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Di Trapani CV
Curriculum Vitae
1) Personal data
I was Born in Sondrio, Italy, on April 8, 1962. Italian Citizenship. Civil Status:
married, 4 children (3,3, 12 and 14 years old). Current position (until April 2009):
Marie Curie Chair – Full professor, Quantum Electronics Department, Vilnius
University. Permanent position: Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematical,
Physical and Natural Sciences, Insubria University at Como, Italy.
www.vino-stella.eu
2) Education and training
- 1980: Diploma in Classical High School (mark: 60/60)
- 1987: Degree (Laurea) cum laude in Physics at the Department of Physics, University of Pavia, Italy, in
theoretical statistical mechanics. Thesis entitled: “Liquid-state theories for critical phenomena: approximate
enclosures and core conditions for the Hierarchical Reference Theory of fluids”
- 1992: Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Pavia, in experimental Nonlinear Optics. Thesis entitled:
“Parametric generation of coherent and tunable ultra-short pulses for ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy”.
Doctoral activities
- 1988-1991: (i) Ph.D. fellow at the Department of Electronics, University of Pavia; (ii) Visiting scientist at the
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA; (iii) Visiting
scientist at the Department of Quantum Electronics, Vilnius University
Post Doctoral activities
- 1992: (i) INFM fellow at the Department of the Electronics, University of Pavia; (ii) INFM fellow at the
European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Florence; (iii) EU-COST fellow at the Department
of Quantum Electronics, Vilnius University; (iv) Consultant at the CISE (research company of national energy
production), Segrate (Milan)
3) Positions and honours
- Since 1993: Permanent research staff at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the
University of Milan at Como (future Insubria University).
- Since 2000: Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the
University of Insubria at Como.
- Since 2006: Marie Curie Chair – Full professor at Quantum Electronics Department, Vilnius University.
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Co-chair of the international workshop on “Optical parametric processes and periodical structures”,
Vilnius October 26-29, 2004
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Co-chair of the Soliton-workshop of the Optical Society of America (Varenna, Italy, August 2002);
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Topical Editorial of the journal “Nonlinear Analysis: Modelling and Control” (http://www.lana.lt/journal/)
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Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), of the scientific committee of the OSA European
CLEO and EQUEC Conferences as well as the OSA Nonlinear Guided Wave Conference.
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Referee of Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. E, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Optics. Lett., Optics Commun., Optics
Express, J. of Modern Optics, etc.
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Author of above hundred ISI peer-reviewed publications in international journals (among which 17 on
Phys. Rev. Lett.) and of ≅40 invited contributions to conferences, journals or books. My H-index is =25.
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Director/Co-director of 4 editions of the European “School for Training in Experiments with Lasers and
Lased Applications” (STELLA_SCHOOL ): (i) LRC-Vilnius, July-August 2001; (ii) LRC-Vilnius, JuneJuly 2007; (iii) IELS-FORTH Heraclion, April 2008; (iv) ICFO-Barcelona, April 2009.
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Director of the Virtual Institute for Nonlinear Optics (http://www.vino-stella.eu/vinoteam/index.php)
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Director of the science and art theatrical exhibition: “Light in Light” (www.diluceinluce.eu)
4) Research interests
Theory phase transitions (master degree); laser physics (PhD) and nonlinear optics: ps mode-locked lasers,
Raman and tunable parametric sources of ultra-short optical pulses, measurements of ultra-fast nonlinear optical
material response, generation and all-optical control of spatial and temporal solitons, measurements of quantum
effects in high-gain optical parametric interaction and high photon-number regime, spatio-temporal localization
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and instabilities, ultra short laser pulse filamentation, nonlinear conical waves and application to extreme UV
generation.
5) The Como research facility and research team
In Como, I have installed conducted two fs-laser laboratory, equipped with two high power (up to 10 GW)
Nd:glass ps-fs lasers, two TOPAS (tunable frequency converters), and high dynamic range diagnostics for
spatial, spectral, temporal and spatio-temporal optical wave-packet characterization. My research group in Como
is currently composed 1 permanent researcher, 1 Post Doc, 3 Ph.D students, and 2 undergraduate students.
6) Didactical activity
Since 1993 I have been teaching Laboratory Physics and Optics Courses for the specialist “Laurea” in Physics. I
guided in research 24 (Master degree, PhD or Post Doc) collaborators. As MC Chair at Vilnius University, I had
delivered full immersion experimental courses at the STELLA schools, and I have coordinated the training of
≅20 university and secondary-school students who worked as actors/guides at the Light in Light exhibition
7) Collaborations
I have collaborated with more than a hundred researchers (136 are the co-authors of my publications) and with a
comparable number of people for the realization of the Light in Light exhibition (see credits at
http://www.diluceinluce.eu/credits.php). Recent scientific collaborations (i.e. those having produced scientific
publications since 2003) include those with: (i) Vilnius University, (ii) University of Ferrara, Italy; (iii) Instituto
de Cinecias Fotonicas (ICFO), Barcelona, Spain; (iv) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain; (v) University of
Milan, Italy; (vi) CREOL, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA; (vii) Tel Aviv University, Israel; (viii)
University of Pavia, Italy; (ix) Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Terrassa, Spain; (x) Université de Nice,
France; (xi) Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; (xii) Université de Franche-Comté
Besançon, France; (xiii) Ecole Polytechniqye, Palaiseau, France, (xiv) Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences
and Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, (xv) Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser,
Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas.
8) Trends in Publications, Citations and Funding
Here below I report about the temporal trend of per-year ISI publications, citations (actual citation index: H=25),
and funding, where orange columns refer to what I have directly administrated (as PI, or local coordinator, or
simply as facility responsible). The corresponding total budget which I managed since 1998 is 3.9Ml €, of which
2.1Ml€ since 2006. Blue columns include also what assigned to other VINO members relative to the research
performed under my general coordination.
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For what concerns currently running grants, at present I’m coordinating 7 research projects (6 as PI or local
coordinator, and 1 as exp-facility responsible), whose details are listed below. All these projects deal with research
in nonlinear Optics, with the exception of (vi)-NanoTop, 77K€, starting date June 2009, which concerns
development of optical diagnostic for characterizing nanocomposite materials. In spite NanoTop does not concerns
Lighting Technology, owing to potential synergy with LEONARDO it will be considered, for a part of it, as small
co-financing source. Running Projects: (i) “MC Chair STELLA”, 2006-2009, EU (550K€); (ii)“VINO – the Virtual
Institute for Nonlinear Optics”, 2006-2009, MIUR (75 K€);
(iii)“All optical nanostructured devices in softmatter”, 2006-2009, MIUR (143 K€); (iv)“Extreme phase matching by conical waves”, 2006-2009, CNISM,
(300 K€);
(v)“CONTEX: Conical wave Technology”, 2008-2010, Lithuanian Science &Technology
Foundation (300 K€); (vi)“NanoTop-Transparent Polymer Nanocomposite with Tailorable Optical Properties”,
2009-2011, CARIPLO (77 K€); (vii)“HIDEAS, High Dimensional Entangled Systems”, EU, 2009-2011 (145 K€).
The number of publications and citations per year are also presented on the right side (current H-index =25). The
result show a growing trend, with 14 publications and 300 citations in 2008, owing to VINO collaborative work.
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1) Top 10 publications
1. P. Di Trapani, D. Caironi, G. Valiulis, A. Dubietis, R. Danielius, and A. Piskarskas, “Observation of temporal
solitons in second-harmonic generation with tilted pulses”, PRL 81 (1998) 570. 70 Citations (without self).
2. P. Di Trapani, G. Valiulis, W. Chinaglia and A. Andreoni, “Two-dimensional spatial solitary waves from
traveling-wave parametric amplification of the quantum noise”, PRL 80 (1998) 265. 44 Cit.
3. P. Di Trapani, A. Berzanskis, S. Minardi, S. Sapone, and W. Chinaglia, “Observation of optical Vortices and
J0-Bessel beams in quantum-noise parametric amplification”, PRL 81 (1998) 5133-5136. 26 Cit.
4. P. Di Trapani, W. Chinaglia, S. Minardi, A. Piskarskas, and G. Valiulis, “Observation of quadratic vortex
solitons”, PRL, 84 (2000) 3843-3846. 34 Cit.
5. C. Conti, S. Trillo, P. Di Trapani, G. Valiulis, A. Piskarskas, O. Jedrkiewicz, J. Trull, “Nonlinear
electromagnetic X-waves”, PRL, 90, (2003) 170406. 75 Cit.
6. P. Di Trapani, G. Valiulis, A. Piskarskas, O. Jedrkiewicz, J. Trull, C. Conti, and S. Trillo, “Spontaneously
generated X-shaped light bullets”, PRL t, 91 (2003) 093904. 66 Cit.
