Professor of Condensed Matter Physics, Department of Physics
e-mail: Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo. 

Alessandro Tredicucci was born in Chiavari (Genoa) in 1968 and graduated in Physics at the University of Pisa in 1992 as a student of the Scuola Normale Superiore, where he was awarded the PhD degree in Physics in 1997.

After spending three years at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill (NJ), in 2000 he became a researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore. In 2003 he moved to the INFM (Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia) as Senior Scientist and to CNR, the Italian National Research Council) in 2009 as Research Director. Since 2014 he has been full professor in the scientific area FIS/03.

Institutional assignments

At the University of Pisa, Professor Tredicucci has been Director of the Interdepartmental Centre for Materials Science and Engineering since 2019, and was Chair of the Physics Area Committee from 2016 to 2020.

Since 2019 he has also been a member of the Executive Council of the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) in Florence and from 2006 to 2014 he was a member of the Scientific Council of the Materials and Devices Department of the Italian CNR.

Scientific and teaching activities

Professor Tredicucci teaches Structure of Matter in the Bachelor’s degree programme in Physics, as well as Fundamentals of Light Matter Interaction and Physics of Photonic Devices in the Master’s degree programme in Physics.

His research activities have mainly concerned the study of nanostructured materials and devices being able to detect, manipulate or produce electromagnetic radiation, and the fundamental mechanisms governing its interaction. His scientific career has developed especially in the field of quantum cascade lasers, culminating in 2002 with the realization of the first THz laser (the region of the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared and microwaves). This pioneering discovery earned him numerous awards, including the Nick Holonyak Jr. prize from the Optical Society of America (of which he has been a Fellow since 2014) and the Giuseppe Occhialini prize from the Institute of Physics and the Italian Physical Society. His current studies involve the development of plasmonic devices in graphene and two-dimensional materials, the understanding of new regimes of radiation-matter interaction at the nanoscale and when coupled to mechanical systems, as well as the application of THz diagnostic techniques in industrial processes, agriculture, etc.

He was in charge of several national and international research projects, including the Advanced Grant SouLMan of the ERC; he has served as Chair of the most important international conferences in his field; he has been active in refereeing and monitoring research, and has been Associate Editor of Applied Physics Letters since 2015.

At the end of 2022, his scientific activities have resulted in more than 280 publications ISI-WOS with about 19000 citations (h-index 62 - source Google Scholar), 16 patents, and more than 100 invited presentations at international conferences.