Onofrio M. Marago

I studied Physics at the University of Pisa (Italy) and received a DPhil in Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford (UK), working on Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluidity of ultra-cold atoms. In Oxford, I was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship and a Junior Research Fellowship from Linacre College. Since 2002 I work at the Italian National Research Council at Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici (CNR-IPCF) in Messina, Italy. Since 2020 I have been appointed Research Director. My research interests have been related to optical trapping and manipulation, characterization of micro and nanoparticles, atoms, Bose-Einstein condensates. More generally I have been working on the mechanical interaction between light and matter for applications in nanoscience, atomic physics, complex systems, and soft-matter. I co-authored the textbook “Optical Tweezers: Principles and Applications”, P. H. Jones, O. M. Maragò, G. Volpe, Cambridge University Press (2015). I am an active member of OSA and EPS, serving as Advisor for the “Messina OSA Student Chapter” and the “Messina Young Minds Group” promoting topical seminars, meetings, and outreach activities. I chaired the “Optical Cooling & Trapping” OSA Technical Group (2013-2015), promoting and sponsoring activities at several topical conferences.