Roberto Morandotti

Roberto Morandotti is a physicist and full Professor, working in the Energy Materials Telecommunications Department of the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS-EMT, Montreal, Canada). The work of his team includes the areas of integrated and quantum photonics, nonlinear and singular optics, as well as terahertz photonics.

Educational background
1993: M.Sc. Physics, University of Genoa 1999: Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow

Professional background
1999-2001: Postdoctoral Researcher, Weizmann Institute of Science 2001-2002: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toronto 2003-2008: Associate Professor, INRS-EMT, Université du Québec 2008 - : Full Professor, INRS-EMT, Université du Québec

Professional recognition, honors and awards

 * Excellence Prize for Scholar Merit, Rotary Association
 * PhD fellowship, Bilateral UK – Israeli Fund
 * Postdoctoral Fellowship, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRSC) (UK)
 * Postdoctoral Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science
 * Marie Curie European Community Fellowship
 * Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto
 * FQRNT (Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies) Strategic Professor
 * Fellow, Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN)
 * Full Member (Fellow), Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
 * Fellow of the OSA (Optical Society), for "seminal contributions to the field of nonlinear optics, in particular for the discovery of discrete optical solitons"
 * Fellow of the SPIE, for "achievements in nonlinear optics and magneto-optics"
 * Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
 * Fellow of the Institute of Physics
 * Fellow of the American Physical Society for "pioneering contributions in discrete optics, nonlinear dynamics, and nonlinear optics in the THz domain"
 * Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "distinguished contributions to the field of nonlinear and quantum optics"
 * Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering for "contributions to integrated nonlinear and quantum optics"
 * NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow
 * NSERC Synergy Award Recipient
 * NSERC Brockhouse Award Recipient
 * Marie-Victorin Award Recipient
 * Urgel-Archambault Award Recipient

Most important scientific contributions

 * 1) Experimental demonstration of discrete solitons and their dynamical properties.
 * 2) Demonstration of Anderson Localisations and band gap structures in waveguide arrays.
 * 3) Kerr spatio-temporal solitons in a planar glass waveguide (light bullets) and liquid crystals, X waves in bi-dispersive media, self-accelerating non-diffractive beams
 * 4) Ultrafast, extremely low power nonlinear optics in glass and semiconductor integrated waveguides
 * 5) Various contributions in the fields of linear and nonlinear optics in the THz Regime: A state of the art high power THz source to probe the nonlinear interaction of intense few-cycle terahertz pulses, demonstration of nonlinear wavelength conversion using THz waves, of new THz characterization techniques, including the first THz Optical Isolator.
 * 6) Demonstration of multiphoton, multidimensional and cluster complex quantum states using optical micro combs

Videos

 * CLEO: 2014 - What's New with QELS- Fundamental Science 2014?
 * Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena Hot Topic - CLEO: 2012
 * Hot Topic CLEO:QELS - Fundamental Science 5 - Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena