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Associate Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at The University of L'Aquila, Italy.
Theoretical physicist fond of Nonlinear Nanophotonics

Short bio

Prof Marini made his first steps in research in 2008 during the final year of the Master Degree in Physics of Condensed Matter at the University of L'Aquila, Italy. After joining in October 2008 the Centre for Photonics and Photonic materials at the University of Bath, United Kingdom, he achieved his PhD in Physics in November 2011. He led postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (2011-2014) in Erlangen, Germany, and at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences (2014-2017) in Castelldefels, Spain. In his career he has been awarded two Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships and a ''Rita Levi Montalcini'' Assistant Professorship funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research. From December 2017 to November 2020 he was appointed as Assistant Professor and currently he is an Associate Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at The University of L'Aquila, Italy.

Contact

andrea.marini.tlp@gmail.com
andrea.marini@aquila.infn.it
andrea.marini@univaq.it

phone: +39 0862 433050
fax: +39 0862 433303
mobile: +393477757899

Address

Via Vetoio, Edificio Coppito I,
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli studi di L'Aquila,
67100 L'Aquila (Italy).
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RESEARCH

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The research background and expertise of Prof Marini extend over the theoretical modeling of miniaturized photonic devices, where novel physical mechanisms can be exploited to achieve active functionalities at micro- and nano-scales. From 2008, Prof Marini has co-authored 54 papers in top-level international journals, one book chapter, and 33 conference abstracts/proceedings (with ~ 1600 citations and h-index of 23). In particular, Prof Marini has experience in the theoretical modelling of graphene plasmons, ultrafast and nonlinear dynamics of electrons in metals, semiconductors, and two-dimensional materials, nonlinear dynamics in plasmonic waveguides and metamaterials, supercontinuum generation and dispersive waves in photonic crystal fibers.

Nonlinear Plasmonics

Theoretical modeling of nonlinear dynamics in metal-based plasmonic structures:

- ultrafast response

- self-organization and solitons

- harmonic generation

- out-of-equilibrium nanophotonics
Near-zero-index media

Theoretical modeling of nonlinear dynamics in transparent conductors, plasmas, and artificially engineered epsilon-near-zero metamaterials:

- transient trapping of slow light

- self-organization of frozen waves

- harmonic generation

- all-optical control and modulation

- optical vortices
Random metamaterials

Theoretical modeling of amplification and cavity-free lasing in random metamaterials:

- single-mode random meta-lasers

- mode-locked random meta-lasers

Two-dimensional media

Theoretical modeling of the nonlinear optical response of 2D crystals:

Graphene:

- saturable absorption

- harmonic generation

- graphene plasmons

- plasmon-enhanced high-harmonic generation

- plasmon-based molecular sensing

Transition metal dichalcogenides:

- second- and third-harmonic generation

- parametric down-conversion

- phase-matching free parametric oscillation
Publications
Journal articles:
2021
A. Sahoo, A. Marini, and S. Roy, ''Free-carrier-induced nonlinear dynamics in hybrid graphene-based photonic waveguides", Physical Review A 104, 063501 (2021).

A. Ciattoni, C. Conti, and A. Marini, ''Electric directional steering of Cathodoluminescence from graphene-based hybrid nanostructures ", Physical Review Applied 15, 054016 (2021).

G. R. Sherwood, D. Chronopoulos, A. Marini, and F. Ciampa, ''3D-printed phononic crystal waveguide transducers for nonlinear ultrasonic damage detection", NDT & E International 121, 102456 (2021).

M. H. Ebrahim, A. Marini, V. Bruno, N. Kinsey, J. B. Khurgin, D. Faccio, and M. Clerici, ''Temporal dynamics of strongly coupled epsilon-near-zero systems", Applied Physics Letters 119, 221101 (2021).

C. Ferrante, E. Principi, A. Marini, G. Batignani, G. Fumero, A. Virga, L. Foglia, R. Mincigrucci, A. Simoncig, C. Spezzani, C. Masciovecchio, and T. Scopigno, ''Non-linear self-driven spectral tuning of Extreme Ultraviolet Femtosecond Pulses in monoatomic materials", Light: Science & Applications 10, 92 (2021).

