PLASMONICA 2026

Program Overview

Latest update: June 8, 2026

Session I: Advanced imaging and microscopy techniques

Chair: Francesca Intonti

• 14:15–14:45 Paola Borri (Cardiff University), Coherent nonlinear optical microscopy with plasmonic nanoparticles
• 14:45–15:00 Florian Pagnini (University of Luxembourg), Towards sub-femtosecond, time-resolved imaging at the atomic scale
• 15:00–15:15 Camilla Gonzini (LENS and University of Florence), Imaging Quasi-BIC Modes in Silicon Metasurfaces with Hyperspectral Near-Field Microscopy
• 15:15–15:30 Martina Corsi (University of Pisa), 4D Plasmon-Encoded Polydimethylsiloxane Lenses for Portable Fluorescence Microscopy of Microorganisms
• 15:30–15:45 Aleksei Smirnov (University of Camerino), Plasmonic (Bio)Sensing in Tumour Cells: Discrepancies and Complementarity of Imaging Approaches
• 15:45–16:00 Alessandra Corrado (IIT and Università del Salento), Sputtering-Based Solid-State Dewetting for integrating plasmonic structures on the facet of optical fibers

Session II: Collective effects and metasurfaces

Chair: Monica Bollani

• 17:00–17:15 Andrea Vogliardi (University of Padova), Generation and topological reconfiguration of 2D and 3D skyrmions via spin-decoupled metasurfaces
• 17:15–17:30 Giuseppe Emanuele Lio (University of Pisa), Probing Concealed Fabry-Pérot Resonances Using Dual-Beam Coherent Absorption
• 17:30–17:45 Alberto Santonocito (CNR), A magnetically switchable bifocal metasurface
• 17:45–18:00 Angela Capocefalo (CNR and Sapienza University of Rome), Re-entrant plasmon coupling in thermoresponsive colloids
• 18:00–18:15 Vincenzo Aglieri (IIT), Introducing the Degree of Collectivity in Lattice Resonances of Plasmonic Nanoparticle Arrays
• 18:15–18:30 Alessio Bruttomesso (Optoprim), TBA

Session III: Plasmonics for catalysis and energy

Chair: Alessio Gabbani

• 09:00–09:30 Jacinto Sá (Uppsala University), Plasmon: from metal ore to nanocatalyst
• 09:30–09:45 Alberto Naldoni (University of Turin), Photocatalysis with titanium nitride nanoplasmonics
• 09:45–10:00 Emanuele Coccia (University of Trieste), Modelling plasmon-mediated photocatalysis
• 10:00–10:15 Fatemeh Kiani (ETH Zürich), Probing Plasmonic CO2 Reduction Catalysis: Wavelength- and Size-Dependent Selectivity
• 10:15–10:30 Rajesh Chennuboina (University of Genoa), Broadband light harvesting with flat-optics 2D TMD-plasmonic nanoarrays
• 10:30–10:45 Ajay Poonia (Umeå University), Boosting light outcoupling in light emitting electrochemical cells using Si nano-scatterers

Session IV: Photonic and dielectric structures

Chair: Stefania Benedetti

• 11:30–11:45 Gabriele Calusi (University of Florence and LENS), Lifshitz-like States in Hyperuniform Disordered Photonic Networks
• 11:45–12:00 Sonia Freddi (CNR), Templated Germanium Dewetted Mie Resonators for Sensing Applications
• 12:00–12:15 Alice Sindoni (University of Padova), Ultrafast dynamics in epsilon-near-zero multilayer metamaterials
• 12:15–12:30 Francesco Vitucci (Crisel Instruments) 2D SPAD arrays vs cameras: a comparison of emerging spad array based sensors with conventional image devices

Session V: Chirality in plasmonics and nanostructures

Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Alessandro Belardini

Chair: Emilija Petronijevic

• 14:00–14:15 Emilija Petronijevic (Sapienza University of Rome), Remembering Professor Alessandro Belardini: our journey from chiro-optical effects in nanostructures to widely tunable laser photo-acoustic spectrosopy
• 14:15–14:30 Claudia Skubisz (Sapienza University of Rome), Photo-acoustic spatial mapping of chirality
• 14:30–14:45 Giovanna Capizzi (Sapienza University of Rome), All-optical investigation of chirality-driven interactions of spherical gold nanoparticles
• 14:45–15:00 Pablo Albella Echave (University of Cantabria), Nanophotonics for Biomedical Applications: From Chiral Optical Forces to Directional Photothermal Therapies

