Postdoc in Thermal Photonics at @ICFOnians, "La Caixa" Postdoc Junior Leader Fellow @BecariosFLC. Optica Foundation Challenge 2022 Awardee @OpticaWorldwide.
Barcelona, Spain
Joined October 2014
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Some good news! Thanks to my mentor @t_papadakis for the wise guidance and to the interview committee for sticking with me when my connection dropped mid-interview! On to good things :)
Congrats to our Michela @micpicardi for winning the la Caixa postdoctoral fellowship! @BecariosFLC @ICFOnians
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Check this out! Our tutorial on dynamic modulation of thermal radiation is now published! Hopefully it provides a nice introduction to anyone who recently got into the field, like myself! :)
aip.scitation.org/doi/10.106…
@t_papadakis
I'm very excited about this award! Big thanks to @OpticaWorldwide for believing in project THUNDER. I can't wait to show you all the cool ideas @t_papadakis and I have to shake the thermal photonics world!
#OpticaFoundation20th
Scrolling through the list of winners and discovering that my friend and amazing scientist Michela is one of the recipients of this great prize!! 🤯 Congratulations @micpicardi and very well deserved! ✨ @ICFOnians #OpticaFoundation20th #photonics
Michela Picardi retweeted
We show a subwavelength integrated coupler realised inducing a Janus dipole in a silicon nanocylinder. The cylinder, placed between identical waveguides, selectively couples to only one of them. @KingsNanoOptics @KingsNMES @LondonNanotech @micpicardi ow.ly/MfSF30skkcv
Michela Picardi retweeted
Our Janus dipole being used as was originally intended! :) aip.scitation.org/doi/10.106… @micpicardi @JackKingers10 @KingsNanoOptics
Michela Picardi retweeted
New Physics 🧵! Ludwig Boltzmann was not just a father of Statistical Physics but also a master of Thermodynamics. That’s how he got his name on the Stefan-Boltzmann law. If you allow me, I would love to walk you through a magic moment in physics history. /1
Very excited about this award! My gratitude goes to the scientific committee, the ambassador, @ilCircoloBazaar and @aisuk_info!
As a note to myself: maybe next time let's try not to be exactly between the two tallest people in the picture!
Happening today! #ItalyMadeMe awards for Italian researchers operating in the UK: a way to promote networks and partnerships between Italian and British scientific communities 🇮🇹🇬🇧@aisuk_info
Of course I'm joking @carlosparaciari, it would be amazing to share another photo opportunity like this with you and @GianniJacca!
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Growing up in Naples means I knew exactly the level of drama that would be sparked by telling my mum I dreamt of my late grandad putting a handful of coins in my pocket. Each with a number inscribed on. And that when I woke up I couldn't remember any of the numbers.
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Michela Picardi retweeted
Congratulations Professor Anatoly Zayats!
Granted by @AvHStiftung, the Humboldt Research Award is awarded to internationally leading researchers whose discoveries have had a lasting effect on their discipline.
Find out more 👇
@KCL_Physics
bit.ly/3h4IZlR
If you could somehow use violence against a single piece of software, which would you choose and why Windows troubleshooting?
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@BloomandWild hey, I've got a box of flowers delivered here for someone who does not live here! I've tried every other door in the building and it does not belong to anyone here... What do I do?
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Well done @sinuheperea, nice one!
Spin-momentum locking —the wavenumber (hence wavelength and direction) of guided modes determines the polarization of its evanescent tails— can be generalised to lossy waveguides with complex wavenumber! Polarisation-loss locking?! Great work @sinuhe_perea arxiv.org/abs/2102.06680
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Michela Picardi retweeted
Turns out one can place a cold spot ANYWHERE near a nanoantenna and freely move it around by tuning the illuminating polarisations! We map polarisations in the Poincare sphere to spatial coldspot locations. Great work by my new PhD student Alex Vernon. arxiv.org/abs/2103.02544
I'm very proud to have contributed to this excellent piece of science by @JackKingers10. Have a look at it for new insights into the wonderful realm of magnetic dipoles!
New research published in @NanoLetters from @JackKingers10, @micpicardi & @pakrodfor -@KCL_Physics
'Levitating nanoparticles using light: conveyor belts of the future'
read more: bit.ly/LCNNanoConveyors
#nanotechnology #photonics
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