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 Oppo was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award for Most Enthusiastic Teacher at Strathclyde. Oppo's research profile and citations are available on Google Scholar.

Prizes 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

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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

Asymmetric balance in symmetry breaking: Garbin Bruno, Fatome Julien, Oppo Gian-Luca, Erkintalo Miro, Murdoch Stuart G, Coen Stéphane; Physical Review Research Vol 2 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023244
Optomechanical transport of cold atoms induced by structured light: Baio Giuseppe, Robb Gordon R M, Yao Alison M, Oppo Gian-Luca; Physical Review Research Vol 2 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023126
Complex structures in cavities with media displaying EIT : coexistence, defects and selection mechanism: Eslami M, Kheradmand R, Oppo G-L; Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Vol 53 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ab6d92
Effects of self- and cross-phase modulation on the spontaneous symmetry breaking of light in ring resonators: Hill Lewis, Oppo Gian-Luca, Woodley Michael T M, Del'Haye Pascal; Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Vol 101 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.101.013823
Control of spatially rotating structures in diffractive Kerr cavities: Yao Alison M, Gibson Christopher J, Oppo Gian-Luca; Optics Express Vol 27, pp. 31273-31289 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.031273
Excitation modes of bright matter-wave solitons: Carli Andrea Di, Colquhoun Craig D, Henderson Grant, Flannigan Stuart, Oppo Gian-Luca, Daley Andrew J, Kuhr Stefan, Haller Elmar; Physical Review Letters Vol 123 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.123602

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Professional activities

Yueyue Wang: Host; 1/1/2019
Nonlinear Photonics Conference: Chair; 1/7/2018
Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (External organisation): Member; 15/1/2017
Nonlinear Photonics: Chair; 5/9/2016
University of Sussex (External organisation): Member; 2/1/2016
Non-equilibrium Processes at Negative Temperature: Chair; 23/10/2014

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Projects

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-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
Theory and Simulation of Polarisation Frequency Combs in Microcavities: Oppo, Gian-Luca (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2017 - 30-Jan-2021
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 - 01-Jan-2021
Collective effects and optomechanics in ultra-cold matter (ColOpt) (H2020 MCSA ETN): Ackemann, Thorsten (Principal Investigator) Griffin, Paul (Co-investigator) Oppo, Gian-Luca (Co-investigator) Robb, Gordon (Co-investigator) Yao, Alison (Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2020
Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Surace, Jacopo: Oppo, Gian-Luca (Principal Investigator) Robb, Gordon (Co-investigator) Surace, Jacopo (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2016 - 01-Jan-2020

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