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
- Fellowship Federation de recherche Wofgang Doeblin
- Recipient
- 29/3/2024
- 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
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
- Quantum correlations, mixed states, and bistability at the onset of lasing
- Papoff Francesco, Carroll Mark Anthony, Lippi Gian Luca, Oppo Gian-Luca, D’Alessandro Giampaolo
- Physical Review A Vol 111 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.111.L011501
- Theory and application of cavity solitons in photonic devices
- Oppo Gian-Luca, Firth William J
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Vol 382 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0336
- Quantum correlations and laser threshold
- Papoff Francesco, Lippi Gian Luca, D’Alessandro Giampaolo, Oppo Gian-Luca
- Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol 2894 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2894/1/012010
- Frequency comb enhancement via the self-crystallization of vectorial cavity solitons
- Campbell Graeme N, Hill Lewis, Del’Haye Pascal, Oppo Gian-Luca
- Optics Express Vol 32, pp. 37691-37702 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.536954
- Acceleration of optomechanical droplets
- Robb GRM, Walker JGM, Oppo G-L, Ackemann T
- Advanced Photonics Congress 2024 Nonlinear Photonics 2024 Technical Digest Series (2024)
- Two-particle quantum correlations on nano and macro single-mode lasers
- Papoff Francesco, D'Alessandro G, Lippi G L, Oppo Gian-Luca
- Proceedings of SPIE Vol 13002 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3024493
Professional Activities
- Supersolid light
- Contributor
- 29/5/2025
- Self-organized states in quantum degenerate Boson gases with light-mediated interactions
- Contributor
- 4/9/2024
- Institut de Physique de Nice
- Visiting researcher
- 2/6/2024
- Structuring ultracold atoms with light in an optical cavity
- Contributor
- 28/1/2023
- 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
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-2025
- 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 - 12-Jan-2024
- 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 - 12-Jan-2024
- Theory and Simulation of Polarisation Frequency Combs in Microcavities (Lewis Hill)
- Oppo, Gian-Luca (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 30-Jan-2021