Alessandro Tredicucci Research Director phone. +39-050-509.424 E-Mail: a.tredicucci@sns.it

Education:
He received the "Laurea" degree (summa cum laude) in physics from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1992, achieving at the same time the "Diploma" in physics of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa; he received the Ph.D. degree (summa cum laude) in physics from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in 1997. His studies there focused on exciton-polariton propagation in confined systems and modifications of light-matter interaction in microcavities.

Research Activity:
In 1997 he joined Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, in the Semiconductor Physics Research department, where he worked on the development of novel quantum cascade lasers with superlattice active regions.
In November 2000 he came back to the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa as assistant professor and in March 2003 he moved to INFM (Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia), now part of CNR, where he currently holds the position of Research Director. His activity is mainly concerned with intersubband devices, particularly for the generation and detection of THz radiation and the investigation of new regimes of light-matter interaction. Alessandro Tredicucci has co-authored more than one hundred journal papers (with over 3000 citations), has given 56 invited talks at international conferences, and holds 15 patents. He was the recipient of the 1999 Gilberto Bernardini award and of the 2003 S. Panizza award for opto-electronics of the Italian Physical Society. He was the recipient of the 2005 S. Campisano prize for condensed matter physics of the CNR and of the 2007 Copernico prize for physics.

Summary report:
Nanostructures: THz quantum cascade lasers, intersubband polaritonics