(2025)

Andrea Alù 

• Accademia di Ingegneria e Tecnologia (Ordinary Member), Italian Academy of Engineering and Technology
• Simons Society of Fellows (Senior Fellow), Simons Foundation
• Scientific Council (Chair), ISSNAF
• Frontiers of Science Award, International Congress of Basic Science – For the paper ‘Nonlocal Metasurfaces for Optical Signal Processing,’ by Hoyeong Kwon, Dimitrios Sounas, Andrea Cordaro, Albert Polman, and Andrea Alù – The Frontiers of Science Award (FSA) was inaugurated in 2023 under the auspices of the International Congress of Basic Sciences (ICBS) and sponsored by the City of Beijing and the Yanqi Lake Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Application (BIMSA). The FSA is awarded to a recent paper, recognized for a major breakthrough in its field. Each year, researchers worldwide are invited to nominate candidates for the award. A panel of renowned experts is asked to review and select a shortlist of award candidates in each research area. A Global Committee is appointed by the ICBS to recommend winners from a pool of shortlisted candidates from different research areas. The total value of the award is USD25,000.
• Visiting Professorship, University of Roma La Sapienza
• 2024 Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics Web of Science
• Highly Cited Researchers earn this distinction because, during the previous decade, they produced multiple highly cited papers. These are defined as papers ranking in the top 1% by citations, considering both year and field of publication.

Carl Bender 

• Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in April 2025.

Nadar Engheta 

• Recipient of the 2024 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society’s Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award.
• Recipient of the 2025 Rolf Landauer Medal from the ETOPIM (Elastic, Electrical, Transport, and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media Association).

Andrew Hofstrand

• Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Grant Number FA9550-23-1-0144.

Tsampikos Kottos

• Kottos, Lauren B. Dachs Endowed Professorship for Science and Society, Wesleyan University (09/01/2024-08/31/2029)

Mário Silveirinha 

• Invited lecturer at the Metamaterials Congress School, Crete, Greece, Sept. 2024.
• Member of the International Advisory Board for the Nobel Symposium entitled “Metamaterials science and technology: structuring light and sound in space and time”, 2026.
• Our article J. Feinberg, et al, “Plasmonic Time Crystals” was highlighted by the editors of PRL as an Editors’ Suggestion.
• Guest Editor (with A. Khanikaev, D. Smirnova, J. Allen, M. Allen) of a Feature Issue on “Floquet-engineered and non-Hermitian systems” for the journal Optical Materials Express.
• Organizer (with Paras Prasad) of the “International Workshop on Quantum and Topological Photonics Applied to Biotechnology”, May 29th, 2025 (Lisbon, Portugal)

Douglas Stone

• Max Born Award of Optica – 2025: for “…outstanding contributions to physical optics, theoretical or experimental.”
• Chair, APS Forum on History and Philosophy of Science.

Vincenzo Vitelli 

• CNRS fellow ambassador, awarded by the French National Center for Scientific research (CNRS).
• Chan Zuckerberg Bio-Hub Investigator.
• Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (2025).

Michael I. Weinstein

• Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2025 https://news.columbia.edu/news/three-columbia-faculty-members-elected-american-academy-arts-and-science
• Simons Senior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/09/12/the-simons-society-of-fellows-welcomes-senior-fellows-william-bialek-and-michael-weinstein/

(2024)

October 2, 2024: CUNY ASRC Photonics Initiative Director  Andrea Alù leads the groundbreaking @SimonsFdn project which allows scientists from across the globe to conduct experiments that illuminate our understanding of and ability to manipulate and control light & sound waves. https://bit.ly/3BkVzuX

September 24, 2024:  Andrea Alù received the 2024 Max Born award from Optica.

August 7, 2024: New paper on space-time nonlocal metasurfaces for event-based detection has been published in Physical Review Letters.

July 1, 2024: Andrea Alù was shortlisted as a nominee for the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize.

June 28, 2024: New paper on hyperbolic shear metasurfaces has been published in Physical Review Letters and featured as Editor’s Suggestion.

