# Roberto Morandotti

Roberto Morandotti is a physicist and full Professor, working in the Energy Materials Telecommunications Department of the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS-EMT, Montreal, Canada). The work of his team includes the areas of integrated and quantum photonics, nonlinear and singular optics, as well as terahertz photonics.

## Educational background

1993: M.Sc. Physics, University of Genoa 1999: Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow

## Professional background

1999-2001: Postdoctoral Researcher, Weizmann Institute of Science 2001-2002: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toronto 2003-2008: Associate Professor, INRS-EMT, Université du Québec 2008 - : Full Professor, INRS-EMT, Université du Québec

## Professional recognition, honors and awards

* Excellence Prize for Scholar Merit, Rotary Association
* PhD fellowship, Bilateral UK – Israeli Fund
* Postdoctoral Fellowship, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRSC) (UK)
* Postdoctoral Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science
* Marie Curie European Community Fellowship
* Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto
* FQRNT (Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies) Strategic Professor
* Fellow, Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN)
* Full Member (Fellow), Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
* Fellow of the OSA (Optical Society), for "seminal contributions to the field of nonlinear optics, in particular for the discovery of discrete optical solitons"
* Fellow of the SPIE, for "achievements in nonlinear optics and magneto-optics"
* Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
* Fellow of the Institute of Physics
* Fellow of the American Physical Society for "pioneering contributions in discrete optics, nonlinear dynamics, and nonlinear optics in the THz domain"
* Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "distinguished contributions to the field of nonlinear and quantum optics"
* Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering for "contributions to integrated nonlinear and quantum optics"
* NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow
* NSERC Synergy Award Recipient
* NSERC Brockhouse Award Recipient
* Marie-Victorin Award Recipient
* Urgel-Archambault Award Recipient

## Most important scientific contributions

* Experimental demonstration of discrete solitons and their dynamical properties.
* Demonstration of Anderson Localisations and band gap structures in waveguide arrays.
* Kerr spatio-temporal solitons in a planar glass waveguide (light bullets) and liquid crystals, X waves in bi-dispersive media, self-accelerating non-diffractive beams
* Ultrafast, extremely low power nonlinear optics in glass and semiconductor integrated waveguides
* Various contributions in the fields of linear and nonlinear optics in the THz Regime: A state of the art high power THz source to probe the nonlinear interaction of intense few-cycle terahertz pulses, demonstration of nonlinear wavelength conversion using THz waves, of new THz characterization techniques, including the first THz Optical Isolator.
* Demonstration of multiphoton, multidimensional and cluster complex quantum states using optical micro combs