7. Audrius Dubietis, Eugenijus Gaizauskas, Gintaras Tamosauskas, Paolo Di Trapani “Light Filaments Without
Self Guiding”, PRL 93 (2004) 252903. 68 Cit.
8. M. A. Porras, A. Parola, D. Faccio, A. Dubietis, and P. Di Trapani, "Nonlinear unbalanced Bessel beams:
Stationary conical waves supported by nonlinear losses", PRL t, 93 (2004) 153902 28 Cit.
9. O. Jedrkiewicz, Y-K Jiang, E. Brambilla, A. Gatti, M. Bache, L. Lugiato, and P. Di Trapani, "Detection of subshot-noise spatial correlation in high-gain parametric down-conversion", PRL, 93 (2004) 243601. 24 Cit.
10. D.Faccio, M.A.Porras, A.Dubietis, F.Bragheri, A.Couairon and P.Di Trapani, “Conical emission, pulse
splitting and X-wave parametric amplification in nonlinear dynamics of ultrashort light pulses”, PRL 96,
193901 (2006). 39 Cit.
2) Research Monographs and Chapters in Collective Volumes
11. “Optical solitons due to quadratic nonlinearities: from basic physics to futuristic applications”, AV. Buryak,
P. Di Trapani, DV. Skryabin, S. Trillo, Phys. Reports – Review Section of Physics Letters, 370, 63-235 (2002).
172 Pages, 119 Citations. Research Monograph
12. “Optical Wave Modes: Localize and Propagation-Invariant Wave Packets in Optically Transparent Dispersive
Media”, M. Porras, P. Di Trapani, Wei Hu. P 217-242, In “Localized Waves”, Willey Publ., Edited by Hugo E.
Hern Andez–Figueroa, Michel Zamboni–Rached, Erasmo Recami (2008). Chapter in Collective Volume
13. “Conical waves, filaments and nonlinear filamentation optics”, D. Faccio, A. Couairon and P. Di Trapani, Edit.
Aracne (2007) ISBN: 8854812080, ISBN-13: 9788854812086, 172 Pages. Book
14. “X waves in self-focusing of ultra-short pulses”. C.Conti, P.Di Trapani, S.Trillo - Springer Topics in Applied
Physics, "Self-focusing: Past and Present. Fundamentals and Prospects", Editors: R.W. Boyd, S.G. Lukishova,
Y.R. Shen - (2009). Chapter in Collective Volume
15. “On the role of conical waves in self-focusing and filamentation of femtosecond pulses”.
E.Gaizauskas, A.Dubietis, V.Kudriasov, V.Sirutkaitis, A.Couairon, D.Faccio, P.Di Trapani - Springer Topics
in Applied Physics, "Self-focusing: Past and Present. Fundamentals and Prospects", Editors: R.W. Boyd, S.G.
Lukishova, Y.R. Shen - (2009). Chapter in Collective Volume
3) Patents
Title: “Lighting Device”. Inventors: Paolo Di Trapani and Marta Pigazzini. Owner: Paolo Di Trapani. Deposit
number: MI2008A001135. Deposit Date: June 24 2008. Deposited at the Italian Patent Office. Patent Pending.
4) Invited presentations (2002-2008)
16. P. Di Trapani, J. Trull, O. Jedrkiewicz, G. Valiulis, C. Conti, S. Trillo, A. Piskarskas, “Nonlinear Xwaves: a
spontaneous localization in spatio-temporal domain”, LEOS, Glasgow (November 2002).
17. P. Di Trapani, G. Valiulis, S. Trillo, C. Conti, O. Jedrkiewicz, J. Trull, and A. Piskarskas, “Spontaneous Xwaves and spatio-temporal dynamics”, CLEO-Europe, Munich (2003).
18. P. Di Trapani, G. Valiulis, A. Piskarskas, O. Jedrkiewicz, J. Trull, S. Trillo, C. Conti, A. Matijosus, and M.
Porras, “X-waves: a spatio-temporal localization between linear and non-linear optics”, symposium of the
German Physical Society, Hannover (March 2003).
19. P. Di Trapani, O. Jedrkiewicz, J. Trull, G. Valiulis, A Piskarskas, S. Trillo, C. Conti “The hunt for light
bullets and the spontaneous X waves in nonlinear optics” CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2003, Munchen-2003
20. P. Di Trapani, L. Lugiato, A. Gatti, D. Faccio, O. Jedrkiewicz, D. Salerno, P. Polesana, A. Dubietis, A.
Piskarskas, M. Porras, F. Bragheri, V. Degiorgio, A. Couairon, S.Jenkins, B. Kennedy, Conical Waves in the
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Frontier between Linear, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics, FiO, Frontiers in Optics Conference, Tucson,
Arizona, 23-25 October (2005).