June 10, 2024: Andrea Alù joined the ISSNAF Scientific Council. [Interview]

June 6, 2024: Andrea Alù received the IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award for seminal contributions to the field of photonic metamaterials and their applications

May 29, 2024, Enriico Maria Renzi, ASRC PhD student. Has been awarded a 2024 Optics and Photonics Scholarship by SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, for potential contributions to optics, photonics, or a related field.

May 8, 2024, Tsampikos Kottos –  New paper on Optical Kinetics published in Physical Review Letters  featured as  Editor’s Suggestion

March 20, 2024, Vicenzo Vitelli – New paper on Turbulent Cascades published in Nature

March 9, 2024 – Andrea Alù Max Born Award by Optica for pioneering contributions to linear, nonlinear, and nonreciprocal photonic.

January 17, 2024 – New paper on Coherent Control of a Chaotic Stadium Microcavity with Reflectionless Scattering Modes, featured on the cover of Nature Physics here

Press Release here

January 10, 2024 – New review paper on Extreme Light Confinement and Control in Low-symmetry Phonon-Polaritonic Crystals in Nature Reviews Materials, featured on the cover here

January 10, 2024 – Andrea Alù  2024 SPIE Mozi Award for seminal contributions to the field of optical metamaterials as well as their applications for wavefront manipulation and enhancement of nonreciprocal and nonlinear phenomena

January 5, 2024 – Said Rahimzadeh-Kalaleh Rodriguez and Sander A. Mann – News and Views: Nature Photonics:  (Metamaterials) Heat-assisted Nonreciprocity

 

(2023)

Katia Bertoldi – 2023 Abacus Award for Faculty Collaboration with Staff. Harvard University

August 14, 2023 – New Nature Physics paper on Broadband coherent wave control through photonic collisions at time interfaces Press release: here

July 2023  – Andrea Alù  IEEE AP-S Distinguished Achievement Award Recipient for his pioneering contributions to metamaterial technologies and extreme electromagnetic wave phenomena 

June 12, 2023 – Andrea Alù, Dimitrios Sounas and Romain Fleury receive the 2021 Brillouin Medal at Phononics 2023 in Manchester, UK, for their work on non-reciprocal and topological phononics. The award was assigned in 2023, due to the COVID pandemic.  

March 2023 – Demetrios Christodoulides:  2023 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science Recipient

April 27, 2023 – Engheta Nadar: Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering, from the Franklin Institute

April 23, 2023 – Nader Engheta:  Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

May 22, 2023 – Nader Engheta:  2023 Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award 

 

(2022)

Andrea Alù – Distinguished Professor – City University of New York – The title of Distinguished Professor is conferred on an individual by the University Board of Trustees in recognition of exceptional scholarly achievement. CUNY Distinguished Professors comprise a small number of exceptional individuals. That number is currently limited to 250. Distinguished Professorships are reserved for faculty with records of exceptional performance by national and international standards of excellence in their profession. This honor is granted in recognition of the quality and impact of the nominee’s scholarship.

Andrea Alù, E. Galiffi, R. Tirole, S. Yin, H. Li, S. Vezzoli, P. A. Huidobro, M. G. Silveirinha, R. Sapienza, J. B. Pendry:  2022 Editor-in-Chief Choice Award for Advanced Photonics (Advanced Photonics, SPIE) For the paper “Photonics of time-varying media”, Advanced Photonics, Vol. 4, No. 1, 014002 (32 pages)

Andrea Alù: 2022 Annual Award of eLight (ELight, Springer Nature)  

Andrea Alù: 2022 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics Web of Science)  

Alexander B. Khanikaev: 2022 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics Web of Science)

May 2022 – Mário Silveirinha: Elected as a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon

April 13, 2022 – Nader Engheta:  2022 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture, Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), MIT

 

(2021)

August 3, 2021 – The first annual review meeting for the project has been scheduled for October 21-22, 2021. See event details

August 1, 2021 – The project is featured in the 2020 Simons Collaboration Annual Report: Leveraging Symmetries to Invent Exotic Materials

 

(2020)

November 12, 2020 – On the same wavelength: Scientists collaborate to explore symmetry, waves (Yale Daily News)

June 18, 2020 – Award Announced by the Simons Foundation