Andrea Alù is the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He will be presenting the Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science on Thursday, December 1, at the 2016 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting in Boston.

Alù is a leader in the areas of nano-optics, metamaterials, and plasmonics. He and his group have introduced the concept of cloaking and low-scattering objects and sensors using metasurfaces. They have also presented groundbreaking advances in the realization and use of nanoclusters and metamaterials to realize optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas, ultrathin broadband circular polarizers, and enhanced optical magnetic response. Alù has also introduced hybrid metasurfaces based on multiple-quantum-well substrates for giant, concentrated nonlinear response at mid-infrared frequencies, and he has initiated the concept and realization of magnetic-free integrated isolators and circulators for sound, radio waves, and light based on mechanical motion and temporal modulation.

He received the 2016 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering, 2015 National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award, 2014 IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Outstanding Young Engineer Award, 2013 Optical Society of America (OSA) Adolph Lomb Medal, 2011 Issac Koga Gold Medal (URSI), and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, IEEE, and OSA. Alù has written more than 320 papers and has edited one book.