Andrea Alù

Andrea Alù (born September 27, 1978), is an Italian American scientist and engineer, currently Distinguished Professor and Einstein Professor of Physics at The City University of New York Graduate Center. He is also the founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center. He is known for his contributions to the fields of optics, photonics, plasmonics, and acoustics, most notably in the context of metamaterials and metasurfaces. He has co-authored over 900 journal papers and 40 book chapters, and he holds 15 U.S. patents. Provided by Wikipedia