Prof. Giuseppe Della Valle (Politecnico Milano, Italy) hdelivered a seminar at the University of Brescia on Monday 15 April 2024 entitled «The Avenue of Plasmonics: From Cathedral Glasses to Ultrafast Nanophotonics».

Biography. Giuseppe Della Valle is an Associate Professor at the Physics Department of the Politecnico di Milano where he teaches courses of General Physics, Nano-Optics, and Plasmonics. His research is devoted to both theoretical and experimental activities in Physics and Photonics, including the study of micro/nano-structured photonic media, the design and demonstration of photonic chips for quantum simulations, the modeling of hot-carrier dynamics in nanomaterials, the development of active photonic devices and nonlinear and ultrafast metasurfaces. He has co-authored more than 140 papers published in peer-referred international journals, several book contributions, and about 40 invited communications at international conferences. He is the coordinator of the H2020 METAFAST project (“Metasurfaces for ultrafast light structuring”) https://www.metafast-h2020.eu/.