C. Trovatello, A. Marini, X. Xu, C. Lee, F. Liu, N. Curreli, C. Manzoni, S. Dal Conte, K. Yao, A. Ciattoni, J. Hone, X. Zhu, P. J. Schuck, and G. Cerullo, ''Optical parametric amplification by monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides", Nature Photonics 15, 6-10 (2021).

2020
V. Demontis, A. Marini, F. Floris, L. Sorba, and F. Rossella, ''Engineering the optical reflectance of randomly arranged self-assembled semiconductor nanowires", AIP Conference Proceedings 2257, 020009 (2020).

A. Ciattoni, C. Conti, A. V. Zayats, and A. Marini, ''Electric Control of Spin-Orbit Coupling in Graphene-Based Nanostructures with Broken Rotational Symmetry", Laser & Photonics Reviews 14, 2000214 (2020).

A. Nieminen, A. Marini, and M. Ornigotti, ''Goos–Hänchen and Imbert–Fedorov shifts for epsilon-near-zero materials ", Journal of Optics 22, 035601 (2020).

2019

A. Ciattoni, C. Conti, and A. Marini, ''Multipolar terahertz absorption spectroscopy ignited by graphene plasmons", Communications Physics 2, 1-6 (2019).

A. Sahoo, A. Marini, and S. Roy, ''Heat-induced soliton self-frequency redshift in the ultrafast nonlinear dynamics of active plasmonic waveguides", Physical Review A 100, 013848 (2019).

F. Floris, L. Fornasari, V. Bellani, A. Marini, F. Ban, F. Marabelli, F. Beltram, D. Ercolani, S. Battiato, L. Sorba, and F. Rossella, ''Strong Modulations of Optical Reflectance in Tapered Core-Shell Nanowires", Materials 12, 3572 (2019).

A. Marini, A. Ciattoni, and C. Conti, ''Out-of-equilibrium electron dynamics of silver driven by ultrafast electromagnetic fields-a novel hydrodynamical approach", Faraday discussions 214, 235 (2019).

2018

V. Mkhitaryan, L. Meng, A. Marini, and F. J. García de Abajo, ''Lasing and amplification from two-dimensional atom arrays'', Physical Review Letters 121, 163602 (2018).

A. Autere, H. Jussila, A. Marini, J. R. M. Saavedra, Y. Dai, A. Säynätjoki, L. Karvonen, H. Yang, B. Amirsolaimani, R. A. Norwood, N. Peyghambarian, H. Lipsanen, K. Kieu, F. J. García de Abajo, and Z. Sun, ''Optical harmonic generation in monolayer group-VI transition metal dichalcogenides''', Physical Review B 98, 115426 (2018).

A. Ciattoni, C. Rizza, H. W. H. Lee, C. Conti, and A. Marini, ''Plasmon-enhanced spin-orbit interaction of light in graphene'', Laser & Photonics Reviews 1800140 (2018).

A. Ciattoni, A. Marini, C. Rizza, and C. Conti, ''Phase-matching-free parametric oscillators based on two-dimensional semiconductors'', Light: Science & Applications 7, 5 (2018).

M. Baudisch, A. Marini, J. D. Cox, T. Zhou, F. Silva, S. Teichmann, M. Massicotte, F. Koppens, L. S. Levitov, F. J. García de Abajo, and J. Biegert, ''Ultrafast nonlinear optical response of Dirac fermions in graphene'', Nature Communications 9, 1018 (2018).

D. N. Carvalho, A. Marini, and F. Biancalana, ''The Nonlinear Optical Effects of Opening a Gap in Graphene'', Physical Review B 97, 195123 (2018).

C. Rizza, X. Li, A. Di Falco, E. Palange, A. Marini, and A. Ciattoni, ''Enhanced asymmetric transmission in hyperbolic epsilon-near-zero slabs'', Journal of Optics 20, 085001 (2018).

2017

F. Floris, L. Fornasari, A. Marini, V. Bellani, F. Banfi, S. Roddaro, D. Ercolani, M. Rocci, F. Beltram, M. Cecchini, L. Sorba, and F. Rossella, ''Self-Assembled InAs Nanowires as Optical Reflectors'', Nanomaterials 7, 400 (2017).

F. Ciampa, A. Mankar, and A. Marini, ''Phononic Crystal Waveguide Transducers for Nonlinear Elastic Wave Sensing'', Scientific Reports 7, 14712 (2017).

