Eugenio FAZIO (born 1962) [email protected]
Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l’Ingegneria Via Scarpa, 16 – Building RM009
06.4991.6543
Employment and Education
2012-now: National license of Full Professorship of Experimental Physics of Matter 1989-now: Associate Professor of Experimental Physics
2008-2017: founding partner and CTO of OptSensor srl, spin-off company of Sapienza Università di Roma
2016: visiting researcher at the Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies of the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
2009: visiting professor at the Université de Franche Comté (Besançon – FRANCE)
1993-1999: lecturer of General Physics 1 and General Physics 2 at Sapienza Università di Roma 1997: visiting researcher at the Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya – Terrassa/Barcelona – SPAIN)
1992-1995: lecturer of Quantum Electronics at the University of Perugia
1993: visiting researcher at the Laser Research Center (Vilnius University – LITHUANIA)
1991: post doc at the Laboratoire of Optique Quantique of the Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau Cedex – France)
1989-1999: University Researcher at Sapienza Università di Roma
1987-88: visiting researcher at the Optical Sciences Center of the University of Arizona (Tucson – USA)
1987: laurea in physics at Università “La Sapienza” in Roma. In 1987-88 he was at the Optical Sciences Center of the University of Arizona (USA) and in 1991 at the Laboratoire d’Optique Quantique of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.
Teaching
General Physics 1 (Civil Engineering - Territorial and Environmental Engineering) Optics (Master course for Engineering of Nanotechnologies and for Electronics)
Laboratory of Optical System Design (Master course for Engineering of Nanotechnologies and for Electronics)
Laser-Matter interaction (European Master program of Laser Applications in Dentistry) Physics of Lasers (European Master program of Laser Applications in Dentistry)
Optics 2: nonlinear optics (Master on Quantum Optics and Information Technologies)
Research Activity
The principal topics of his research activities are: nonlinear optics and solitary waves; self- organizing photonic circuits and networks; hardware solutions for stigmergy distributed intelligent systems; optical sensors for biomedical applications; advanced diagnostic tools for Alzheimer and other invalidating diseases; advance reality solutions for medicine and surgery; ultraweak luminescence and biophotons from leaving structures and chemical reactions; structured and
anisotropic media; nanooptics; harmonic generation from bulk and nano-structured media; indoor and outdoor environmental monitoring and pollution detection using innovative optical sensors;
PM10-PM2.5-PM1.0 particulate characterization through spectroscopic light scattering.
National and international appointments and recognitions
He has been editor or member of the editorial boards of the many international journals. At this moment, he is member of the editorial board of the Journal Biomed Communication.
He has organized many conferences as chair: among all, the Optical Microsystems series, Topical meetings of the European Optical Society (7 editions since 2005, every two years) and in 2015
“Fiat Lux”, an Unesco meeting for the International Year of Light, with scientists and philosophers together.
He is vice president of “Associazione Nazionale Fisica e Applicazioni”, the association of the Italian professional physicists.
He is Academician of the “Accademia Angelico-Costantiniana di Scienze ed Arti”.
In 2004 he got the Dragumir Hurmuzescu price from the Romanian Academy of Sciences for his scientific activity on the formation of spatial solitons in photorefractive media.
10 REFERENCES OF THE LAST 5 YEARS
1. A.M. Siani, F. Frasca, M. Di Michele, V. Bonacquisti and E. Fazio, Cluster analysis of microclimate data to optimize the number of sensors for the assessment of indoor environment within museums, Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2018) https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-2021-3
2. M. Alonzo, D. Moscatelli, L. Bastiani, A. Belardini, C. Soci and E. Fazio, All-Optical Reinforcement Learning In Solitonic X-Junctions, Scientific Reports 8, 5716-1/7 (2018)
3. E.Fazio, V. Bonacquisti, M. Di Michele, F Frasca, A. Chianese and A.M. Siani, CleAir Monitoring System for Particulate Matter: A Case in the Napoleonic Museum in Rome, Sensors 17, 2076-1/12 (2017)
4. E. Fazio, A. Belardini, L. Bastiani, M. Alonzo, M. Chauvet, N.I. Zheludev and C. Soci, Novel paradigm for integrated photonics circuits: transient interconnection, Proc. SPIE 10130 (Next-Generation Optical Communication:
Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems VI) 1013006-1/10 (2017)
5. E. Fazio, G. Gualandi, S. Palleschi, S. Footitt and L. Silvestroni, Optically functionalized biomorphism of bean seeds, Journal of Luminescence 182C, 189-195 ( 2017)
6. S. Footitt, S. Palleschi, E. Fazio, R. Palomba, W. Finch-Savage and L. Silvestroni, Ultraweak Photon Emission from the Seed Coat in Response to Temperature and Humidity – A Potential Mechanism for Environmental Signal Transduction in the Soil Seed Bank, Photochemistry and Photobiology 92, 678-687 (2016)
7. A. Belardini, M. Centini, G. Leahu, E. Fazio, C. Sibilia, J. Haus and A. Sarangan, Second Harmonic Generation on Self-Assembled Tilted Gold Nanowires, Faraday Discussions 178, 357-362 (2014)
8. E. Fazio, A. Zaltron, A. Belardini, N. Argiolas and C. Sada, Influence of iron doping on spatial soliton formation and fixing in lithium niobate crystals, Optical Materials 37, 175-180 (2014)
9. E. Fazio, S. Popescu, A. Petris, F. Devaux, M. Ragazzi, M. Chauvet and V.I. Vlad, Use of quasi-local photorefractive response to generated superficial self-written waveguides in lithium niobate, Opt. Express 21, 25834-25840 (2013) 10. T. Fiumara and E. Fazio, Design of a refractive index sensor based on surface soliton waveguides, J. Opt. 15 (12),
125501_1-6 (2013)
