Alberto Bramati                                                                                          

Laboratoire Kastler Brossel

Sorbonne Université, Ecole Normale Supérieure et CNRS.

Married, 2 daugthers

Education, positions and awards

2015:               Elected OSA Fellow

Since 2008:     Full Professor at University Pierre et Marie Curie-UPMC

2006-2011:     Junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France

2004 :              « Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches de l’UPMC » : Quantum Optics with semiconductors and cold atoms

2001-2007:     Assistent Professor at University Pierre et Marie Curie-UPMC

1999-2001:     Post-doc at University of Insubria-Como, Italy

1998-1999:     Post-Doc at University Paris XIII- Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers

1995-1998:      PhD at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, UPMC : Quantum noise in semiconductor and solid state lasers (Marie Curie fellowship)

1994:               Internship at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel

1993:               Laurea in Physics at University of Milan, Italy

Laser Physics, Atomic Physics, Atomic Spectroscopy, Ultrafast Non Linear Optics, Soliton formation, Quantum Optics, Generation of Non-Classical Light and Squeezed states, Nano-photonics, single photon sources, semiconductor nanocrystals, quantum dots, exciton-polariton physics, polariton quantum fluids

>4000 citations, h-factor=33 (Google Scholar)

>100 publications in international peer review journals (including 1 Science, 3 Nature Phys., 2 Nature Photonics, 2 Nature Communications, 1 Scientific Reports, 1 Optica, 16 PRL, 9 PRB, 7 PRA, 5 JOSA B, 6 Opt. Lett., 2 Optics Express, 1 APL),

Several oral presentation in international conferences (>40 invited talks) and seminars, invited lectures at several International Schools : Maratea, Italie 2007, 2009, 2013; Santiago de Cuba, Cuba 2009, Tsakhkadzor, Armenia 2010, Phuket 2011, International School on Semiconductor Physics (Krynica-Zdroj, Poland 2010), International Summer School on Nonlinear Dynamics, Dynamical Transitions and Instabilities in Classical and Quantum Systems, ICTP, Trieste, 14-31 july 2014.

Phd Thesis supervision; 11 defended thesis, 2 currently running; Post-Docs supervision; 9 post-docs (13 years)

Expertise activity

• Referee for American Physical Society (PRL, PRA, PRB), Optical Society of America (Opt. Lett., Opt. Express, JOSAB), European Physical Journal, Applied Physics Letters, Nature Physics, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications.
• Expert for QIPC projets and for Marie Sklodovska Curie Actions of the European Community program
• Expert for the ANR (French National Agency), Austrian Research Council, German DFG and Italian national Agency (PRIN)
• Member of the jury Defence of 27 PhD thesis, 2 HDR
• Guest Editor for the book: « Quantum fluids: hot-topics and new trends », Springer&Verlag, published july 2013.

Organisation of scientific meetings

• Member of the local committee of the international conference OECS12 (Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems), September 2011, Paris (300 participants).
• Member of the Program Committee of the Conference « Quantum Dots and Nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Modelling XI », Photonic West-OPTO.
• Organiser of a special session on Polaritons at the “Congres Général de la Sociéte Française de Physique”, August 2015, Strasbourg, France
• Organiser of the School “Quantum Fluids of Light and Matter 2018”, 25-29 June, les Houches, France

Institutional responsabilities

• Since 2008, Member of the scientific council of the physics department of the University UPMC
• Since 2011, Member of the national CNU commission (Conseil National des Universités)
• Since 2014, National coordinator for the fields « Physics-Chemistry and Engineer sciences» of the French-Brazilian cooperation CAPES-COFECUB
• Since 2013, Member of the « Directive Council » of the L.E.N.S. laboratory, Florence, Italy, as representative of University UPMC
• Since 2008, Co-organizer of the “ Physics Colloquium” of the University UPMC