Three of the four NANO-GLASS project’s early-stage researchers (ESRs) are currently undertaking their second secondment at Corning’s Sullivan Park Research and Development facility in NY, USA. Alessia Mezzadrelli (ESR2), Davide Rizzotti (ESR3), and Susana Plascencia (ESR4) have embarked on this exciting journey.
Alessia Mezzadrelli recently made her debut as a NANOGLASS early stage researcher at the international stage by participating in the NANOP 2023 (Nanophotonics and Micro/Nano Optics International Conference), which was held in Barcelona from November 27 to 29.
Iliyan Karadzhov, early-stage researcher of the NANO-GLASS project (ESR1), attended the 69th American Vacuum Society (AVS) International Symposium & Exhibition. The event was held at Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, between 5-10 November 2023. Karadzhov presented a poster in the Advanced Surface Engineering section. The poster, entitled “Multifunctional optical surfaces using scalable nanostructuring”, offered an overview of his present Individual Research Project (IRP), focused on finding new ways to nanotexture optical glass to confer several useful properties on it at once. Besides presenting the poster, the ESR1 was able to attend talks on spectroscopic ellipsometry, thin films, surface science and technology.
The arrival of November has brought a double academic milestone for the NANO-GLASS project. Two of its early-stage researchers (ESRs), Alessia Mezzadrelli and Susana Plascencia, presented their respective thesis proposals. The presentations were held on November 3rd and November 6th. The presentations provided a public platform for the two young researchers to share their research and plans to achieve their individual research projects (IRP) goals.
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Davide Rizzotti (ESR3) participated in the “School of non-linear optics in fibers and integrated optics“. The 5-days course took place in Cargèse, in the west coast of the French island of Corsica from 22 to 28 October. A total of 61 students attended the 2023 edition of the school.
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Davide Rizzotti, NANO-GLASS project early-stage researcher 3 (ESR3), presented his thesis proposal on Tuesday 12th September. Rizzotti’s thesis is entitled “Fiberized Quantum Photon Generators and Processors“.
The recipients of the 2023 edition of the Royal Spanish Society of Physics-BBVA Foundation awards were made public on September 25. The NANO-GLASS project coordinator, Valerio Pruneri, has been one of the eight awardees. Pruneri was named the recipient of the Physics, Innovation and Technology award. The jury of the award, which is conferred annually, aknowledged his “outstanding international scientific and technological contributions at the intersection of materials physics and photonics”.
NANO-GLASS has released a new short video that highlights the secondments of our Early Stage Researchers (ESRs).
Iliyan Karadzhov is back in the USA. This June, the Early Stage Researcher (ESR1) started his second secondment period at Corning Incorporated. He will be working again at Corning’s Sullivan Park Research and Development facility for the next six months.
LuxQuanta, an ICFO spin-off, has recently joined NANO-GLASS project as partner organization. The company will participate in the project by hosting part of the next secondments of Susana Plascencia (ESR4). Plascencia will spent 3 months of secondment at LuxQuanta where she will be supervised by Dr. Sebastian Etcheverry, Chief Technnology Officer (CTO) & co-founder of the spin-off.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement nº 956419