. www.aaas.org. en.
  17. Web site: Andrea Alù IEEE Communications Society. 2021-09-15. www.comsoc.org.
  18. Web site: Prof. Andrea Alù Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society Texas ECE - Electrical & Computer Engineering at UT Austin. 2021-09-15. www.ece.utexas.edu.
  19. Web site: 2021 MRS Fellows MRS Awards. 2021-09-15. www.mrs.org.
  20. Web site: Professor Andrea Alù Is Named a Highly Cited Researcher for the Fourth Consecutive Year – The Advanced Science Research Center. 2021-09-15. asrc.gc.cuny.edu.
  21. Web site: Highly Cited Researchers. 2021-09-15. publons.com.
  22. Web site: Andrea Alù Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. 2021-09-15. blavatnikawards.org. en.
  23. Web site: Andrea Alù Named Blavatnik National Awards Laureate for Nano-Optics, Materials Advancements - Opera News. 2021-09-15. www.dailyadvent.com.
  24. Web site: The National Science Foundation names engineering researcher Andrea Alù its Alan T. Waterman awardee for 2015. 2021-09-15. www.nsf.gov. English.
  25. Web site: Multimedia Gallery - 2015 Alan T. Waterman Awardee Dr. Andrea Alù NSF - National Science Foundation. 2021-09-15. www.nsf.gov.
  26. Web site: Professor Andrea Alù Elected New President of METAMORPHOSE. 2021-09-15. www.gc.cuny.edu.
  27. Web site: You are being redirected.... 2021-09-15. ieeeaps.org. 11 June 2014 .
  28. Web site: Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Andrea Alù, The University of Texas at Austin. 2021-09-15. IEEE.
  29. Web site: Prof. Andrea Alù Appointed Simons Investigator in Physics WNCG. 2021-09-15. wncg.org.
  30. Web site: 2020-06-18. Foundation Announces Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena Based on Symmetries. 2021-09-15. Simons Foundation. en-US.
  31. Web site: Professor Andrea Alù Receives Simons Foundation Grant of Up to $16 Million for Photonics Research. 2021-09-15. www.gc.cuny.edu.
  32. Web site: Zhemin. Shao. 2020-11-11. On the same wavelength: Scientists collaborate to explore symmetry, waves. 2021-09-15. Yale Daily News. en.
  33. Web site: Optica names recipients of 2024 Awards and Medals Optica . 2024-03-20 . www.optica.org.
  34. Web site: AAAFM-Awards Winner Announced: AAAFM UCLA 2021. 2021-09-15. en-US.
  35. Web site: Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists announce 2021 laureates, in America's largest unrestricted scientific prize for promising young researchers Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. 2021-09-15. blavatnikawards.org.
  36. Web site: Prize laureates. 2021-09-15. nano.huji.ac.il. en.
  37. Web site: 2021 MRS Fellows MRS Awards. 2021-09-15. www.mrs.org.
  38. December 2020. 2020 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 68. 12. 7741. 10.1109/TAP.2020.3043057. 2020ITAP...68.7741. . 1558-2221. free.
  39. Web site: 2020-06-18. Foundation Announces Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena Based on Symmetries. 2021-09-15. Simons Foundation. en-US.
  40. Web site: Highly Cited Researchers. 2021-09-15. publons.com.
  41. Web site: National Academy of Inventors. 2021-09-15. en-US.
  42. Web site: AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2019 Fellows American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2021-09-15. www.aaas.org. en.
  43. Web site: 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Spotlight: Andrea Alù. 2021-09-15. Basic Research Research Directorate. en-US.
  44. Ihalage. Achintha. Hao. Yang. 2021-05-21. Analogical discovery of disordered perovskite oxides by crystal structure information hidden in unsupervised material fingerprints. npj Computational Materials. 7. 1. 75 . 10.1038/s41524-021-00536-2 . 2105.11877. 2021npjCM...7...75I . 234796889 . 2057-3960.
  45. Web site: Andrea Alú awarded the ICO Prize 2016. 2021-09-15. spie.org.
  46. Web site: The Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science. 2021-09-15. www.mrs.org.
  47. Web site: 2018-07-10. Simons Investigators. 2021-09-15. Simons Foundation. en-US.
  48. Web site: Prof. Andrea Alù Named Recipient of ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award and Lectureship Texas ECE - Electrical & Computer Engineering at UT Austin. 2021-09-15. www.ece.utexas.edu.
  49. Web site: 2016 O'Donnell Awards - TAMEST. 2021-09-15. TAMEST The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas. en-US.
  50. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award # 1547728 - 2015 Waterman Award. 2021-09-15. www.nsf.gov.
  51. Web site: Andrea Alu's webpage. 2021-09-15. www.alulab.org.