D. N. Carvalho, F. Biancalana, and A. Marini, ''Monolayer Graphene Can Emit SHG Waves'', Optical Data Processing and Storage 3, 47 - 53 (2017).

D. N. Carvalho, A. Marini, and F. Biancalana, ''Dynamical centrosymmetry breaking - A novel mechanism for second harmonic generation in graphene'', Annals of Physics 378, 24 - 32 (2017).

A. Ciattoni, A. Marini, and C. Rizza, ''Efficient Vortex Generation in Subwavelength Epsilon-Near-Zero Slabs", Physical Review Letters 118, 104301 (2017).

A. Marini, J. D. Cox, and F. J. García de Abajo, ''Theory of graphene saturable absorption", Physical Review B 95, 125408 (2017).

J. D. Cox, A. Marini, and F. J. García de Abajo, ''Plasmon-assisted high-harmonic generation in graphene", Nature Communications 8, 14380 (2017).

2016

A. Ciattoni, A. Marini, and C. Rizza, ''All-optical modulation in wavelength-sized epsilon-near-zero media", Optics Letters 41, 3102 - 3105 (2016).

A. Marini and J. F. García de Abajo, ''Graphene-Based Active Random Metamaterials for Cavity-Free Lasing", Physical Review Letters 116, 217401 (2016). (Highlighted in the Cover of PRL Volume 116, Number 21)

A. Ciattoni, C. Rizza, A. Marini, A. Di Falco, D. Faccio, and M. Scalora, ''Enhanced nonlinear effects in pulse propagation through epsilon-near-zero media", Laser & Photonics Reviews 10, 517 - 525 (2016).

A. Marini and F. J. García de Abajo, ''Self-organization of frozen light in near-zero-index media with cubic nonlinearity", Scientific Reports 6, 20088 (2016).

2015

M. F. Saleh, A. Armaroli, A. Marini, and F. Biancalana, ''Strong Raman-induced noninstantaneous soliton interactions in gas-filled photonic crystal fibers", Optics Letters 40, 4058 (2015).

A. Marini, I. Silveiro, and F. J. García de Abajo, ''Molecular sensing with tunable graphene plasmons", ACS Photonics 2, 876 (2015).

M. F. Saleh, A. Armaroli, Tr. X. Tran, A. Marini, F. Belli, A. Abdolvand, and F. Biancalana, ''Raman-induced temporal condensed matter physics in gas-filled photonic crystal fibers", Optics Express 23, 11879 (2015).

A. Marini, S. Roy, A. Kumar, and F. Biancalana, ''Loss-compensated nonlinear modes and symmetry breaking in amplifying metal-dielectric-metal plasmonic couplers", Physical Review A 91, 043815 (2015).

2014

A. Marini, S. Longhi, and F. Biancalana, ''Optical simulation of neutrino oscillations in binary waveguide arrays", Physical Review Letters 113, 150401 (2014).

S. Roy, A. Marini and F. Biancalana, ''Free-carrier driven spatio-temporal dynamics in amplifying silicon waveguides", Physical Review A 89, 053827 (2014).

A. Marini, Tr. X. Tran, S. Roy, S. Longhi, and F. Biancalana, ''Optical analog of spontaneous symmetry breaking induced by tachyon condensation in amplifying plasmonic arrays", Physical Review A 89, 023840 (2014).

M. F. Saleh, A. Marini, and F. Biancalana, ''Shock-induced PT-symmetric potentials in gas-filled photonic crystal fibers", Physical Review A 89, 023801 (2014).

2013

M. Conforti, A. Marini, Tr. X. Tran, D. Faccio, and F. Biancalana, ''Interaction between optical fields and their conjugates in nonlinear media", Optics Express 21, 31239 (2013).

A. V. Gorbach, A. Marini, and D. V. Skryabin, ''Graphene-clad tapered fibre: effective nonlinearity and propagation losses", Optics Letters 38, 5244 (2013).

A. Marini and F. Biancalana, ''Ultrashort Self-Induced Transparency Plasmon Solitons", Physical Review Letters 110, 243901 (2013).

A. Ciattoni, A. Marini, C. Rizza, M. Scalora, and F. Biancalana, ''Polariton excitation in epsilon-near-zero slabs: transient trapping of slow light", Physical Review A 87, 053853 (2013).

S. Roy, A. Marini, and F. Biancalana, ''Self-frequency blueshift of dissipative solitons in silicon based waveguides", Physical Review A 87, 065803 (2013).

