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.
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
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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 - 01-Jan-2023
- 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 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
- 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
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