Address 1:
Advanced Research Centre
University of Glasgow
11 Chapel Lane,
G11 6EW Glasgow, UK
Address 2:
Kelvin Building
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science and Engineering
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
Prof. Daniele Faccio
Address 1:
Advanced Research Centre
University of Glasgow
11 Chapel Lane,
G11 6EW Glasgow, UK
Address 2:
Kelvin Building
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science and Engineering
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
Biography
Daniele Faccio is a Royal Academy Chair in Emerging Technologies, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia (Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy). He joined the University of Glasgow in 2017 as Professor in Quantum Technologies where he leads the Extreme-Light group and is Director of Research for the School of Physics and Astronomy. He is also adjunct professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson (USA) and fellow of the Optical Society of America. Previously he was at Heriot-Watt University and University of Insubria (Italy). He has been visiting scientist at MIT (USA), Marie-Curie fellow at ICFO, Barcelona (Spain) and EU-ERC fellow 2012 (StG) and 2023 (AdG).
He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Physics in 2015, the Royal Society of Edinburgh Senior Public Engagement medal and the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award in 2017. He worked in the optical telecommunications industry for four years before obtaining his PhD in Physics in 2007 at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France). His research is funded by the UK research council EPSRC, DSTL, The Leverhulme Trust, the EU Horizon program and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has worked on high intensity laser physics, optical analogues for black holes and gravity, optics in time-varying media and fundamentals of quantum mechanics.
His research has recently pivoted towards computational imaging and sensing, quantum microscopy and the development of technology for sensing/imaging the human heart and brain.
Education
Graduate Ph.D, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France (2004 -2007); Prof. J. Tredicce (Advisor)
Undergraduate M.Phil. (Physics) Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton University, UK (1999 -2001)
Undergraduate M.Sc. (Hons. Physics) Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy, (1992 -1998)
Previous appointments
Professor in Physics Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (2013-2017)
Reader in Physics Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (2010-2013)
Assistant Professor University of Insubria, Italy (2004-2010)
Visiting Professor FORTH Laser Institute, Crete, Greece (2010)
Visiting Scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA (2002)
Research Scientist Pirelli Labs – Optical technologies, Milan, Italy (2003-2004)
Research Scientist Corning, Milan, Italy (2001-2002)