In our group we study light at the nanoscale and in complex photonic architectures.

Beside research we are engaged in teaching and outreach, and we are very interested in open science and learning by making. 

Our Research interests

Our main scientific interest is nanophotonics of complex systems. We study metamaterials, which are artificial materials with properties that do not exist in natural materials. In particular we are looking at time-varying metamaterials, whose optical properties vary in time on very fast time-scales, of the order of the light optical cycle. We also investigate unconventional lasers, designed by nanostructured materials, which we exploit as neuromorphic computers, capable to perform calculation during their lasing action.

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Our main scientific tools are single emitter spectroscopy, lasing microscopy and ultrafast nonlinear microscopy. Our lab is equipped with home-built ultrafast setups with optical parametric amplifiers in the visible and near-infrared range, with pump and probe setups and advanced light shaping technology, as well as home-built single-emitter microscopes and time-correlated single-photon counting.