Gian-Luca Oppo — University of Strathclyde

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Personal Statement

Gian-Luca Oppo is the 1796 Freeland Chair in Natural Philosophy since 2015. He graduated from the Institute of Optics and the University of Florence, Italy, in 1983. He worked at the Universities of Toronto (1985-1987), Drexel in Philadelphia (1987-1989) and Nice (1989). Oppo joined Strathclyde in 1989 and became professor in 1998. Together with William Firth and Stephen Barnett, Oppo built the Computational Nonlinear and Quantum Optics group that was flagged 5* in the RAE in 2001. He created the Institute of Complex Systems at Strathclyde with Des Higham (Mathematics) in 2007. In 2011 Oppo was awarded the Occhialini Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics and the Italian Physical Society for outstanding insights into spatio-temporal dynamics of lasers, nonlinear and quantum optical systems, achieved through the development and application of powerful techniques for large-to-small-scale computing. In 2014 Oppo was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award for Most Enthusiastic Teacher at Strathclyde. Oppo's research profile and citations are available on Google Scholar.

Academic / Professional qualifications

Winner of the Occhialini medal and prize (2011)
Winner of the Teaching Excellence Award (2016)
Winner of the Teaching Excellence Award (2014)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2012)
Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1999)
Fellow of the institute of Physics (1997)

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Projects 2005 2021

5 Active
14 Finished

Theory and Simulation of Polarisation Frequency Combs in Microcavities

Oppo, G.

National Physical Laboratory NPL

1/10/17 → 30/09/21

Project: Research - Studentship › Research Studentship

Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Hill, Lewis

Oppo, G., Yao, A. & Hill, L.

EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

1/10/17 → 1/10/20

Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated › Research Studentship (Internally Allocated)

Research Output 1999 2018

1311 Citations
64 Article
6 Conference contribution
5 Letter
3 Chapter
5 More
- 2 Poster
- 1 Book
- 1 Abstract
- 1 Paper

1 Citations

Control of polarization rotation in nonlinear propagation of fully-structured light

Gibson, C. J., Bevington, P., Oppo, G-L. & Yao, A. M. 16 Mar 2018 In : Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 97, 3, 8 p., 033832

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

propagation

polarization

light beams

self propagation

nonlinearity

Spontaneous light-mediated magnetism in cold atoms

Krešić, I., Labeyrie, G., Robb, G. R. M., Oppo, G-L., Gomes, P. M., Griffin, P., Kaiser, R. & Ackemann, T. 10 Jul 2018 In : Communications Physics. 1, 9 p., 33

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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atoms

optical pumping

magnetic fields

Ising model

degrees of freedom

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A simple but precise method for quantitative measurement of the quality of the laser focus in a scanning optical microscope

Trägårdh, J. (Creator), Amor, R. (Creator), Travis, C. (Creator), Norris, G. (Creator), Wilson, S. (Creator), MacRae, K. (Creator), Oppo, G. (Creator), McConnell, G. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 10 Mar 2015

DOI: 10.15129/6bc7c405-9cef-4e73-af88-7eb039093514

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