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Andrea Alù is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, TX, USA. He is also affiliated with the Applied Research Laboratories at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is involved in research projects on electromagnetics and acoustics.
Dr. Alù is currently seeking brilliant and highly motivated graduate students and postdocs to join his group at UT Austin. If you believe to be an exceptional candidate with interests in electromagnetism, plasmonics, and/or acoustics please feel free to contact me.
Dr. Andrea Alù received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Roma Tre in Rome, Italy in 2007. He joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin in 2009. Since 2002 he has been actively working in the fields of metamaterials and plasmonics at the University of Roma Tre and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. He has received several international awards in recognition of his research achievements, including the L. B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics, the SUMMA Graduate Fellowship in Advanced Electromagnetics and three URSI Young Scientist Awards.
Dr. Alù’s research specializes in electromagnetic metamaterials and plasmonics, with applications spanning microwaves, infrared and optical frequencies, including nanooptics and nanophotonics, cloaking and transparency, nanocircuits and nanostructures modeling, miniaturized antennas and nanoantennas. His research has significantly contributed to the fields of plasmonic cloaking, optical nanoantennas and nanocircuits and to the theory and modeling of metamaterials. He is currently teaching a graduate course on advanced electromagnetics and metamaterials. He has published more than 90 journal papers and 11 book chapters. A selected list of recent publications may be found here.
News
- January 29, 2010: Andrea Alù has received the NSF CAREER award 0953311 "CAREER: Sensing, Imaging and Energy Applications of Metamaterial Cloaks"!
- January 29, 2010: the paper S. Tricarico, F. Bilotti, A. Alù, and L. Vegni, “Plasmonic Cloaking for Irregular Objects with Anisotropic Scattering Properties,” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review E.
- January 18, 2010: the paper I. Gallina, G. Castaldi, V. Galdi, A. Alù, and N. Engheta, “Power Scattering and Absorption Mediated by Cloak/Anti-Cloak Interactions: A Transformation-Optics Route towards Invisible Sensors,” has been posted on arxiv.
- January 18, 2010: the paper A. Alù, “Effect of Small Random Disorders and Imperfections on the Performance of Arrays of Plasmonic Nanoparticles,” has been published in New Journal of Physics, Vol. 12, 013015 (12 pages).
- January 4, 2010: Fig. 1 from the paper A. Alù, “Mantle cloak: Invisibility induced by a surface,” Phys. Rev. B 80, 245115 (2009) has been selected to appear in Kaleidoscope.
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