Claudio Conti (Ph.D. 2002, ERC StGrant 2008) is Director of the Institute of Complex Systems of the National Research Council (ISC-CNR) and Associate Professor at the Department of Physics of the University Sapienza of Rome, where he founded the Nonlinear Photonics Laboratory.
Short bio
Formerly, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Complex Systems (ISC-CNR) in Rome (IT); New Talent Grant from the Research Center Enrico Fermi; Humboldt fellowship for Experience Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (2011-2013); Principal Investigator of the Starting Independent Research Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), with the project Light and Complexity; Principal Investigator of the ERC Proof of Concept Grant Vanguard (2016) and Principal Investigator of the grant from the Templeton Foundation Generalized Uncertainty Principle and the Photon (2015-2017).
Italian habilitation as a full professor in theoretical (02/B2, 2016) and experimental condensed matter physics (02/B1, 2012 and 2016).
Teaching: Courses in Photonics and Physics at the Faculties of Physics, Engineering, and Medicine of University Sapienza.
Research interests: Experiments, theory, massively parallel computation, and applications of machine learning, in nonlinear physics, optics, photonics, and quantum gravity
C.C. authored more than 210 articles (including 33 Physical Review Letters, 1 Nature, 1 Science, 2 Nature Physics, 4 Nature Communications, and 4 Nature Photonics), and 10 book chapters; contributed to more than 150 international conferences (50 invited talks). CC has more than 8000 citations in Google Scholar (Scopus h-index 39, Google h-index 43, Total Impact Factor > 1000).
Selected invited talks and seminars
2019
Wave complexity and computation, Seminaire Generaux, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB), October 9, Paris (FR), Invited
Deep reservoir computing in tumor cells, Optics at Nanoscale (ONS’19), September 9-11, Anacapri, Italy, Invited
Ising machines and reservoir computing with tumor models, ML-Photonica 2019, August 26-27, Belgrad, Serbia, Invited
Machine learning for quantum and classical devices, SPIE.Optics+Photonics 2019, August 11-15, San Diego, USA, Invited
Tutorial speaker at CIOP 2019, Complexity, topology, and machine learning in nonlinear optics, August 6-9, Xi’an, China
Keynote Speaker at PIERS 2019, Quantum and Classical X-waves with Angular Momentum, June 17-20, Rome, Italy
Multimodal Propagation, Deep Learning, and Optical Neural Networks, PIERS 2019, June 17-20, Rome, Italy, Invited
Machine Learning Photonics (including topological), Workshop on Topological Photonics and Beyond (TPD 2019), Nankai University, June 30-July 3 2019, Tianjin, China, Invited
Deep reservoir computing in tumor cells and Ising machines by spatial light modulators, Artificial Intelligence in nanophotonics (IWANN 2019 workshop), June 12-14 2019, Gran Canaria, Spain, Invited
Plenary Speaker at Waves Cote d’Azur , Waves and Complexity, 4-7 June 2019, Nice, France
Lecturer at the Andalo Winter School on Nonlinear Photonics NLP2019
Lessons on Complex Photonics in GitHub
2018
Nonlinear optics in disordered media and other things, August 21-24, Nonlinear Photonics International Summer School, Novosibirsk (Russia), Invited
Pseudo-quantum gravity with nonlinear optics, 8 February 2018, seminar at NTU, Department of Physics (Singapore)
Replica Symmetry Breaking in Disordered Nonlinear Waves, Advanced Photonics 2018 Congress, ETH Zurich, 2-5 July 2018, Invited
Topological Cascade Lasers, seminar at the University of Ottawa, 24 Jan 2018, and at the Nankai University, 27 Aprile 2019
2017
Topological cascade laser, Optics & Photonics Taiwan, the International Conference, OPTIC 2017, Kaohsiung, 7-9 December 2019, Invited
Complex Photonics, Complexity in Nonlinear Photonics 2017, 25-29 September, Como (IT), Invited
Pseudo-quantum gravity, Workshop Chiral Photonics, Erlangen, September 2017, Invited
Quantum soliton evaporation and other topics, Discrete, Nonlinear and Disordered Optics, DINDOS17, Max Planck Institute of Complex Physics, Dresden, 8-12 May 2017, Invited
Nonlinear optics, optomechanics, and antibacterial coating by graphene and graphene oxide, SPIE Photonics West OPTO 2017, 28 January – 2 February, San Francisco, Invited
Random Lasers, International Workshop on Complex Photonics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 22-24 January 2017, Mumbai, Invited
2016
Nonlinear Gamow Vectors, Nonlinear Waves 2016, June 25-28, 2016, Beijing, CN, Invited
Nonlinear Gamow Vectors, XXXVI Dynamics Days Europe 2016, June 6-10, Corfu, GR, Invited
Complexity of Nonlinear Waves, CHAOS 2016, May 23-26, 2016, London, UK, Invited
Shock waves and Antibacterial Cloaks, CIOP 2016, July 17-20, 2016, Shanghai, CN, Invited
Unconventional Quantum Nonlinear Optics, Fluids of Light Workshop 2016, 17-19 Oct, Edinburgh (UK), Invited
2015
Invited key-speaker at the discussion panel “Future Directions in Nonlinear Optics” of the OSA Nonlinear Optics Technical Group, at Frontier in Optics, Frontier in Optics, 2015, October 18-22, San Jose, California (USA)
Quantum Gravity Simulation and Irreversibility in Nonlinear Optics, Nonlinear Optics (NLO) 2015, July 26-31, Kauai, Hawai (USA), Invited
Optomechanics of Random Media, Photonics North 2015, May 24-26, 2015, Ottawa, CA, Invited
Simulation of Irreversible Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology in Nonlocal Nonlinear Optics, Photonics Middle East Conference 2015, December 13-16, Doha, QA, Invited
Conference organization
Program Chair with Robert W. Boyd of the OSA Nonlinear Optics NLO 2019, 15-19 July, Hawaii (US)
Organizer of the Symposium EP07: Tailored Disorder – Novel Materials for Advanced Optics and Photonics, 2018 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, November 25-30, with H. Cao, S. Mujumdar and C. Zollfrank
Full list of publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nuSdWCAAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
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Contact Info
Scopus, Orcid and all that
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