Academic Staff

P. Baldi received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (UNSA), France, in 1988, 1989 and 1994, respectively. After a post-doc position granted by the french Ministery of Foreign Affairs (Lavoisier fellowship) in 1995 at CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, U.S.A., he joined the Laboaratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée at UNSA as an Assistant Professor in 1996. He is currently Full Professor at Institut de Physique de Nice, Université Côte d’Azur.

His research interests are in nonlinear integrated optics and solid-state lasers, with particular interest in quasi-phase matching with applications to laser systems and nonlinear optical and electro-optical devices. He published around 80 articles and more than 200 communications to conferences, supervised 20 PhD students and participated to more than 25 PhD and HDR jurys.

Stéphane Barland was born in 1974 in Paris. He studied for his master degree in Physics in Nice. He then prepared his PhD about the formation and control of localized structures in semiconductor lasers in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) and defended his thesis in Nice in November 2001. He went then back to Palma de Mallorca for a post-doctoral stay, followed by a two year post-doctoral fellowship in Florence working on semicondutor lasers and optical feedback. He got a permanent position as researcher in CNRS in 2004 and carries out his research activities at INPHYNI since then.
His research interests include lasers dynamics, neuromorphic photonics, collective phenomena and phase transitions in optics.

Nicolas Forget graduated in 2001 from the École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) and received a Ph.D degree in Physics in 2012 from the same institution. After a first career at Fastlite, a leading company specialized in ultrafast technologies, he joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2023.  Currently, he conducts his research at INHYNI, focusing on ultrafast sources, optical metrology and, more recently, on the exciting field of astrophotonics.


 

Massimo Giudici received the “Laurea in Fisica” from the University of Milan, Milano, Italy, in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree from Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France, in 1999. He is at present a full Professor at Université Côte d’Azur and carries out his research activity at INPHYNI. His research interests include the spatio-temporal dynamics of semiconductor lasers. In particular, he is actively working in the field of dissipative solitons in these lasers. His most important contributions concerned with temporal and spatial localized structures in VCSELs, mode-locking, excitability and stochastic resonances in semiconductorlasers, and the analysis of lasers with optical feedback.

Guillaume Huyet received the M.Sc. degree from ENS Lyon, Lyon, France, and the PhD degree from the University of Nice, Nice, France. After postdoctoral positions in Mallorca, Spain, Cork, Ireland, and Glasgow, U.K., he became a Lecturer at University College, Cork, Ireland. In 2002, he became a Senior Research Fellow at University College. He is currently the Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator at the Tyndall National Institute and the Head of the Center of Advanced Photonics and Process Analysis (CAPPA), Cork Institute of Technology, Cork. Since January 2017 he is research director at CNRS and head of the Institut de Physique de Nice (INPHYNI). His research interests include semiconductor devices for applications in communications and life science. Dr. Huyet received the Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator Award in 2002.

Aurélie Jullien was born in 1980 and received her master degree in optics from Ecole Supérieure d'Optique and Université Paris-Sud (Orsay, France) in 2002, and her PhD degree in physics from Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France), in 2006. After a one-year post-doctoral position at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), she got a permanent position as a CNRS researcher in 2007. She worked during 8 years at laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée (LOA, Palaiseau, France). She joined INPHYNI in 2015, where she is carrying out her research activity since then. Her research interests, mainly experimental, include ultrafast optics, high-intense femtosecond laser systems, nonlinear optics, physics of liquid crystals and bio-imaging.

Gian-Luca Lippi received his Laurea di Fisica (equivalent to a Master in Physics) from the Università di Firenze (Florence) and received a PhD in physics from the Bryn Mawr College (PA, USA). After post-doctoral work at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, (Germany) and Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis (UNS), He was hired as an assistant professor at UNS in 1994, and he became a full professor in 1998. Since 1994, he has carried out his research at INPHYNI. His research interests (both experimental and theoretical) include lasers dynamics, nanophotonics and biophotonics.

Mathias Marconi was born in Nice, France, in 1988.  He received the masters’ degree in optics from UNS in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institut Non linéaire de Nice in 2014 on semiconductor lasers pulse formation. From 2015 to 2018, He was a Postdoctoral Researcher in nanophotonics at Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies at C2N (France) where he designed, fabricated and explored the dynamics and coherence of photonic crystal nanolasers. In 2018, be became associate professor at Université Côte d’Azur (UCA) and carries out his research at INPHYNI. His research interests include semiconductor laser dynamics, nonlinear optics, nanolasers and nanophotonics . He is currently involved in research activities on swept source laser dynamics, integrated frequency comb lasers and spatio-temporal localized structure formations in lasers.

Michel Mitov is Director of research at CNRS. He obtained his PhD degree in condensed matter physics from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (UNSA). After completing a fellowship for postdoctoral studies at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, he was recruited as a CNRS researcher at the Centre d'Elaboration de Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales (CEMES) in Toulouse, France. In 2023, he joined INPHYNI. His current research interests include twisted liquid crystal design and optics, as well as biomimetic versions inspired by insect carapaces. He holds patents for smart windows that control solar light and temperature. He wrote a science popularization essay entitled “Sensitive matter” about soft matter.

Pr. Fabrice RAINERI has been an associate professor (maître de conférence) at LPN then C2N since 2005, while teaching at Paris Denis Diderot University. His PhD work (2001-04) was on nonlinear Photonic crystals, his post‐doc work was on CW Optical Parametric Oscillators at ICFO (Barcelona, 2005). His current research interests are focused on the investigation of optical nonlinear interactionswithin semiconductor micro/nanostructures and their exploitation for the achievement of optical functionalities useful for data processing. Recently, he led his work towards integrated nanophotonics with a specific effort on hybrid III‐ V semiconductors on Silicon structures. Since 2021, he is a full professor at Université Côte d'Azur and performs his research at INPHYNI.