2025
01/10/2025 - Arnaud Guardia joins the team from France for a PhD within the European doctoral network Functiglass. Welcome to the group, Arnaud!
18/09/2025 - Congratulations to Izzat for being selected as a recipient of the Young Scientist Award at PIERS 2025 in Chiba, Japan.
03/09/2025 - Congratulations to Johannes for completing his PhD. This is the first PhD in the group and makes us very proud!
23/07/2025 - Congratulations to Johannes for the publication of his third paper on the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
17/06/2025 - Antonio is appointed Full Professor (W3) after successfully completing the tenure-track phase. Congratulations to the entire team for this important milestone!
26/05/2025 - The Cluster of Excellende PhoenixD is funded by DFG for the second phase. Prof. Calà Lesina is one of the 25 principal investigators.
20-23/05/2025 - Prof. Calà Lesina was the Chair of the Photonics & AI session at the Photonics North Conference in Ottawa, Canada. He organized this session in 2020 (online, Co-Chair), 2021 (online, Chair), 2022 (Niagara Falls, Chair), 2023 (Montreal, Chair), 2024 (Vancouver, Chair). He will serve as the Program Co-Chair of Photonics North 2026.
19/05/2025 - Great collaboration with the group of Prof. Sebastian Polarz leads to a new paper on Nano Letters. Congratulations to Atefeh!
06/05/2025 - Congratulations to Atefeh for the publication of her paper on Advanced Optical Materials.
25/04/2025 - A new paper is out in Optics Express. Congratulations to Sadeq for his first paper!
25-30/01/2025 - Our group is for the first time at SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco with four contributions. Antonio presents an invited talk, Johannes and Izzat give a talk, and Abhishek presents a poster.
23/01/2025 - Prof. Calà Lesina is at the DFG headquarter in Bonn as part of the team to defend the proposal for the second phase of the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD.
01/01/2025 - Excellent start of the new year with a paper on the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Congratulations to the team!
2024
02/12/2024 - Fruitful collaboration with the group of Prof. Jannika Lauth leads to a new paper in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congratulations to Atefeh and Wenyong!
30/11/2024 - A new paper from the team is out in Laser & Photonics Reviews. Congratulations to Emad!
31/10/2024 - Prof. Calà Lesina leads a feature issue on Tunable and dynamic nanophotonics in the Journal of the Optical Society of America B.
29/10/2024 - Congratulations to Yassine Ben Chaabane for defending his thesis and completing his BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering!
28/10/2024 - Congratulations to Finn Salhoff for defending his thesis and completing his MSc degree in Optical Technologies.
05/09/2024 - Congratulations to Atefeh for a paper in collaboration with the group of Prof. Sebastian Polarz on Advanced Functional Materials.
04/09/2024 - The DFG awards Prof. Calà Lesina a Research Grant for the project Tunable on-chip meta-waveguides for reprogrammable integrated optics under the program Middle East Collaboration (Co-PI, Prof. Alina Karabchevsky, Israel).
21/06/2024 - Congratulations to Izzat for a new paper in Physical Review B.
02-05/06/2024 - Prof. Calà Lesina serves as a co-organizer of the 811th WE-Heraeus Seminar on Photonics for information processing, Bad Honnef, Germany.
09/04/2024 - The European Commission funds the MSCA Doctoral Network FunctiGlass. Leibniz University Hannover is one of the beneficiaries, and the PI Prof. Calà Lesina will supervise two PhD students within this network.
07-11/04/2024 - Prof. Calà Lesina gave an invited talk at SPIE Photonics Europe (Machine Learning in Photonics conference) in Strasbourg, France.
05/03/2024 - Girish Gunjari defended his thesis and completed his MSc in Optical Technologies, congratulations!
21/02/2024 - Wenyong Xie defended his thesis and completed his MSc in Optical Technologies, congratulations! He will join us as a PhD researcher. Welcome to the team, Wenyong!
20/02/2024 - A new paper is out in Optics Letters in collaboration with Prof. Michael Kues, and selected as Editor's Pick. Congratulations to Abhishek for his first paper!
01/02/2024 - Amazing collaboration with Dr. Andrey Evlyukhin. A new paper is out in Optics Express. Congratulations to Izzat!
2023
14/12/2023 - The Lower Saxony Minister for Science and Culture, in collaboration with the Volkswagen Stiftung, awards Prof. Calà Lesina a Research Grant for the project Inverse-design of integrated electro-optic modulators for energy-efficient photonic neuromorphic computing within the program Forschungskooperation Niedersachsen - Israel (Co-PI, Prof. Alina Karabchevsky, Israel).
26/10/2023 - The first paper of the first PhD student of the team is out in ACS Photonics. Congratulations to Johannes!
20/10/2023 - A wonderful collaboration with the groups of Prof. Boris Chichkov and Prof. Anatoly Zayats results in a paper in Advanced Photonics Research. Congratulations to Izzat!
06/10/2023 - The German Research Foundation (DFG) awards Prof. Calà Lesina a Research Grant for the project High-performance computing and topology optimization for the design of large-scale dispersive nanophotonic structures in 3D.
28/04/2023 - Emanuel Pegler defends his MSc thesis. Congratulations!
2022
29.10-06.11/2022 - Prof. Calà Lesina serves as a Co-Director for the International Workshop on Physical Computing at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture (EMSCSC), Erice, Italy. The success of the event leads to the establishment of a permanent school at the EMSCSC: the International School on Physical Computing, co-directed with Prof. Wolfram Pernice (Heidelberg University, Germany).
01/09/2022 - Sadeq Bahmani joins the group Computational Photonics as a PhD researcher. Welcome to the team, Sadeq!
01/08/2022 - Rayan Jallali and Qiang Wang (Jena University) defend their MSc thesis. Congratulations!
01/07/2022 - Dr. Atefeh Habibpourmoghadam joins the group Computational Photonics as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome to the team, Atefeh!
18/05/2022 - The first paper of the group is out in Optics Express. Congratulations to Emad!
01/01/2022 - Abhishek Nanda joins the group Computational Photonics as a PhD researcher. Welcome to the team, Abhishek!
01/01/2022 - Congratulations to Prof. Emadeldeen (Emad) Hassan who has started his professorship at Umeå University, Sweden.
2021
01/10/2021 - Johannes Gedeon joins the research group Computational Photonics as a PhD researcher. Welcome to the team, Johannes!
01/01/2021 - Dr. Izzatjon Allayarov joins the research group of Prof. Calà Lesina as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome to the team, Izzat!
2020
15/12/2020 - Dr. Emadeldeen Hassan joins the research group Computational Photonics of Prof. Calà Lesina as a postdoctoral researcher. As the inaugural team member, a special welcome to the team, Emad!
01/07/2020 - Professor Dr. Antonio Calà Lesina starts his professorship (W2, tenure-track to W3) at Leibniz University Hannover. He joins ITA, HOT and PhoenixD from the University of Ottawa, Canada.
