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...

Dead 💀

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

The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to congratulate Professor Michele Dougherty on her appointment as the first female Astronomer Royal. 🔭💫🪐 Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre... ⤵️

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/...

"Synthetic" motion can be faster than light! The trick is to change the properties of a material in a way resembling a Mexican wave: Although no one leaves their seat, their organised motion creates a wave. We can make such a change in a material, faster than light, with intense laser illumination.

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

UK ‘gains more access’ to Horizon funding for quantum and space. Science minister urges UK researchers to “seize moment” as EU research funding opportunities grow. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

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…

🔬🌀 From black holes to earthquake shields, Sir John Pendry’s lecture this year explored how #metamaterials help us bend reality! @imperialphysics.bsky.social These engineered materials defy optical limits & enable us to manipulate waves like never before 🔽 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/261753/...

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...