H. Dong, C. Conti, A. Marini, and F. Biancalana, ''Terahertz relativistic spatial solitons in doped graphene metamaterials", Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 46, 155401 (2013).

A. Marini, M. Conforti, G. Della Valle, H. W. Lee, Tr. X. Tran, W. Chang, M. A. Schmidt, S. Longhi, P. St.J. Russell, and F. Biancalana, ''Ultrafast nonlinear dynamics of surface plasmon polaritons in gold nanowires due to the intrinsic nonlinearity of metals", New Journal of Physics 15, 013033 (2013).

2011

A. Marini, R. Hartley, A. V. Gorbach, and D. V. Skryabin, ''Surface-induced nonlinearity enhancement in subwavelength rod waveguides", Physical Review A 84, 063839 (2011).

A. Marini, D. V. Skryabin, and B. Malomed, ''Stable spatial plasmon solitons in a dielectric-metal-dielectric geometry with gain and loss", Optics Express 19, 6616 (2011).

D. V. Skryabin, A. V. Gorbach, and A. Marini, ''Surface-induced nonlinearity enhancement of TM-modes in planar subwavelength waveguides", Journal of the Optical Society of America B 28, 109 (2011).

2010

A. Marini, A. V. Gorbach, and D. V. Skryabin, ''Coupled mode approach to surface plasmon polaritons in nonlinear periodic structures", Optics Letters 35, 3532 (2010).

A. Marini and D. V. Skryabin, ''Ginzburg-Landau equation bound to the metal-dielectric interface and transverse nonlinear optics with amplified plasmon polaritons", Physical Review A 81, 033850 (2010).

2009

A. Marini, A. V. Gorbach, D. V. Skryabin, and A. Zayats, ''Amplification of surface plasmon polaritons in the presence of nonlinearity and spectral signatures of threshold crossover", Optics Letters 34, 2864 (2009).

A. Ciattoni, C. Rizza, E. Del Re, and A. Marini, ''Light-induced dielectric structures and enhanced self-focusing in critical photorefractive ferroelectrics", Optics Letters 34, 3295 (2009).

A. Ciattoni, A. Marini, C. Rizza, and E. Del Re, ''Collision and fusion of counterpropagating micrometer-sized optical beams in periodically biased photorefractive crystals", Optics Letters 34, 911 (2009).

2008

A. Ciattoni, E. Del Re, A. Marini, and C. Rizza, ''Wiggling and bending-free micron-sized solitons in periodically biased photorefractives", Optics Express 16, 16867 (2008).

A. Ciattoni, E. Del Re, C. Rizza, and A. Marini, ''Miniaturized bending-free solitons and symmetry restoring in periodically biased photorefractives", Optics Letters 31, 2110 (2008).

Book chapters:

A. Marini and F. Biancalana, ''Quantum Field Theory Analog Effects in Nonlinear Photonic Waveguides" in Odyssey of Light in Nonlinear Optical Fibers: Theory and Applications, CRC Press ISBN978-148-223-613-2 (2015).
FUNDED PROJECTS

ICFOnest+ (Marie Curie Cofund) Postdoctoral Fellowship

Principal investigator under the supervision of Prof F. J. García de Abajo at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain.

2014 - 2 years, ~ 90k euros
Individual Marie Curie Fellowship #746774
OUTNANO

Principal investigator under the supervision of Prof Claudio Conti at CNR-ISC, Institute for Complex Systems, Rome, Italy.

2017 - 2 years, ~ 170k euros
"Rita Levi Montalcini" programme for the recruitment of young researchers

Assistant Professorship fully funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research at the University of L'Aquila, Italy.

2017 - 3 years, ~ 197k euros
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TEACHING

Lectures for the "Advanced Simulation Techniques" class of the postgraduate programme in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of L'Aquila, Italy (18 hours, 2 cfu), academic year 2020/2021.

Lectures for the "Advanced Methods in Condensed Matter Physics" class of the postgraduate programme in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of L'Aquila, Italy (28 hours, 3 cfu), academic year 2021/2022.

Tutorials for "Fisica 2" (Electromagnetism) of the undergraduate programme in Mathematics at the University of L'Aquila, Italy (36 hours, 4 cfu), academic year 2021/2022.

