Riccardo Sapienza
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
- 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...
- Interesting article on UK academia and its financial pressure by @milespadgett.bsky.social and @antonmuscatelli.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/a-more...
- 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
- Cannot agree more profserious.substack.com/p/my-new-yea...
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- 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...
- The life of a PhD student is not only in the lab, Dimitrie has explored the boundary between innovation, technology and policy. All this while completing his PhD last week! 🍾 physicsworld.com/a/bridging-t...
- Metamaterials right? 😜 physicsworld.com/a/quantum-in...
- Do not miss John’s interview on metamaterials www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
- Anthony made this grest video to explain what we discovered in www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMvB...
- What a visionary Man Ray was! nyer.cm/nE3Yl5y
- And IMAP takes off! 🚀With an Imperial-built instrument 😜 science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/
- Weekend baking, bomboloni sourdough, recipe by Maurizio Leo www.theperfectloaf.com/naturally-le...
- Morning bake, after so long! #sourdough #academicbaking
- London with the sun!
- super Jack!! such an exciting project! 🤩
- One week left to apply!
- Join our team, we are recruiting! 🫵 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ308/r...
- How scientist are responding to the dismantling of the scientific system in US, to preserve integrity and truth www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Do you know how university finances works? profserious.substack.com/p/understand...
- Nice taking about our work on time-varying media @spie.org Join our team, we are recruiting! 🫵
- Taking off for SPIE Optics+Photonics in San Diego, if you are there and want to meet just let me know! Or come to my talk on Monday @spie.org
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- Join our team to work on ultrafast spectroscopy of time-varying metamaterials, within our project meta4d.co.uk more details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ308/r...
- New paper from the lab, @razimantv.bsky.social, Paco Rodriguez and team found out surface plasmon polariton can be excitated in time-modulated media! arxiv.org/abs/2507.05126
- Great to be at ETOPIM13 in New York, wonderful workshop, thank you Andrea Alù and Emil Prodan. See you at the next edition in 2028... etopim13.sciencesconf.org
- So excited to get the chance to explore light interaction with synthetically moving metamaterials 💡🏃 supported by @erc.europa.eu via the #ERCAdG LUMINOUS!
- The workshop in Wave propagation and material response in time-varying media is kicking off! meta4d.co.uk/workshop-on-...
- Wonderful to host Prof Anne L’Hullier, discussing the first observations of high-harmonic generation which gave her the Nobel prize in 2023
- Some interesting ideas, and a reminder of never stopping questioning how we do and organise science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- New paper from the lab, where we play with superluminal interactions (without breaking relativity!) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- The UK is getting more and more active in Metamaterials! Now we have a Metamaterials Hub 🎉 www.ukri.org/news/turning...
- Wonderful conference in Madrid meta4d.co.uk/waves-in-tim... Or is it Casa de Papel?
- News from the lab: Doubly Resonant c-GaP Nanocavity for Second Harmonic Generation, great collaboration with Boris Kalinic and Giovanni Mattei pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
- Our lab at Imperial shown by Sukorno @imperialphysics.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DJTz2V6...
- 📢 The #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now OPEN! Apply to join Imperial Physics and advance your research in a world-class UK environment. Reach out to join our team! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-op...
- Happiness is flour from a water mill
- Wonderful visit today by Frank Sheffold, talking about complex photonics
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- Join us at the Workshop on wave propagation and material response in time-varying media, June 2025 at Imperial www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19066...
- Very good option piece on the UK research assessment (REF) wonkhe.com/blogs/portab...
- Join our lab as part of the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship. We're looking for AI experts to develop computational solutions to our laser-based neuromorphic computing scheme. lu.ma/encode-proje...
- I also agree that openness is they key skill for a researcher www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Enjoying the Workshop on metamaterials with extra dimensions, kindly hosted by colleagues at Mathematics, quite a new experience for me ;-) metamaterials.network/workshop-on-...
- Join our lab to work on “AI for Neuromorphic computing! encode.pillar.vc/projects/pho...
- I celebrate submission more than success😜 reward the effort 🤟. One more today…
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- What a great story! Hackers trying to bring the Human Ai Pin back to life, showing the power of open source/open innovation www.wired.com/story/the-hu...
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- Great to be part of this new ARIA funded programme and host a ML expert in our team. Stay tuned to see what we will do together! encode.pillar.vc
