Members

Andrea Melloni

Professor, Group Leader

OSA Fellow, he is Full Professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria - Politecnico di Milano - where he leads the group of Photonic Devices and teaches the master course “Photonics Devices”. With a background in microwaves, his field of...

Francesco Morichetti

Professor, Laboratory Head

Francesco Morichetti is associate professor since 2020,  he teaches "Onde Elettromagnetiche e Mezzi trasmissivi" and "Dispositivi per la trasmissione dell'informazione" both at Bachelor and master degree level. He received a Master’s degree (cum laude) in telecommunication engineering in 2001 and...

Prof. Frédéric Grillot

Visiting Professor

Frédéric Grillot is currently a Full Professor at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (France) and a Research Professor at the University of New-Mexico (USA). His research interests include, but are not limited to, advanced quantum confined devices using III-V compound semiconductors, quantum dots quantum dashes, light-emitters based on intersubband transitions, non-classical light, nonlinear dynamics and optical chaos in semiconductor lasers systems as well as microwave and silicon photonics applications.

Rachel Morgan

Assistant Professor

Rachel Morgan received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Physics from MIT in 2018. She then continued in the Aerospace Engineering department at MIT for an M.S. (2020) and PhD (2023), researching optics and integrated photonics for space systems. She...

Oscar Adrian Jimenez Gordillo

Early stage researcher

Oscar got his M.Sc. degree in Optics at Mexico's National Institute for Optics, Astrophysics, and Electronics (INAOE). He then worked as a Research Assistant at the Lipson Nanophotonics Group (Columbia University), where he obtained his Ph.D. developing novel fiber to...

Gabriele Cavicchioli

PhD Student

Gabriele (1997) achieved the B. Sc. at Politecnico di Milano in Engineering Physics in 2019 with an experimental thesis on the fabrication of photonic devices through femtosecond laser micromachining and the M. Sc. in Engineering Physics in 2021. He is...

Seyedmohammad Seyedinnavadeh

PhD Student

SeyedMohammad received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. both in Telecommunications engineering at Shahid Beheshti university (2018), and Politecnico di Milano (cum laude, 2021). He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) in Politecnico di...

Francesca Grossi

Ph.D. student

Francesca received her B.Sc and M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering at "Sapienza Università di Roma", with a focus on fabrication processes and characterization of devices for micro- and nanoelectronics. Then she obtained a junior research fellowship at the department of Electronics...

Andres Ivan Martinez Rojas

Ph.D. student

Andres (1997) did his bachelor's at “Pontificia Universidad Javeriana” in electronics engineering with an emphasis in Communication Systems. He obtained the M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering at Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on plasmonic photodetectors. In March 2022 he started...

Samuele De Gaetano

Ph.D. student

Samuele joined the group as a Ph.D. student in September 2023. He graduated with an M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering with a thesis on control electronics for programmable photonic circuits.

Sara Zaminga

Visiting Ph.D. student

Sara is a visiting Ph.D. student from Prof. Frédéric Grillot's group at Télécom Paris university.

Lorenzo Zerboni

Research Fellow

Lorenzo got his M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2023. He is currently a research fellow at the Photonic Devices Group working on free-space optical communications.

Flavio Novelli

M. Sc. student

Flavio received his bachelor's degree in Computer science and telecommunication engineering in 2021 at Politecnico di Milano. He's now a master student in Telecommunication engineering (following the microwaves and photonics track) and he's working, in the Photonic devices group, on...

Francesco Sances

M. Sc. student

Francesco got his bachelor degree in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2021. He is currently a M.Sc. student in Computer Science and Engineering and he is working on his master thesis in the Photonic Devices Group at the...

Seyed Mahdi

M.Sc. student

Seyed Mahdi received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 2018 at Sharif University of Technology. He's now a master student in Telecommunication engineering (photonics track).

Emanuele Parrinello

M.S., Collaborator

He graduated in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in 2009. He worked at STMicroelectronics form 2009 to 2013 in the Technology R&D division focusing on internal CAD development and pilot projects. He joined Filarete S.r.l. in 2013 as Software...