Dr. Marcello Ferrera
He is currently Associate Professor of Optics and Photonics at the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences (IPaQS) of Heriot-Watt University (United Kingdom). Here, his research team explores the properties of composite materials and devices for application in nanophotonics and quantum optics. He attained his master degree in micro-electronic engineering in 2005 from The University of Palermo (Italy) defending his thesis entitled: "Growth of ferroelectric thin films of barium strontium titanate by pulsed laser deposition and their morphological characterization". This work was developed during a one year internship sponsored by INRS-EMT labs in Canada. During this period he mastered fundamental techniques for the fabrication and the characterization of electro-/magneto- optic thin films. In 2006, he was awarded a scholarship for international students which allowed him to undertake his doctoral studies in the Ultrafast Optical Processing (UOP) group at INRS-EMT, led by Prof. Roberto Morandotti. In 2007, he won the international doctoral fellowship offered by Le Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT) that sponsored his doctoral research focused on low-power nonlinear processes in doped silica glass micro-resonators. In this direction, he obtained remarkable results dealing with multiple-wavelength and broadband light generation, as well as in ultra-fast optical data processing. In 2010, he was among the recipients of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) post-doctoral fellowship, which supported his post-doctoral research at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Here, in the group of Prof. Thomas F. Krauss (Microphotonics group), he was fully dedicated to the numerical modelling and fabrication of silicon-nitride-based high quality factor photonic crystal cavities. In 2012, he won the Marie-Curie IOF fellowship with a project named “ATOMIC” (overall score 96.6) Advanced Transformation Optical Materials for bio-Imaging and light-Concentration. This research line was developed and carried on inside the group of Prof. Vladimir Shalaev at Purdue University. In 2014, Dr. Ferrera was appointed Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in UK.
Dr. Marcello Ferrera is also:
Editorial Board Member of "Scientific Reports" (Nature Publishing group)
Member of The Order of Engineers of Palermo
He is currently Associate Professor of Optics and Photonics at the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences (IPaQS) of Heriot-Watt University (United Kingdom). Here, his research team explores the properties of composite materials and devices for application in nanophotonics and quantum optics. He attained his master degree in micro-electronic engineering in 2005 from The University of Palermo (Italy) defending his thesis entitled: "Growth of ferroelectric thin films of barium strontium titanate by pulsed laser deposition and their morphological characterization". This work was developed during a one year internship sponsored by INRS-EMT labs in Canada. During this period he mastered fundamental techniques for the fabrication and the characterization of electro-/magneto- optic thin films. In 2006, he was awarded a scholarship for international students which allowed him to undertake his doctoral studies in the Ultrafast Optical Processing (UOP) group at INRS-EMT, led by Prof. Roberto Morandotti. In 2007, he won the international doctoral fellowship offered by Le Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT) that sponsored his doctoral research focused on low-power nonlinear processes in doped silica glass micro-resonators. In this direction, he obtained remarkable results dealing with multiple-wavelength and broadband light generation, as well as in ultra-fast optical data processing. In 2010, he was among the recipients of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) post-doctoral fellowship, which supported his post-doctoral research at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Here, in the group of Prof. Thomas F. Krauss (Microphotonics group), he was fully dedicated to the numerical modelling and fabrication of silicon-nitride-based high quality factor photonic crystal cavities. In 2012, he won the Marie-Curie IOF fellowship with a project named “ATOMIC” (overall score 96.6) Advanced Transformation Optical Materials for bio-Imaging and light-Concentration. This research line was developed and carried on inside the group of Prof. Vladimir Shalaev at Purdue University. In 2014, Dr. Ferrera was appointed Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in UK.
Dr. Marcello Ferrera is also:
Editorial Board Member of "Scientific Reports" (Nature Publishing group)
Member of The Order of Engineers of Palermo
