Roberta Ramponi
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Roberta Ramponi
Senior Research Associate, Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
About the Speaker
She has been a researcher at CNR (1980-1992) and a professor of Experimental Physics at Politecnico di Milano (1992-2013 and 2022-2024). From 2013 to 2022, she was the director of the CNR Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies. She has been the president of the European Optical Society (2006-2008) and of the International Commission of Optics (2017-2021). Since 2010, she is a member of the Board of the Stakeholders of the European Technology Platform and Public Private Partnership Photonics21, being vice-president since November 2023. Her research has covered a wide range of activities in the fields of Optics, Photonics, and fs-Laser Micromachining, reported in more than 150 publications.
In particular, she has developed innovative techniques for the fabrication of waveguides in nonlinear crystals, passive and active glasses, and for the accurate characterization of such waveguides; moreover, she has studied the design and realization of all-optical devices for applications to optical communications and of microoptofluidic devices for sensing. In later years, she has been working on the design and realization by femtosecond-laser direct writing of integrated optical chips for quantum information. In 2020, she received the OSA (now OPTICA) Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award. She is a Fellow of OPTICA and of the European Optical Society, an International Fellow of the Chinese Optical Society, and Honorary Member of the European Optical Society.
