Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, exploring light at the nanoscale, trying to make sense of the world, nanophotonic enthusiast - proud dad of 2https://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3mdkmm7hyek2nNews from the lab! 🤩 Is it possible to switch a material from being an absorber to an amplifier just by changing the phase of light? By treating a thin film of ITO as a time-varying medium, we achieved 400% amplification and 80% absorption within the same structure. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-025-01833-829 Jan 2026 10:51 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdkmm7hyek2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3mbrwtf4s7s2yInteresting article on UK academia and its financial pressure by @milespadgett.bsky.social and @antonmuscatelli.bsky.social https://wonkhe.com/blogs/a-more-focused-research-system-does-not-by-itself-solve-structural-deficits/06 Jan 2026 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbrwtf4s7s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3mbqjibdhak2vJoin our team at Imperial College London! 🚀 I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher in time-varying metamaterials and ultrafast structured light in space and time. 👉 https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPX643/research-assistant-associate 🔹 Deadline: 31st January 2026 #Photonics #Postdoc #Physics #Metamaterials #ScienceJobs06 Jan 2026 08:21 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbqjibdhak2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3mblqcdwf7k2pCannot agree more https://profserious.substack.com/p/my-new-year-wishes-for-universities04 Jan 2026 10:40 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mblqcdwf7k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3m6fnbndv422oIt was a great honor to step on the "aula Rostagni" @unipd.bsky.social Università degli Studi di Padova, and give a talk, in the same place where 25 years before I was defending my MSci thesis... If you had asked me then I would never have guessed that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L_xeX511_o24 Nov 2025 20:14 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6fnbndv422ohttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3m3hcuxzdd22aThe life of a PhD student is not only in the lab, Dimitrie has explored the boundary between innovation, technology and policy. All this while completing his PhD last week! 🍾 https://physicsworld.com/a/bridging-the-gap-between-scientists-policy-makers-and-industry-to-build-the-quantum-ecosystem/18 Oct 2025 07:58 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3hcuxzdd22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3m2cg25yiik2uMetamaterials right? 😜 https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-information-or-metamaterials-our-predictions-for-this-years-nobel-prize-for-physics/03 Oct 2025 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2cg25yiik2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3m26wvteevc2dDo not miss John’s interview on metamaterials https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2025/10/01/john-pendry-the-physics-of-invisibility02 Oct 2025 06:37 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3m26wvteevc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lzraw5dgrc2wAnthony made this grest video to explain what we discovered in https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60159-9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMvBzHb-2BE26 Sep 2025 19:59 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzraw5dgrc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lzncyqai2k2eWhat a visionary Man Ray was! nyer.cm/nE3Yl5y https://nyer.cm/nE3Yl5y25 Sep 2025 06:25 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzncyqai2k2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lzlftwkvz22xAnd IMAP takes off! 🚀With an Imperial-built instrument 😜 science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/24 Sep 2025 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzlftwkvz22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lzaz7qxe4k26Weekend baking, bomboloni sourdough, recipe by Maurizio Leo https://www.theperfectloaf.com/naturally-leavened-bomboloni-doughnuts/20 Sep 2025 08:58 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzaz7qxe4k26https://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lyka2duojc2jMorning bake, after so long! #sourdough #academicbaking11 Sep 2025 07:29 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyka2duojc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3ly6efputts2bLondon with the sun!06 Sep 2025 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly6efputts2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lxzentwpik2osuper Jack!! such an exciting project! 🤩 [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2025 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxzentwpik2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lxcbicv2nk2cOne week left to apply! [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2025 10:09 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxcbicv2nk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lwlrf6h2c22xHow scientist are responding to the dismantling of the scientific system in US, to preserve integrity and truth https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea932817 Aug 2025 11:22 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwlrf6h2c22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lw24gohksk2oDo you know how university finances works? https://profserious.substack.com/p/understanding-university-finances?triedRedirect=true10 Aug 2025 10:52 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw24gohksk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lvm3nqz54c2nNice taking about our work on time-varying media @spie.org Join our team, we are recruiting! 🫵04 Aug 2025 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvm3nqz54c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lvg7bm6a6c2zTaking off for SPIE Optics+Photonics in San Diego, if you are there and want to meet just let me know! Or come to my talk on Monday @spie.org02 Aug 2025 12:49 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvg7bm6a6c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3luuktnv7q22jhttps://x.com/theeconomist/status/1948765220186316830?s=46&t=ZRsR20nVxk4GTb-EjFlYrw26 Jul 2025 12:28 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3luuktnv7q22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3luleeqgwpc2jJoin our team to work on ultrafast spectroscopy of time-varying metamaterials, within our project meta4d.co.uk more details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNZ308/research-assistant-associate22 Jul 2025 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3luleeqgwpc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3ltjc2i7ua223New paper from the lab, @razimantv.bsky.social, Paco Rodriguez and team found out surface plasmon polariton can be excitated in time-modulated media! arxiv.org/abs/2507.05126 https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.0512609 Jul 2025 07:27 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltjc2i7ua223https://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3ls36hqaxf22fGreat 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.org20 Jun 2025 23:20 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls36hqaxf22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lrsdkxhxuc2cSo excited to get the chance to explore light interaction with synthetically moving metamaterials 💡🏃 supported by @erc.europa.eu via the #ERCAdG LUMINOUS! https://media.tenor.com/K88FeHa0bFEAAAAC/rugby-yay.gif?hh=225&ww=49817 Jun 2025 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrsdkxhxuc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lraheiwo522jThe workshop in Wave propagation and material response in time-varying media is kicking off! https://meta4d.co.uk/workshop-on-wave-propagation-and-material-response-in-time-varying-media10 Jun 2025 08:17 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lraheiwo522jhttps://bsky.app/profile/riccard0.bsky.social/post/3lr6hat7yoc2nWonderful to host Prof Anne L’Hullier, discussing the first observations of high-harmonic generation which gave her the Nobel prize in 202309 Jun 2025 13:10 +0000at://did:plc:ffoppz2ql3uvle6fmsdsfb4p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr6hat7yoc2n