Roberto Caputo's Biosketch

Roberto Caputo obtained his M.Sc in Physics from the University of Calabria in 2000. In the same year he received a Post-graduate scholarship from INFM (National Institute for the Physics of Matter) for continuing his master thesis research. In 2002 he started his Ph.D in Physics.  In 2005 he obtained a Marie Curie Post-doc Fellowship for the “Transfer of Knowledge” at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, The Netherlands under the supervision of Dr. Hugo Cornelissen. During the stay at Philips, his research work has been mainly focused on the realization of new-concept LCD backlight systems. In 2007 he obtained a two-year Marie Curie reintegration grant with a project on research and development of highly efficient organic lasing structures. In the same year, he obtained a position as Assistant Professor at University of Calabria and he actually is a member of CNR-NANOTEC and Physics Department of University of Calabria. His scientific activity is mainly oriented to the study and realization of micro- and nano-scale functional systems in organic composite materials. Results of this research span from fundamental physics advances to innovative high-tech applications. Recently he spent a two-year period at the University of Technology of Troyes to perform advanced studies on Active Plasmonics. He has authored and co-authored more than 70 papers on international journals, 4 international patents and about 40 communications to scientific conferences and symposia. Moreover, he co-chaired the European COST Action IC1208 “Integrating devices and materials: a challenge for new instrumentation in ICT”. During his career, He has supervised more than 15 Master thesis students and 4 Ph.D fellows.