Computational Photonics

Welcome to our research group dedicated to Computational Electrodynamics and Photonics Design.

We investigate, model, and design complex photonic systems — from individual nanoantennas to metasurfaces, metamaterials, photonic crystals, and integrated nanophotonic circuits and meta-waveguides — including reconfigurable photonic structures with dynamic and tunable electromagnetic response.

Our goal is to understand and engineer light–matter interactions in nanostructured materials with unprecedented precision and complexity, enabled by advances in top-down and bottom-up nanofabrication, and explored in close collaboration with experimental partners.

Our expertise spans computational electrodynamics/electromagnetics (using advanced numerical solvers, e.g., FDTD, frequency-domain methods, and multipole approaches), high-performance computing, and theoretical modeling of material properties, including dispersion, nonlinearity, nonlocality, anisotropy, and time-varying media.

We also develop inverse design strategies using adjoint topology optimization and machine learning, enabling both the discovery of nanostructured systems with enhanced performance, and the understanding of new optical phenomena.

By combining physical and theoretical insight, numerical simulation, and experimental constraints, we aim to advance the next generation of metaphotonics, nanoantennas, and integrated nanophotonics technologies, targeting reconfigurable and ultrafast optical devices, programmable metasurfaces, enhanced light–matter interactions, on-chip optical computing, and quantum photonics, all studied in a virtual computational laboratory for light.

Please explore our publications and feel free to contact us. We are always looking for motivated and talented researchers to join us in realizing this vision.