Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, exploring light at the nanoscale, trying to make sense of the world, nanophotonic enthusiast - proud dad of 2
Riccardo Sapienza
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News from the lab! 🤩
Is it possible to switch a material from being an absorber to an amplifier just by changing the phase of light?
By treating a thin film of ITO as a time-varying medium, we achieved 400% amplification and 80% absorption within the same structure.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cannot agree more
profserious.substack.com/p/my-new-yea...
Join our team at Imperial College London! 🚀
I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher in time-varying metamaterials and ultrafast structured light in space and time.
👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPX643/r...
🔹 Deadline: 31st January 2026
#Photonics #Postdoc #Physics #Metamaterials #ScienceJobs
It was a great honor to step on the "aula Rostagni" @unipd.bsky.social Università degli Studi di Padova, and give a talk, in the same place where 25 years before I was defending my MSci thesis... If you had asked me then I would never have guessed that
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L_x...
Interesting article on UK academia and its financial pressure by @milespadgett.bsky.social and @antonmuscatelli.bsky.social
wonkhe.com/blogs/a-more...
