Professor Gian-Luca Oppo
Physics
Personal statement
Gian-Luca Oppo is the 1796 Freeland Chair in Natural Philosophy since 2015. He graduated from the Institute of Optics and the University of Florence, Italy, in 1983. He worked at the Universities of Toronto (1985-1987), Drexel in Philadelphia (1987-1989) and Nice (1989). Oppo joined Strathclyde in 1989 and became professor in 1998. Together with William Firth and Stephen Barnett, Oppo built the Computational Nonlinear and Quantum Optics group that was flagged 5* in the RAE in 2001. He created the Institute of Complex Systems at Strathclyde with Des Higham (Mathematics) in 2007. In 2011 Oppo was awarded the Occhialini Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics and the Italian Physical Society for outstanding insights into spatio-temporal dynamics of lasers, nonlinear and quantum optical systems, achieved through the development and application of powerful techniques for large-to-small-scale computing. In 2014 and in 2016 Oppo was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award for the Most Enthusiastic Teacher at Strathclyde. Oppo's research profile and citations are available on Google Scholar.
Prize And Awards
- Teaching Excellence Award
- Recipient
- 20/5/2016
- Visiting Professor Award
- Recipient
- 1/4/2015
- 1796 Freeland Chair of Natural Philosophy
- Recipient
- 1/1/2015
- Teaching Excellence Award
- Recipient
- 7/5/2014
- Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Recipient
- 7/3/2012
- Awarded the Occhialini Medal and Prize 2011
- Recipient
- 26/9/2011
Qualifications
- Winner of the Occhialini medal and prize (2011)
- Winner of the Teaching Excellence Award (2016)
- Winner of the Teaching Excellence Award (2014)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2012)
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1999)
- Fellow of the institute of Physics (1997)
Publications
- Symmetry broken vectorial Kerr frequency combs from Fabry-Pérot resonators
- Hill Lewis, Hirmer Eva-Maria, Campbell Graeme, Bi Toby, Ghosh Alekhya, Del'Haye Pascal, Oppo Gian-Luca
- Communications Physics Vol 7 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-024-01566-0
- Continuous acceleration sensing using optomechanical droplets
- Robb Gordon R M, Walker Josh G, Oppo Gian-Luca, Ackemann Thorsten
- Atoms Vol 12 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms12030015
- Nonlinear topological symmetry protection in a dissipative system
- Coen Stéphane, Garbin Bruno, Xu Gang, Quinn Liam, Goldman Nathan, Oppo Gian-Luca, Erkintalo Miro, Murdoch Stuart G, Fatome Julien
- Nature Communications Vol 15 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44640-x
- Multi-stage spontaneous symmetry breaking of light in Kerr ring resonators
- Hill Lewis, Oppo Gian-Luca, Del’Haye Pascal
- Communications Physics Vol 6 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01329-3
- Control of quantum interference frequency combs : multistable temporal cavity solitons
- Eslami Mansour, Hashemi Maedeh Sadat, Grant David, Oppo Gian-Luca
- Physical Review A Vol 108 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.053511
- Generating multiparticle entangled states by self-organization of driven ultracold atoms
- Krešić Ivor, Robb Gordon RM, Oppo Gian-Luca, Ackemann Thorsten
- Physical Review Letters Vol 131 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.163602
Professional Activities
- Selection of Professor at University of Cote d'Azur, Nice, France
- Examiner
- 19/4/2022
- Dipolar and quadrupolar spontaneous magnetic ordering in an atomic spin system mediated by light
- Contributor
- 28/3/2022
- Two-dimensional supersolids by light-mediated coupling
- Contributor
- 20/9/2021
- Light-mediated interaction in single-mirror feedback systems
- Contributor
- 13/9/2021
- Yueyue Wang
- Host
- 1/1/2019
- Nonlinear Photonics Conference
- Chair
- 1/7/2018
Projects
- Theory and simulations of frequency combs in micro-resonator devices (£15K support from MPISL)
- Oppo, Gian-Luca (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2023
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Campbell, Graeme
- Oppo, Gian-Luca (Principal Investigator) Robb, Gordon (Co-investigator) Campbell, Graeme (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Henderson, Grant
- Yao, Alison (Principal Investigator) Oppo, Gian-Luca (Co-investigator) Henderson, Grant (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 10-Jan-2023
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Mansfield, Elliott
- Daley, Andrew (Principal Investigator) Oppo, Gian-Luca (Co-investigator) Mansfield, Elliott (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2022
- Engineering many-body quantum states and dissipative dynamics in quantum simulators | Mansfield, Elliott
- Daley, Andrew (Principal Investigator) Oppo, Gian-Luca (Co-investigator) Mansfield, Elliott (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2022
- Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Hill, Lewis
- Oppo, Gian-Luca (Principal Investigator) Yao, Alison (Co-investigator) Hill, Lewis (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 06-Jan-2021