Bring a mate and don't be late!

Procrastinators,🕚 rejoice! The call for abstract📝 by #PLASMONICA2026 has been extended until April 26th. All info on the workshop in the 🧵 below. Last few days to collect that last stubborn data point 📊 that you wanted to include in your abstract...

Congratulations to our PhD student at sNOm Lab @vynisle.bsky.social Fabrizio Conti (left) for a best poster prize at #PlasmonicaSchool2026!

Fabrizio Conti (front) and Zhifan Dai (back) valently representing our sNOm group @vynisle.bsky.social #PoliMi at the #Poster session #PlasmonicaSchool2026.

Christmas lights in the lab🎄with supercontinuum generation 🔆 - Best wishes to all for the festive season!

Behind the curtains, lot of hard work is being put in by the organizing team spearheaded by Francesco Pineider and Alessio Gabbani. This promises to be another top notch #PLASMONICA Workshop and for sure I will not miss it!

Procrastinators, rejoice! The deadline to apply for #PLASMONICAschool2026 has been extended until November 16th ⏰. Bring a mate and don't be late!

Nonlinear plasmonic sensing, but monitoring changes in the wavevector ↙️↘️ rather than wavelength domain. Kudos 🙌 to the perseverance of A. Verneuil, joint Ph.D. of @uttroyes.bsky.social (A.-L. Baudrion) and #PoliMi ( @vynisle.bsky.social, M. Finazzi, myself). 📰 open access 🌐 doi.org/10.1002/adom....

Pardon me for shamelessly advertising our recent work on nonlinear interferometry (by Yigong Luan supervised by Marco Finazzi, @vynisle.bsky.social, and myself at #PoliMi) also now featured on the homepage of 💡 Light: Science and Application. Article free to read at: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

@plasmonica.bsky.social is organizing a summer school on "Plasmonic and Nano-optics" (march 23-27 in Florence, Italy), with a bunch of amazing lecturers and speakers, plus me. Come and join us! www.plasmonica.it/2026school/

I cannot enroll as a student any more, but you'll find me here 😉

Just out our joint paper with UniBS and @ethz.ch on GHz speed modulation of linear and nonlinear light with a lithium niobate metasurface! Thanks @agostino.bsky.social @attilio-zilli.bsky.social @rachelgrange.bsky.social & the ETH team for this awesome collaboration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you graduated during 2024 (M.Sc. or Ph.D.) in #optics or #photonics at an Italian institution, do not miss the chance to apply for a #thesis #award from the Italian optical society (SIOF). Info and calls 📃 on www.siof-ottica.it/categories/n.... ONE WEEK LEFT before the deadline of 31/07/2025! ⌛

#PLASMONICA2025 hosted for the first time in its history a Special Session organized with an industrial partner, namely, the Smart Eyewear Lab – a joint initiative of #EssilorLuxottica and #PoliMi. We think it has been an effective way to draw in actors outside academia and reach new audiences...🧵

The seat of the next edition of the workshop has been announced🥁🥁: beautiful Pisa will host #PLASMONICA2026! Kudos to all the organizers for stepping in: Francesco Pineider, Alessandro Tredicucci, Giuseppe Barillaro, Andrea Tomadin (#UniPi); Alessio Gabbani (#UniFi); Chiara Cappelli (@sns.it).

Best Oral 🏆 at #PLASMONICA2025 to Jonathan Barolak from #UniPavia for his talk "Automated design of one-dimensional #photonic crystals for all-optical image processing". Best poster 🏅 to Shukun Weng from #IIT Genova for his poster "Electrically tunable ion transportation of MoS2/SiN nanochannel".

One last round of applause 👏👏👏 to the whole Organizing Committee - particularly to Stefania Benedetti and Luca Bursi - for the flawless unfolding of #PLASMONICA2025, and thanks again to #UniMoRe and #CNR-NANO for hosting us!

#PLASMONICA2025 is now over, and we know that many participants stayed in the area for the weekend 😎 while others headed home already 🚞. We wish all of you a safe trip back and hope to see you again at future events of our Community 🌈 (to be announced here within few days...)

... and the group picture 📷 of #PLASMONICA2025 is out! We are such a good-looking Community ☺️

The special session "Metasurfaces for smart vision and imaging" organized by the Smart Eyewear Lab (#EssilorLuxottica & Politecnico di Milano #Polimi) just started 🕶! Bert Hecht from @uni-wuerzburg.de kicks it off with individually addressable #plasmonic #nanoscale OLEDs (🌐 doi.org/10.48550/arX...).

#PLASMONICA2025 is drawing to a close today, but the last coffee break and poster session were still lively! Complesso San Geminiano has been a fantastic venue and the shadowy porticos 🏛️ of the historical centre of #Modena helped us cope with an early summer heatwave 🫠.

The final day of #PLASMONICA2025 has started with the invited talk on “Plasmonics for energy and #sustainability“ 🔋🔆🌱 given by Emiliano Cortés from @lmumuenchen.bsky.social . If you missed the talk, you can catch up by reading this comment article: doi.org/10.1038/s415....

The recent activity of our #Nano-optics Lab at #PoliMi (@vynisle.bsky.social, @paolobiagioni.bsky.social, and Marco Finazzi) is being showcased today at #PLASMONICA2025. Yaping Hou shows lithium niobate #metasurfaces for electro-optics. The enhancement of SHG by a qBIC was measured just few day ago!

