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Roberto Morandotti (29 November 1967) is a physicist with a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, working in the Energy Materials Telecommunications Department of the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique. The work of his team includes the areas of integrated and quantum photonics, nonlinear and singular optics, and terahertz photonics.

Educational Background
1993: M.Sc. Physics, University of Genoa (Italy)

1999: Ph.D. Electronics Engineering, University of Glasgow (Scotland)

Professional Background
1996-1999: PhD, University of Glasgow (Scotland)

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 - 	 Professor, INRS-EMT, Université du Québec

Professional Recognitions, Honors and Awards

 * Excellence Prize for Scholar Merit, Rotary Association, 1986
 * PhD fellowship, Bilateral UK – Israeli Fund, 1996–1998
 * Postdoctoral Fellowship, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRSC) (UK), 1999
 * Postdoctoral Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science, 2000-2001
 * Marie Curie European Community Fellowship, 2001
 * Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2002
 * FQRNT (Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies) Strategic Professor, 2003-2008
 * Fellow, Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN), 2010
 * Full Member (Fellow), Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, 2010
 * E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow 2011
 * Fellow, OSA (Optical Society of America), for “seminal contributions to the field of nonlinear optics, in particular for the discovery of discrete optical solitons”, 2011
 * Fellow, SPIE, for “for achievements in nonlinear optics and magneto-optics”, 2012
 * Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 2012

Most Important Scientific Contributions

 * 1) Experimental demonstration of discrete solitons and their dynamical properties: Opened up one of the most prolific fields of research in nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear integrated optics of the last decade.
 * 2) The band gap structure of waveguide arrays: Leading to a new generation of “affordable” Meta material-like structures.
 * 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) The dawn of 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 and the demonstration of the first THz Optical Isolator

Comments on Current Scientific Developments

 * 1) CLEO: 2014 - What's New with QELS- Fundamental Science 2014?


 * 1) Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena Hot Topic - CLEO: 2012


 * 1) Hot Topic CLEO:QELS - Fundamental Science 5 - Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena


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