Texas ECE assistant professor Emanuele Galiffi has received the Nanophotonics Early Career Award. The award acknowledges four early career scientists for their accomplishments, giving them recognition for their outstanding work in the field of nanophotonics.

Galiffi was selected for “development of fundamental theoretical frameworks focusing on time-varying media, metamaterials, and low-symmetry nanophotonic platforms.”

Emanuele Galiffi is an assistant professor and a Fellow of Silicon Laboratories Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering in the Chandra Family Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

His group focuses on theoretical research in ultrafast wave phenomena in active and time-varying materials, ranging from the multiscale modelling of nonequilibrium phenomena under extreme optical pumping to macroscopic electromagnetics, polaritonics and quantum electrodynamics in time-varying systems as well as their applications to wave amplification, frequency conversion and analog computation. He also works on polaritons and mechanical waves in extremely low-symmetry materials and metasurfaces.