Primalight group

March 2019

Group Presentation Snippet (Nov 2020)

Andrea Fratalocchi

Associate Professor

Andrea Fratalocchi is a Full Professor (from Jan 2023) in the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division at KAUST University. He joined KAUST in January 2011 as Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate in 2016. Before joining KAUST, Andrea Fratalocchi was a Research Fellow at the Sapienza University of Rome under a KAUST Fellowship Award. From 2007 to 2009, Andrea Fratalocchi worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Sapienza University under a “New Talent” Award from the research center “Enrico Fermi.” In 2012 he was appointed as Editor of Nature Scientific Report. In 2017, he won the Middle East GCC Enterprise Award as the best electrical engineer of the year. In 2019, he became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA):

For pioneering innovations in the use of complex optical systems and the development of creative technologies in clean energy harvesting, bio-imaging, and advanced optical materials“. 

According to the standardized citations index collected by Plos (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918) Andrea Fratalocchi is in the top 2% of Optics worldwide. Andrea Fratalocchi authored more than 200 publications, including three books and six patents. Andrea Fratalocchi is the co-founder of Pixeltra (www.pixeltra.com), a startup company implementing a revolutionary artificial intelligent hardware and software hyperspectral technology for security, food safety, and biomedical applications. 

CV (updated Jun-2019)

Ning Li

Ning Li

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Maxsim S. Elizarov

Maxsim S. Elizarov

PhD Student

Qizhou (Joe) Wang

Qizhou (Joe) Wang

MS/PhD Student

Fedor Getman

Fedor Getman

PhD Student

Maxsim Makarenko

Maxsim Makarenko

PhD Student

Zhao He

Zhao He

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Arturo Burguete Lopez

Arturo Burguete Lopez

MS/PhD Student

Fei Xiang

Fei Xiang

MS/PhD Student