Eric Le Ru
Professor
Chemical and Physical Sciences
Macdiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and NanoTechnology
New Zealand
Biography
Eric Le Ru studied physics at Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and obtained a PhD in 2002, working at Imperial College London on semiconductor quantum dots for telecom applications. After a one-year postdoctoral position at Imperial College, he moved to New Zealand in 2004 as a postdoctoral fellow of the MacDiarmid institute, working with Pablo Etchegoin at Victoria University of Wellington. He is now Professor in Physics at Victoria.
Research Interest
His research focuses on various aspects, both theoretical and experimental, of nano-photonics, with a particular emphasis on nano-plasmonics; i.e. the study and applications of the optical properties of sub-wavelength (i.e. typically less than 100 nm) metallic objects, and related applications in surface-enhanced spectroscopies (Raman and fluorescence). This work has resulted in over 70 publications since 2004 and was recently complemented by the publication of a book, co-authored with Pablo Etchegoin, on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
