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Riccardo Sapienza is a Professor of Physics at Imperial College London and Deputy Head of Department for Research in the Department of Physics (Faculty of Natural Sciences). His research focuses on light manipulation in nanoscale architectures, metamaterials, and time-varying systems. He leads the Centre for Plasmonics and Metamaterials and is affiliated with the Quantum Engineering, Science and Technology Hub and the Physics Permanent Researchers group.
Education history includes roles as Reader at Imperial College London (2017–present), Lecturer at King’s College London (2012–2017), and postdoctoral research across institutions in Italy, Spain, and France. His expertise spans optical physics, photonics, and materials engineering with applications in neuromorphic computing and quantum optics.
Research interests include ultrafast optical processes, nanophotonic lasers, and coherent perfect absorption/amplification in dynamic media. His group explores metamaterials for time-varying phenomena, nonlinear optics, and biocompatible random lasing systems. Key achievements include pioneering work on epsilon-near-zero materials and network laser architectures.
His lab (sapienzalab.org) combines theoretical modeling with experimental nanofabrication, focusing on applications like retinomorphic machine vision and synthetic motion in metasurfaces. Collaborations span interdisciplinary fields including biophotonics and quantum engineering.
