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Andrea Alù

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Einstein Professor of Physics at the Advanced Science Research Center at the City College of New York Graduate Center

Dr. Andrea Alù, Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Photonics Initiative at CUNY, is renowned for bridging physics and electrical engineering. As an Einstein Professor and co-PI of NewFoS, his groundbreaking work in photonic metamaterials has earned him the prestigious IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, celebrating his transformative contributions and visionary leadership in advancing photonics.