Today at #PLASMONICA2025 we witnessed the dawn of "nanoporonics"! Denis Garoli from #UniMoRe abd #IIT Genova showed us (logic) gates realized with #plasmonic #nanopores 🕳️

Our whole Steering Committee is attending #PLASMONICA2025 and with the occasion we took a picture of them together at the Round Table! From left to right: Emilija Petronijevic, @ninofoti.bsky.social, Nicoletta Granchi, @attilio-zilli.bsky.social, and Chiara Novara.

🎺🎺 #PLASMONICA2025 has finally started! Alejandro Manjavacas (Theoretical #Nanophotonics group in @iqf-csic.bsky.social, Madrid) kicked it off with an invited talk on the "Collective lattice resonances in complex arrays of nanostructures".

The second day of #PLASMONICA2025 has started 🔔 with an invited talk on "Sensing electromagnetic landscapes in 3D with single molecules and nm resolution" by Valentina Krachmalnicoff from @instlangevin.bsky.social Paris. We're having the time of our lifetime 😏!

Last reminder ⏲️ of the early 🐦 deadline of #PLASMONICA2025: register by tomorrow (June 6) to enjoy a discounted rate. And you are still in time to submit an abstract to present a poster too! See the 🧵 below and 🌐 plasmonica2025.nano.cnr.it for all the info, including the scientific programme.

Procrastinators,🕚 rejoice! The call for abstract📝 by #PLASMONICA2025 has been extended until April 11th. All info on the workshop in the 🧵 below, including scientific topics and invited speakers. 10 more days to collect that last stubborn data point 📊 that you wanted to include in your abstract...

Just one week left ⏳⌛📆 to submit your abstract to #PLASMONICA2025! Check out all the info in the 🧵 below, including scientific topics and invited speakers.

A carefully curated line-up of invited speakers 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 at #PLASMONICA2025 🇮🇹 proposing a selection of diverse and timely topics in #nano-optics 💡. Can't wait to meet them in Modena. Check the whole 🧵👇 to discover them all!

I am very happy of being involved in this collaboration between Andrea and Quynh @vuamsterdam.bsky.social and us at #PoliMi! Can't wait to so some nonlinear optical measurements 🔬🔩💡 with these beautiful new #nanoparticles ⚗️

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

As a member of the Steering Committee of Plasmonica I am privileged to peek behind the scenes 👀 and I can assure you that the Organizers are doing a fantastic work: #PLASMONICA2025 is going to be a meticulously crafted edition and I hope to meet you all in Modena next june!

The highlight of our calendar 📅 is a Workshop gathering about 100 attendees, each year in a different location throughout Italy. The last one was in Messina, where our banner picture was taken 📷. From this map, can you guess where the 2025 edition will take place? (dates to be announced soon...) 🧵/3

New year, new motto for the Lab door tag! It fits well the twilight zone of our optical experiments 🕳️👀💡; but do you know where it comes from?

#PLASMONICA2025 promises to be a great edition of the Workshop and definitely I am not not going to miss it! I hope to see many of you there: Save the date and bring a mate.

Happy 2025 = 45², the first “square” year since 1936, the next being 2116. Its digit sum is also a square: 2+0+2+5 = 9 = 3². This last happened in 1681 and next occurs in 2304. And not since 900 has the year divided by the digit sum been a square too: 900/9=100 = 10² & 2025/9=225 = 15² QED. 👀🎉😁

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

Featuring (1st pic, from left) Alfonso Nardi, Marco Faverzani, Yigong Luan, Michele Celebrano, Marco Finazzi, myself, @paolobiagioni.bsky.social, Agostino Di Francescantonio.

Plants play a LOT of clever tricks with light (beyond that little miracle that is photosynthesis). If the topic interest you, there is a #PhD position open to work on it with Dr. Rox Middleton (a very bright young researcher at @uniofbath.bsky.social) #PhDjobs botphot.com/wp-content/u...

This is us in a group picture from our 🔟th birthday in 2023. We are the #plasmonics and #nano-optics Working Group of the Italian Society of Optics and Photonics (SIOF). So don't be fooled by our name: our activities cover the whole spectrum 🌈 of #nanophotonics research! 🧵/2

So accurate! Everybody I know fits neatly into one class. (But I will never tell anybody which one I think they are...)

As I am new to this place, I thought I might introduce my research interests with a word cloud made with Scholar Goggler 🥽 @scholargoggler.bsky.social. If you are working on this stuff too, please like ♥️ this post so I can follow you back!

Yesterday two new members joined our group: welcome to Alfonso Nardi (Red Team, front), previously post-doc with @rachelgrange.bsky.social at @ethzurich.bsky.social and Agostino Di Francescantonio (Blue Team, back) who is completing his PhD with us. Looking forward to do exciting science 💡 together!

Hello, World! Here begins a thread 📜 where (little by little) we will tell you more about the Plasmonica Community: A way to introduce ourselves here 🦋 to those who don't know us already and a walk down memory lane for those who already do... 🧵/1

Congratulations to the newly elected 🗳️ members of the Presidential Board of the Italian optical society (SIOF): Ilaria Rea, Roberto Rella, Maria Grazia Manera, Michele Celebrano @vynisle.bsky.social, Francesca Rossi, Andrea Cusano, Silvia Soria, Pietro Gucciardi, Tommaso Ongarello, Isabella Carrer.

Haven’t mentioned it publicly, but I’m looking for my next job! Please reach out if you hear of any interesting opportunities. You can learn more about who I am and what I can do at my portfolio site: reshef.ca

Have you complained about how broken the academic publishing industry presently is? Here is an opportunity to walk the talk and support factually a scientific society-based publication model – that is, made by scientists and for scientists. Ultimately, our choices as authors are driving this system.