Matteo Clerici

Biography

Matteo received the Master degree (07/2006, 100/100 cum laude) and PhD (02/2010) in Physics from the Insubria University (Como, Italy). There, he worked in the group led by Prof. Di Trapani on nonlinear optics research themes, in collaboration with Profs. Degiorgio's (University of Pavia, Italy) and Lugiato's (Insubria) groups. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow for CNISM (2009-2010, Italy), working on extreme phase-matching through conical waves in the high-order harmonic generation process, in collaboration with Profs. Biegert's (ICFO, Spain) and Di Trapani's groups. He has been PEEE FQRNT Research Fellow (2011-2012) and Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow (2012-2014) in the group led by Prof. Morandotti, at INRS-EMT, in Canada. There, Matteo conducted research on plasma physics, Terahertz broadband generation and detection, bulk second- and third-order nonlinear effects and quantum optics. In 2014 he returned to Europe, at Heriot-Watt University, for the last year of the Marie Curie fellowship, and worked in the group led by Prof. Faccio continuing his research activities on nonlinear optics, imaging and ultrafast phenomena. Since October 2015 Matteo is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Engineering of the University of Glasgow (UK), where he has established an independent research group: UNO (Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics), dedicated to the study of time-resolved nonlinear and quantum optical effects.

Research Interest

Nonlinear optics. Frequency conversion and nonlinear light-matter interaction in both free space and integrated configurations, in perturbative and non-perturbative regimes. Quantum optics. Development of novel schemes for the generation and application of nonclassical states of light, both in free space and integrated platforms. Terahertz photonics. Novel schemes for the generation, detection and imaging of terahertz radiation. Study of light-matter interaction with terahertz fields. Novel applications of intense terahertz pulses. Plasma physics. Triggering and guiding of electric currents with optical pulses