ProfessorRiccardo Sapienza
Vice Dean (Research) for FoNS, Professor of Physics
Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Vice Dean (Research) for FoNS, Professor of PhysicsDepartment of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- 020 7594 9577 (Work)
- B913, Blackett Laboratory, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Riccardo Sapienza is Professor of Physics and Vice-Dean for Research of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London, where he is also Joint Director of the Centre for Plasmonics and Metamaterials. His research explores how light interacts with nanostructured matter, spanning optical metamaterials, unconventional lasing, and neuromorphic photonic computing. He is co-founder and co-CTO of the spin-out RAYD Technologies, which translates this research into practice.
He earned his PhD jointly from the Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) in Florence and the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris, and held postdoctoral positions at the Institute of Materials Science (ICMM-CSIC) in Madrid and ICFO – the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona. He was on the faculty of King's College London before joining Imperial in 2017.
More at sapienzalab.org
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Deputy Head of Department - ResearchImperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom1 May 2023 - 1 Jan 2026
- vice-Dean (Research) FoNSImperial College London, London, United Kingdom1 May 2026 - present
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- CTORayd Technology, United Kingdom1 Oct 2025 - present
FACULTY
- Faculty of Natural Sciences
POSITION NAME
- Vice Dean (Research) for FoNS, Professor of Physic