Alessandro Tredicucci

Education
1992 - "Laurea" summa cum laude in physics from Pisa University and "Diploma" in physics of the Scuola Normale Superiore
1997 - Ph.D. summa cum laude in physics from the Scuola Normale Superiore

Experience
1997-2000 - Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ - Research Contractor
2000-2003 - Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Assistant Professor
2003-2009 - INFM – Senior Scientist
2009-2014 - CNR-NANO – Research Director

Research
1991-1992 - Optical properties of excitons in semiconductor heterostructures
1993-1996 - Light-matter interaction in semiconductor microcavities. Highlight: first observation of the exciton vacuum Rabi splitting in bulk semiconductors [Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3906 (1995)]
1997-2000 - Intersubband transitions in semiconductor heterostructures and quantum cascade lasers. Highlights: first multi-wavelength semiconductor laser [Nature 396, 350 (1998)], chirped superlattice quantum cascade lasers [Appl. Phys. Lett. 73, 2101 (1998)]
2000-present - THz photonics. Highlights: first THz heterostructure laser [Nature 417, 156 (2002)], vertically emitting microdisk lasers [Nature Photon. 3, 46 (2009)], first quasi-crystal injection lasers [Nature Photon. 4, 165 (2010)], THz detectors based on semiconductor nanowires [Nano Lett. 12, 96 (2012)] and graphene [Nature Mater. 11, 865 (2012)], THz saturable absorbers [Nature Comm. 8, 1 (2017)] and opto-mechanical bolometers [ACS Photonics 9, 360 (2022)].
2003-present - Modification and control of light interaction at the quantum scale. Highlights: observation of intersubband polaritons [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 116401 (2003)], non-adiabatic optical manipulation of polariton coupling [Nature 458, 178 (2009)], coherent absorption control in a polariton system [Nature Phys. 10, 830 (2014)], optomechanics of chiral systems [Nanophotonics 8, 2291 (2019); Adv. Opt. Mater. 8, 1901507 (2020)].

Scientific Production
289 publications in ISI - Web of Science Core
18915 citations in Google Scholar (h-index 62)
16 international patents
111 invited talks at conferences, of which 10 plenary/keynote and 9 tutorial

Professional Assignments
2019-today Member of the Directive Council of LENS
2015-today: Associate Editor of Applied Physics Letters
2010-2015: Associate Editor of the Journal of IR, mm and THz Waves
2016-2020: President of the Physics Area Committee of Pisa University
Panel Member of the Swiss National Science Foundation Consolidator Grants 2014 and international referee member of Division II of the SNSF Research Council (2018-2022).
2014: member of the review board of the Paul Drude Institut, Berlin - Germany
2013: member of the review board of RIEC, Tohoku University - Japan
2012: member of the advisory panel for Technological Districts of the Italian Ministry of Research (PON ReC 2007-2013)
2006-2014: member of the Scientific Council of the Materials and Devices Department of CNR
2010-2014: member of the CNR - Fondazione Bruno Kessler strategic committee

Conference Organization
Chair of the 13th edition of the MSS conference (Genova 2007)
Chair of the 11th edition of "ITQW” (Sardinia 2011)
Chair of the 4th and co-chair of the 5th EOS TST Meeting (Camogli 2014, Pecs 2016)
Chair of the Condensed Matter section of the 100° Congress of the Italian Physical Society (Pisa 2014)
Chair of the POISE school (Cortona 2006)
Co-chair of “The 3rd IQCLSW” (Monte Verità 2008)
Director of the workshop “Physics and technology of THz photonics” (Erice 2005)

Awards
1999 Bernardini and 2003 S. Panizza award of the Italian Physical Society
2005 S. Campisano prize of CNR
2007 Copernico prize
2013 Nick Holonyak Jr. award of the Optical Society of America
2014 Fellow of the OSA
2014 Occhialini medal of the Institute of Physics

Project Coordinator
NATO SPS THESEUS (2020-2023)
PRIN2017 MONSTRE-2D (2019-2022)
ERC advanced grant "SoulMan" (2013- 2018)
MISE Terafluid (2012-2014)
EC Teranova (thematic) (2004-2008)