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Rice University

Engineering Physics Engineering Physics Electrical Engineering Optical Engineering Applied Physics Computational Physics Photonics Nanotechnology

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Alessandro Alabastri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, contributing to the Engineering faculty. He received his BSc in 2007 and MSc in 2009 in Engineering Physics from Politecnico di Milano, specializing in Nano-Optics and Photonics, with his Master's project at the Technical University of Denmark on the optical characterization of metamaterials. In 2014, he earned his PhD in Nanosciences from the Italian Institute of Technology and the University of Genoa, focusing on computational modeling of plasmonic structures. In 2015, he was a Visiting Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Molecular Foundry. He joined Rice University as a Postdoctoral Fellow from 2015 to 2016, followed by a NEWT Postdoctoral Leadership Fellowship from 2016 to 2018, during which he worked on theoretical nanophotonics and solar distillation devices. From 2018 to 2020, he served as Texas Instruments Research Assistant Professor, and in 2020, he was promoted to his current tenure-track Assistant Professor position. He also directs the Applied Physics Graduate Program and is a core member of the Smalley-Curl Institute.