M. Ferrari

Maurizio Ferrari was born in Trento, Italy, in June 25, 1955. He received the Doctor degree in physics from Trento University, Trento, Italy, in 1979/1980. Until 1989, he was as a Researcher in the Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matriaux Luminescents, Lyon, France, and in 1989, he moved to Trento as a Researcher with the CNR. He is currently the Director of Research in the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, CNR, Trento, Italy, where he is also the Head of the CSMFO Laboratory and the Head of the IFN-CNR Trento unit. He is the coauthor of more than 400 publications in international journals, several book chapters, and he is involved in numerous national and international projects concerning glass photonics. He is an OSA, EOS and SIOF member. He was elected in 2013 SPIE Fellow for achievements in synthesis and characterization of rare-earth-doped optical materials. He has been the member of several scientific, program, and steering committees, the Chair of national and international conferences and workshops, the member of evaluation committee for national and foreign research institutions, the Research Director and the jury member of several Ph.D. theses. He is the Referee of several international scientific reviews in physics, photonics, and material science, an Editor of Optical Materials , an Associate Editor of Optical Engineering for Integrated Optics, and an editorial board member of Ceramics, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Journal of Materials , and Indian Journal of Materials Science. His research interests include glass photonics and covers: properties, structure, and processing of glasses, crystals and film for optical applications and photonics; energy transfer, optical, and spectroscopic properties; integrated optics; nanocomposites materials; and confined structures including photonic crystals, waveguides, microcavities, and microresonators.