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Andrea Alù is a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), serving as founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at City College of New York. He concurrently holds positions as Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, affiliated with the Wireless Networking and Communications Group and Applied Research Laboratories.
He received his Laurea, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, in 2001, 2003, and 2007, respectively, following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania before joining UT Austin in 2009.
Dr. Alù's research spans metamaterials, plasmonics, electromagnetics, optics, photonics, scattering phenomena, cloaking technologies, transparency mechanisms, nanocircuits, nanostructures modeling, miniaturized antennas, RF circuits, acoustics, and mechanical metamaterials. His pioneering work in electromagnetic and optical metamaterials has received extensive media coverage from BBC, CNN, and NBC due to its revolutionary implications.
His extensive scientific recognition includes:
- 2021 Blavatnik National Award Laureate in Physics and Engineering
- Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2021)
- IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2020)
- DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (2019)
- IUMRS Young Researcher Award (2018)
- Multiple 2016 awards including ICO Prize in Optics and O'Donnell Award in Engineering
- NSF Alan T. Waterman Award (2015)
- OSA Adolph Lomb Medal (2013)
- NSF CAREER award (2010)
- URSI Young Scientist Awards across multiple years
As a Simons Foundation Investigator since 2016 and Highly Cited Researcher since 2017, he directs the Simons Collaboration on Extreme Wave Phenomena and serves as Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Audio RF Circulator. His editorial leadership includes Associate Editor roles for Applied Physics Letters and multiple IEEE/OSA journals.
He leads the Metamaterials and Plasmonic Research Laboratory and maintains affiliations with Texas Acoustics and the Wireless Networking and Communications Group, driving interdisciplinary research in electromagnetic and acoustic wave manipulation.