Tutorials for "Elettromagnetismo" (Electromagnetism) of the undergraduate programme in Physics at the University of L'Aquila, Italy (36 hours, 4 cfu), academic year 2021/2022.

Full teaching "Fisica 2" (Electromagnetism) of the undergraduate programme in Industrial Engineering at the University of L'Aquila, Italy (60 hours, 6 cfu), academic year 2021/2022.

Lectures for the "Advanced Simulation Techniques" class of the postgraduate programme in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of L'Aquila, Italy (18 hours, 2 cfu), academic year 2020/2021.

Tutorials for "Fisica 1" (Mechanics and Thermodynamics) of the undergraduate programme in Industrial Engineering at the University of L'Aquila, Italy (30 hours, 3 cfu), academic year 2020/2021.

Full teaching "Fisica 2" (Electromagnetism) of the undergraduate programme in Industrial Engineering at the University of L'Aquila, Italy (60 hours, 6 cfu), academic year 2020/2021.

Tutorials for "Fisica 2" (Electromagnetism) of the undergraduate programme in Industrial Engineering at the University of L'Aquila, Italy (30 hours, 3 cfu), academic year 2020/2021.

Lectures for the ''Advanced Methods in Condensed Matter Physics'' class of the postgraduate programme in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of L’Aquila, Italy (28 hours, 3 cfu), academic year 2019/2020.

Full course ''Fisica 2'' (Electromagnetism) of the undergraduate programme in Industrial Engineering at the University of L’Aquila, Italy (60 hours, 6 cfu), academic year 2019/2020.

Lectures for the ''Spettroscopia'' class (Spectroscopy) of the postgraduate programme in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of L’Aquila, Italy (28 hours, 3 cfu), academic year 2018/2019.

Full course ''Fisica 2'' (Electromagnetism) of the undergraduate programme in Industrial Engineering at the University of L’Aquila, Italy (60 hours, 6 cfu), academic year 2018/2019.

Seminar (1h) ''Ultrafast Plasmonics'' at the IMPRS Doctoral School, Erlangen, academic year 2014/2015.

Tutorials (40h) for the ''EV-1 Vertiefung Experimentalphysik: Atom, Molekulphysik und Quantenoptik'' class (Advanced
Experimental Physics: Atomic, Molecular Physics and Quantum Optics) of the master programme in Physics at the Friedrich
Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, academic years 2012/2013 and 2013/2014.

Tutorials (10h) for the ''Electricity and Magnetism'' class of the undergraduate programme in Physics at the University of
Bath, academic year 2008/2009.

Tutorials (10h) for the ''Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics'' class of the undergraduate programme in Physics at
the University of Bath, academic year 2008/2009.

Andrea Marini

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Associate Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at The University of L'Aquila, Italy.

RESEARCH

Nonlinear Plasmonics

Near-zero-index media

Random metamaterials

Two-dimensional media

Publications

FUNDED PROJECTS

ICFOnest+ (Marie Curie Cofund) Postdoctoral Fellowship

Principal investigator under the supervision of Prof F. J. García de Abajo at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain.

Individual Marie Curie Fellowship #746774
OUTNANO

Principal investigator under the supervision of Prof Claudio Conti at CNR-ISC, Institute for Complex Systems, Rome, Italy.

"Rita Levi Montalcini" programme for the recruitment of young researchers

Assistant Professorship fully funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research at the University of L'Aquila, Italy.

Get a copy of my resume. Or contact me for more info.

Download Resume

TEACHING

Andrea Marini

Personal Research Homepage

Associate Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at The University of L'Aquila, Italy.

RESEARCH

Nonlinear Plasmonics

Near-zero-index media

Random metamaterials

Two-dimensional media

Publications

FUNDED PROJECTS

ICFOnest+ (Marie Curie Cofund) Postdoctoral Fellowship

Principal investigator under the supervision of Prof F. J. García de Abajo at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain.

Individual Marie Curie Fellowship #746774OUTNANO

Principal investigator under the supervision of Prof Claudio Conti at CNR-ISC, Institute for Complex Systems, Rome, Italy.

"Rita Levi Montalcini" programme for the recruitment of young researchers

Assistant Professorship fully funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research at the University of L'Aquila, Italy.

Get a copy of my resume. Or contact me for more info.

Download Resume

TEACHING

Individual Marie Curie Fellowship #746774
OUTNANO