Riccardo Sapienza
@riccard0.bsky.social
Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, exploring light at the nanoscale, trying to make sense of the world, nanophotonic enthusiast - proud dad of 2
The life of a PhD student is not only in the lab, Dimitrie has explored the boundary between innovation, technology and policy. All this while completing his PhD last week! 🍾
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Bridging the gap between scientists, policy makers and industry to build the quantum ecosystem – Physics World
Elizabeth Pasatembou and Dimitrie Cielecki discuss their experience of doing science policy engagement during their PhDs
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October 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The life of a PhD student is not only in the lab, Dimitrie has explored the boundary between innovation, technology and policy. All this while completing his PhD last week! 🍾
physicsworld.com/a/bridging-t...
physicsworld.com/a/bridging-t...
Do not miss John’s interview on metamaterials www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
John Pendry: the physics of invisibility
Our podcast on science and technology. This week, theoretical physicist John Pendry explains the mind-bending science of metamaterials
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October 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Do not miss John’s interview on metamaterials www.economist.com/podcasts/202...
Anthony made this grest video to explain what we discovered in www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Help! We Broke the Speed of Light!
YouTube video by Physics with Tony
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September 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Anthony made this grest video to explain what we discovered in www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMvB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMvB...
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Weekend baking, bomboloni sourdough, recipe by Maurizio Leo www.theperfectloaf.com/naturally-le...
September 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Weekend baking, bomboloni sourdough, recipe by Maurizio Leo www.theperfectloaf.com/naturally-le...
Morning bake, after so long! #sourdough #academicbaking
September 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Morning bake, after so long! #sourdough #academicbaking
London with the sun!
September 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
London with the sun!
super Jack!! such an exciting project! 🤩
Congrats to Dr Jack Gartside on his ERC Starting Grant! 🙌
His project MORPHON is building brain-inspired computers that learn using light - not electricity. A low-carbon leap with big implications for AI. 🧠💡
Read more: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268033/...
@erc.europa.eu #ERCStG
His project MORPHON is building brain-inspired computers that learn using light - not electricity. A low-carbon leap with big implications for AI. 🧠💡
Read more: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268033/...
@erc.europa.eu #ERCStG
Imperial celebrates €10million European grant success | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Imperial is celebrating significant European grant success with nine highly prestigious funding awards from the European Research Council (ERC).
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September 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
super Jack!! such an exciting project! 🤩
One week left to apply!
August 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
One week left to apply!
Reposted by Riccardo Sapienza
How scientist are responding to the dismantling of the scientific system in US, to preserve integrity and truth
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Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
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August 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
How scientist are responding to the dismantling of the scientific system in US, to preserve integrity and truth
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Do you know how university finances works?
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Understanding University Finances
... a very short guide
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August 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Do you know how university finances works?
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Taking off for SPIE Optics+Photonics in San Diego, if you are there and want to meet just let me know! Or come to my talk on Monday @spie.org
August 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Taking off for SPIE Optics+Photonics in San Diego, if you are there and want to meet just let me know! Or come to my talk on Monday @spie.org
Reposted by Riccardo Sapienza
The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to congratulate Professor Michele Dougherty on her appointment as the first female Astronomer Royal. 🔭💫🪐
Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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July 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to congratulate Professor Michele Dougherty on her appointment as the first female Astronomer Royal. 🔭💫🪐
Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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Join our team to work on ultrafast spectroscopy of time-varying metamaterials, within our project meta4d.co.uk more details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ308/r...
Research Assistant/Associate at Imperial College London
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July 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Join our team to work on ultrafast spectroscopy of time-varying metamaterials, within our project meta4d.co.uk more details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ308/r...
New paper from the lab, @razimantv.bsky.social, Paco Rodriguez and team found out surface plasmon polariton can be excitated in time-modulated media! arxiv.org/abs/2507.05126
Surface Plasmon Polariton Excitation in Time-modulated Media
Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are central to application areas such as sensing, energy harvesting, and nanoscale optics, and are typically excited via spatial structuring -- an approach lacking dy...
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July 9, 2025 at 7:27 AM
New paper from the lab, @razimantv.bsky.social, Paco Rodriguez and team found out surface plasmon polariton can be excitated in time-modulated media! arxiv.org/abs/2507.05126
Great to be at ETOPIM13 in New York, wonderful workshop, thank you Andrea Alù and Emil Prodan. See you at the next edition in 2028...
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June 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Great to be at ETOPIM13 in New York, wonderful workshop, thank you Andrea Alù and Emil Prodan. See you at the next edition in 2028...
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etopim13.sciencesconf.org
So excited to get the chance to explore light interaction with synthetically moving metamaterials 💡🏃 supported by
@erc.europa.eu via the #ERCAdG LUMINOUS!
@erc.europa.eu via the #ERCAdG LUMINOUS!
a group of minions are standing next to each other and they are laughing and saying yay
ALT: a group of minions are standing next to each other and they are laughing and saying yay
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June 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
So excited to get the chance to explore light interaction with synthetically moving metamaterials 💡🏃 supported by
@erc.europa.eu via the #ERCAdG LUMINOUS!
@erc.europa.eu via the #ERCAdG LUMINOUS!
The workshop in Wave propagation and material response in time-varying media is kicking off!
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June 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The workshop in Wave propagation and material response in time-varying media is kicking off!
meta4d.co.uk/workshop-on-...
meta4d.co.uk/workshop-on-...
Wonderful to host Prof Anne L’Hullier, discussing the first observations of high-harmonic generation which gave her the Nobel prize in 2023
June 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Wonderful to host Prof Anne L’Hullier, discussing the first observations of high-harmonic generation which gave her the Nobel prize in 2023
Some interesting ideas, and a reminder of never stopping questioning how we do and organise science
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Rules all PIs should follow
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June 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Some interesting ideas, and a reminder of never stopping questioning how we do and organise science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...