Roberto Morandotti

Roberto Morandotti is a Professor and Group Leader in the Energy Materials Telecommunications Department at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS-EMT), Varennes. He received his MS in physics from the University of Genova in 1993, and his PhD in electronics engineering from the University of Glasgow, under the supervision of Stewart Aitchison. He conducted postdoctoral research with Yaron Silberberg at the Weizmann Institute of Science and with Stewart Aitchison at the University of Toronto. He joined INRS-EMT in 2003, where he has since established an internationally recognized research program. His research interests span integrated photonics for quantum technologies and machine-learning applications, as well as terahertz science and its applications.

He has served as Chair and Technical Committee Member at numerous Optica-, IEEE-, and SPIE-sponsored conferences and was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Photonics Society. His contributions to graduate education and mentorship have been recognized by the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies and INRS.

Morandotti holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (2016–2030) and is a Fellow of Optica, the Royal Society of Canada, the Engineering Institute of Canada, AAAS, IEEE, APS, SPIE, and IoP. His awards/honors include the Max Born Award, the NSERC Synergy Award, the NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering, the Prix Marie-Victorin, the Prix Urgel-Archambault, the Leadership in Research Award of the Université du Québec, and the IEEE Quantum Electronics Award, and the NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship.