PROF. DANIELE FACCIO

Professor in Quantum Technologies Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies address 1: Advanced Research Centre University of Glasgow 11 Chapel Lane, G11 6EW Glasgow, UK address 2: Kelvin Building School of Physics and Astronomy College of Science and Engineering University of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK daniele.faccio@glasgow.ac.uk Research ID: Google Scholar

BIOGRAPHY

Daniele Faccio is a Royal Academy Chair in Emerging Technologies, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy). He joined the University of Glasgow in 2017 as Professor in Quantum Technologies where he leads the Extreme-Light group and is Director of Research for the School of Physics and Astronomy. He is also adjunct professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson (USA) and fellow of the Optical Society of America. Previously he was at Heriot-Watt University and University of Insubria (Italy). He has been visiting scientist at MIT (USA), Marie-Curie fellow at ICFO, Barcelona (Spain) and EU-ERC fellow 2012 (StG) and 2023 (AdG). He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Physics in 2015, the Royal Society of Edinburgh Senior Public Engagement medal and the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award in 2017. He worked in the optical telecommunications industry for four years before obtaining his PhD in Physics in 2007 at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France). His research, funded by the UK research council EPSRC, DSTL, The Leverhulme Trust, the EU Quantum Flagship program and the Royal Academy of Engineering, focuses on the physics of light, on how we harness light to answer fundamental questions and on how we harness light to improve society.

EDUCATION

Graduate Ph.D, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France (2004 -2007); Prof. J. Tredicce (Advisor)
Undergraduate M.Phil. (Physics) Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton University, UK (1999 -2001)
Undergraduate M.Sc. (Hons. Physics) Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy, (1992 -1998)

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

Professor in Physics Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (2013-2017)
Reader in Physics Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (2010-2013)
Assistant Professor University of Insubria, Italy (2004-2010)
Visiting Professor FORTH Laser Institute, Crete, Greece (2010)
Visiting Scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA (2002)
Research Scientist Pirelli Labs - Optical technologies, Milan, Italy (2003-2004)
Research Scientist Corning, Milan, Italy (2001-2002)

AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy (Ordine della Stella d'Italia, OSI), 2021
Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America (now Optica), 2018
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2017
Royal Society of Edinburgh Senior public Engagement award, 2017
Philip Leverhulme Prize, 2015
Co-director of the Enrico Fermi Summer School, Frontiers of Modern Optics, Varenna, Italy (2010)
Co-director of Summer School on Analogue Gravity, Como, Italy (2010)
Marie Curie Fellowship, awarded by European Community (2009)
Co-director of STELLA, Experimental School in Laser Physics, FORTH Laser Centre, Greece (2008)
Editor, Scientific Reports (2012-2017)
Summer School Lecturer, Optoelectronics - Crete (2006), STELLA experimental school in Laser
Physics - Vilnius (2007), FORTH Laser facility, Crete (2008), ICFO Barcelona (2009)