P. Di Trapani , O. Jedrkiewicz, D. Salerno, A. Matijosius, D. Faccio, A. Parola; A. Dubietis, A.
Varanavicius, G. Valiulis, E. Gaizauskas, R. Piskarskas , E. Kucinauskas, G. Tamosauskas, and A.
Piskarskas; M. A. Porras, F. Bragheri and V. De Giorgio; A. Couairon, Non Linear Conical Waves for
Modern Optical Technologies, ICONO/LAT (Saint Petersburg) (2005)
P. Di Trapani,“Light filaments and X-waves”, Quebec International Symposium on Ultrafast Intense Laser
Filamentation, Quebec (2006)
D. Faccio, A. Couairon and P. Di Trapani, Spontaneous and controlled spatial and spatio-temporal dynamics
in filaments with Gaussian and Bessel-like beams, 17th International Laser Physics Workshop, Trondheim,
Norway (2008)
D. Faccio, A. Couairon,, M. Kolesik, A. Averchi, S. Tzortzakis, P. Di Trapani, X waves and phase-matched
processes in ultrashort-pulse filamentation, 2nd International Symposium on Filamentation, Paris, France
(2008)
M. Clerici, O. Jedrkiewicz, D. Faccio, A. Averchi, A. Lotti, E. Rubino, G. Valiulis, L.Tartara, V. Degiorgio,
A. Couairon, M. Kolesik, and P. Di Trapani, Controlled X wave formation in bulk quadratic and cubic
nonlinear media, IEEE LEOS Annual Conference, Newport Beach, CA (2008)
5)Research Expeditions
1) IELS-FORTH Heraclion, April 7-18, 2008. In the framework of the “School for training in Experiments with
Lasers and Laser applications”, I have organized and directed a research expedition on the topic: “secondary
sources obtained by ultra-intense laser-pulse filamentation in various optical media”, which has been participated
by 24 senior and younger researchers from EU and USA. The results obtained during 2 weeks of experimental and
numerical activity have lead to 4 publications on ISI journals and about 10 conference presentations
http://www.vino-stella.eu/stellaschool/2008_index.php
2) Vilnius University Laser Research Center and Quantum Electronics Department , 1st May 2006 – today. Having
been granted by a 3-year Marie Curie Chair position at Vilnius University for the purpose of establishing a virtual
institute of research, during the (almost) 3 year of my staying I have organized in Vilnius a number of research
expeditions, where most of my research collaborators have been involved. The results of the activity that I have
coordinated in the context of the MC Chair expedition, in the period 2006-today, have brought to about 30
publications (www.vino-stella.eu), to the organization of three STELLA schools (one mentioned above and one
still in progress), to the realization of the Light in Light exhibition and to the formal establishment of VINO
3) Vilnius University Laser Research Center and Quantum Electronics Department , 10-30 June 2002. In order to
demonstrate the existence of nonlinear X waves, as soon as the “ideal source” for that goal was developed in
Vilnius I had organized and conducted there a 3-week expedition, where the spectacular spatio-temporal clepsydralike shape, signature of spatio-temporal localization, has been captured for the first time.
6) Organization of international conferences.
• Director and organizer of 5 editions of the public science dissemination event: “Light in Light”, (Como 2001,
Genova 2003, Genova 2005, Como 2005, Vilnius 2007), which has been attended by over 25000 people
(15000 during the 3-week Vilnius eent) (www.diluceinluce.eu)
• Co-chair of the international workshop on “Optical parametric processes and periodical structures”, Vilnius
October 26-29, 2004
• Co-chair of the Soliton-workshop of the Optical Society of America (Varenna, Italy, August 2002);
• Member of scientific committee of the OSA European CLEO and EQUEC Conferences as well as the OSA
Nonlinear Guided Wave Conference.
• Director/Co-director of 4 editions of the European “School for Training in Experiments with Lasers and Lased
Applications” (STELLA_SCHOOL ): (i) LRC-Vilnius, July-August 2001; (ii) LRC-Vilnius, June-July 2007;
(iii) IELS-FORTH Heraclion, April 2008; (iv) ICFO-Barcelona, April 2009.
7) International awards.
• 3-year MC chair fellowship by the EU, and full-professor position at Vilnius University.
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