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Riccardo Sapienza
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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
And IMAP takes off! 🚀With an Imperial-built instrument 😜

science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/
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
Morning bake, after so long! #sourdough #academicbaking
September 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
London with the sun!
September 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Nice taking about our work on time-varying media @spie.org
Join our team, we are recruiting! 🫵
August 4, 2025 at 9:01 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...
etopim13.sciencesconf.org
June 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The workshop in Wave propagation and material response in time-varying media is kicking off!

meta4d.co.uk/workshop-on-...
June 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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 conference in Madrid meta4d.co.uk/waves-in-tim...
Or is it Casa de Papel?
May 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Happiness is flour from a water mill
May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Wonderful visit today by Frank Sheffold, talking about complex photonics
May 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Join our lab as part of the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship. We're looking for AI experts to develop computational solutions to our laser-based neuromorphic computing scheme.
lu.ma/encode-proje...
April 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Enjoying the Workshop on metamaterials with extra dimensions, kindly hosted by colleagues at Mathematics, quite a new experience for me ;-)

metamaterials.network/workshop-on-...
April 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I celebrate submission more than success😜 reward the effort 🤟. One more today…
March 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Great to have been part of the roundtable on Sustainable AI at the British embassy in Paris, a central topic for our society.
February 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Big thanks to our team at Imperial Lates, discussing our metamaterials

www.imperial.ac.uk/Stories/Impe...
February 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Good morning! First bake of the 2025
January 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Happy new year! or as AI would say happy NO25
January 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Christmas time…
December 23, 2024 at 4:09 PM
And the crystal is good!
December 7, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Step 3 moulding!
December 7, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Step 2 tempering at 27 deg
December 7, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Step 1: sous-vide melting at 45 deg
December 7, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Chocolate time! Material science at its best: I will follow crystallisation curves and seed crystal growth
December 7, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Waves in time-varying media workshop is back! 🤩 third edition in Madrid at the Consejo Superior de la Investigacion Scientific 20th to 22nd May 2025.
meta4d.co.uk/waves-in-tim... together with
Emanuele Galiffi, Paloma Huidobro, Inigo Liberal, Alejandro Manjavacas, Yonatan Sivan
November 8, 2024 at 4:20 PM