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.
Professional activities
- 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
- Honorary Degree Advisory Panel (Event)
- Member
- 16/9/2014
- Royal Society of Edinburgh (External organisation)
- Member
- 4/12/2012
- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
- Chair
- 2010
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Projects
- 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)
- Period 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Dec-2020
- Doctoral Training Partnership (DTA - University of Strathclyde) | Gibson, Christopher
- Yao, Alison (Principal Investigator) Oppo, Gian-Luca (Co-investigator) Gibson, Christopher (Research Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Oct-2014 - 01-Apr-2018
- EPSRC DOCTORAL TRAINING GRANT | Campbell, Russell
- Oppo, Gian-Luca (Principal Investigator) Robb, Gordon (Co-investigator) Campbell, Russell (Research Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Oct-2011 - 01-Apr-2015
- Super-resolution optical microscopy via nonlinear self-focusing | Travis, Christopher
- Oppo, Gian-Luca (Principal Investigator) McConnell, Gail (Co-investigator) Travis, Christopher (Research Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Jul-2011 - 01-Jan-2015
- Doctoral Training Grant 2010 | Noblet, Yoann
- Ackemann, Thorsten (Principal Investigator) Oppo, Gian-Luca (Co-investigator) Noblet, Yoann (Research Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Oct-2010 - 14-Oct-2014
- Modelling Condensed Matter Systems with Quantum Gases in Optical Cavities | Diver, Martin
- Robb, Gordon (Principal Investigator) Oppo, Gian-Luca (Co-investigator) Diver, Martin (Research Co-investigator)
- Period 01-Jan-2011 - 01-Jul-2014
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