Education
University of Pennsylvania.
University of Pennsylvania.
He has authored over 200 journal papers, 15 book chapters, 270 conference papers, and is attributed with over 10,000 citations, which includes some published research that has been cited by over 100 and over 200 others He has received over 25 professional honors and scientific awards. Also professionally, he is currently an editor for the peer-reviewed journal Metamaterials, and is an active (international) peer reviewer for 50 scientific journals, nine funding agencies, and engaged by the editorial offices of Wiley, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Press, Cambridge University Press, Cyclic Redundancy Check Press, and Prentice Hall.
Some of the scientific journals for which he peer reviews are Nature, Science, Physical Review journals (A,B,East, Letters), and includes journals produced by the American Chemical Society, the Optical Society of America, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IOP Science and others
He is also co-inventor of three inventions in various stages of the patent process which are novel waveguides, scattering devices, optical circuits, optical circuit elements, and a cloaked sensor device. Since January 2009 Alù has been an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.
He is part of the faculty at the Wireless Networking & Communications Group, a lab fully dedicated to communications research. He did his postdoctoral research under Professor Nader Engheta at the Fields and Waves Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy of biomedical electronics, electromagnetics and telecommunications from the Roma Tre University, in 2007.
Since March 2014, Alù has been on the Board of Scientific Advisors at Metamaterial Technologies Incorporated., an international optical nano-composites company (wwwmetamaterialcom).
Professionally, he is currently a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (since 2003), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Antennas and Propagation Society (2003), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (2003), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society, the Optical Society of America (2007), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007).