Team

S. Wabnitz obtained the Laurea Degree in Electronics Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome in 1982, the MS in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 1983, and the PhD in Applied Electromagnetism from the Italian Ministry of Education in 1988. He was with the Ugo Bordoni Foundation between 1985 and 1996. In 1996 he became full professor in Physics at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France. Between 1999 and 2003 he was with Alcatel Research and Innovation Labs in France and with Xtera Communications in Texas. Since 2007 until 2018 he was full professor at the University of Brescia, Italy. Since November 2018 he is full professor in telecom at the Department of Information, Electronics and Telecom Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome. His research activities involve nonlinear propagation effects in optical communications and information processing devices. He is the author and co-author of over 700 international refereed papers, conference presentations, and book chapters. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Optical Fiber Technology, a Fellow member of the Optical Society of America, and senior member of IEEE-Photonics Society.

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Rocco Crescenzi received the degree in Aerospace Engineering at the ”Sapienza” University of Rome in 2002 and successively the Doctorate degree in Industrial Production Engineering. He works as mechanical engineer at the Nanostructure Laboratory in the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunication at ”Sapienza” University of Rome. He is employed in the Electronic Technological Laboratory as expert in plasma process (RIE, Sputtering and PECVD), thermal vapor deposition, photolithographic process, wet etching and electrochemical processes. His researches focus on the MEMS and his research group has developed several experimental setups for the mechanical characterization of the micro and nanostructured materials. His designing interests regard the finite element modeling, in particular the modeling of micro-electromechanical-system (MEMS). He supports the MEMS course at the same University since 2004.

Vittorio is a researcher (RTDA) at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). His research career has consistently focused on complex photonics, beginning with his master’s thesis in physics at Sapienza on the nonlinear propagation of optical vortices in nonlocal media. He then pursued his PhD in Physics at the University of Sussex, where he developed expertise in THz hyperspectral imaging and scattering-assisted wavefront control in complex media. Following his doctorate, he held a Vice-Chancellor Independent Research Fellowship and the C-DICE Fellowship at Loughborough University (UK), before returning to Sapienza in August 2025. At Sapienza, he is exploring hollow-core fibres for endoscopic imaging and tumour treatment within the EIC Pathfinder Open project MULTISCOPE.

Fabio Mangini received Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Engineering in 2005 and the Master degree in Biomedical Engineer “cum laude” from “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy in 2008. He received the Ph.D. in Electromagnetism from the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, in the same University in 2014. In June 2014 and in May 2015 he won the prize “Young Scientist Award” for URSI (International Union of Radio Science), in January 2017 he won the “PhD ITalents” prize, and in October 2018 won the “Marabelli prize”. From 2009 till 2015 he worked with the Laboratory of Electromagnetic Fields II of “La Sapienza University of Rome”. His research activity has concerned guiding structures, numerical methods, theoretical scattering models, optical propagation, anisotropic media, and metamaterials, biomedical applications, cultural-heritage applications. Since April 2019 he is a researcher working in the Electromagnetic Fields and Photonics group at the University of Brescia.

Yifan Sun received his Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Information Science and Technology in 2013 from Xidian University (Xi’an, China) and his Master degree in radio physics in 2016 from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Chengdu, China). He defended his Ph.D. thesis, entitled “Theory of mode-locked lasers based on non-conventional cavity modes” from the LUMIN Laboratory, Université Paris-Saclay (Orsay, France) in January 2021. Since June 2021 he is a postdoctoral fellow working on ultrafast nonlinear phenomena in multimode optical fibers at the Nonlinear Photonics Lab of Sapienza University of Rome.

Mario Ferraro received the Bachelor’s degree in Physics “cum laude and special mention to the curriculum” in 2013 from University of Calabria (Italy) and the Master degree in Physics “cum laude” in 2015 from “La Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy). He has been awarded as excellent graduated student of “La Sapienza” University of Rome in 2016 and he received the Ph.D. in Physics in 2019 from the University of Côte d’Azur in Nice (France). His research activity has concerned nonlinear optics in nanodisordered media as well as semiconductor-based hyperbolic metameterials. Since January 2020 he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Engineering department of “La Sapienza” University of Rome working on ultrafast nonlinear phenomena in multimode optical fibers.

She earned Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2019 and Master’s degree in Optics in 2020, both from Wrocław University of Science and Technology (Poland), graduating as one of the top three students in the Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology.  Karolina obtained a joint PhD degree from University Bourgogne Franche-Comté (Dijon, France) and Wrocław University of Science and Technology for her thesis, “Experimental investigation of spatiotemporal nonlinear effects in multimode fibers,” defended in November 2024. During her doctorate, she was awarded the SPIE Optics and Photonics Scholarship for her potential long-term contributions to the field. Since January 2025, she has been a postdoctoral research fellow in the Nonlinear Photonics Lab at Sapienza University of Rome, focusing on nonlinear dynamics in optical fibers.