Session VI: Thermoplasmonic effects

Chair: Antonio Ferraro

• 15:00–15:15 Antonio Garcia-Martin (CSIC), Optical properties of VO2/Au metasurfaces
• 15:15–15:30 Cecilia Romeo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), 2D materials for control of nanoscale optical heating
• 15:30–15:45 Beatrice Muzzi (CNR), Star shaped magnetic-plasmonic Au@Fe3O4 nano-heterostructures for photothermal therapy
• 15:45–16:00 Claudia Triolo (Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria), Wavelength-Dependent Modulation of Thermal and Thermo-Plasmonic Properties in Porphyrin Aggregates

Session VII: Polaritonics

Chair: Stefano Corni

• 17:00–17:15 Dario Baldon (University of Padova), 2D-ES Analysis of Colloidal Plexcitonic Nanohybrids
• 17:15–17:30 Armando Genco (University of Pisa), Coherent and incoherent exciton-polaritons dynamics in van der Waals semiconductor metasurfaces
• 17:30–17:45 Alexey Nikitin (Donostia International Physics Center), Hyperbolic polaritons in van der Waals crystals
• 17:45–18:00 Valeria Nocerino (University of Naples Federico II), Fano-Type Asymmetric Scattering in Bimetallic Ag-Au Core-shell Nanoislands
• 18:00–18:15 Roozbeh Shokri (Thorlabs), Thorlabs Quantum Optics Kit: Experiments with Single Photons

Session VIII: Ultrafast, infrared and terahertz

Chair: Maria Caterina Giordano

• 09:00–09:30 Lorenzo Tesi (University of Stuttgart), Plasmonic Metasurface Resonators for Terahertz Magnetic Resonance Investigating 2D Magnetic Materials
• 09:30–09:45 Tersilla Virgili (CNR), Tailoring the Ultra-Fast Infrared Optical Response of Al:ZnO Through Nanostructuration
• 09:45–10:00 Alessandro Pitanti (University of Pisa and CNR), Nonlinear enhancement of far-infrared thermomechanical bolometers
• 10:00–10:15 Hannes Kempf (Umeå University), Spatiotemporal excitation of Bloch plasmon polaritons in hyperbolic metamaterials
• 10:15–10:30 Emmanuele Cannavò (University of Pisa), Babinet principle, inverse design and non-local effects: investigating phonon-polariton microstructures in the infrared region
• 10:30–10:45 Greta Sambucari (LENS), Ultrafast spectroscopic insight into thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) in donor–acceptor dyads

Session IX: Sensing and SERS

Chair: Claudia Fasolato

• 11:30–11:45 Alessia Santiglia (University of Milan), Interfacial Plasmonics for Ultrasensitive SERS Detection of Organic Dyes
• 11:45–12:00 Francesca Torrini (CNR), Programmable coacervates as plasmonic boxes for biomolecule sensing via Raman spectroscopy
• 12:00–12:15 Jacopo Cardellini (University of Florence), Liposome-Gold Nanoparticles hybrid for Reproducible SERS Tags in Bioanalytical Applications
• 12:15–12:30 Sveva Sodomaco (Scuola Normale Superiore), Multiscale atomistic modeling of SERS and SEHRS in amino acids and nucleobases
• 12:30–12:45 Luisa Ponticelli (LENS), A nanoplasmonic-magnetic bioorthogonal sandwich-like immunoassay for the selective capturing and detection of Alzheimer’s disease pathological biomarkers in biological fluids

Poster Session A

1. Leonetta Baldassarre (Sapienza University of Rome), Raman Spectroscopy with 1550 nm Excitation Enhanced by Optical Antennas
2. Fritz Berkmann (Brandenburg University of Technology), TiN nanohole arrays as integrated plasmonic NIR wavelength filter for multispectral imaging
3. Sofia Biscotti (Sapienza University of Rome), Digital holography for the reconstruction of particles suspended in diamagnetic drops levitated in a magneto-gravitational trap
4. Samuele Botticelli (University of Pisa, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, Pisa, Italy), Modelling exciton-polaritons within an extended Frenkel Hamiltonian framework
5. Simone Cassandra (CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay), Mid-IR SESAMs for fiber lasers mode-locking at 3.6 um based on intersubband transitions in strong coupling
6. Cristiano D'Andrea (CNR), Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Artificial Intelligence for improved Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Using Cerebrospinal Fluid Analysis
7. Lorenzo Dei Rossi (University of Padova), Exploring Chiral Polaritons: Chirality Transfer in the Strong Coupling Regime
8. Faycal Djeffal (University of Batna), Plasmonic enhancement in ZnO–Au–ZnO trilayer structures: Effect of top ZnO thickness and annealing-induced Au nanoparticles
9. Elisa Elli (CNR and University of Pisa), Tailoring Silver Nanoparticles to Match Organic Dye Properties in SERS Analysis
10. Reda Er Roukhou (Abdelmalek Essaadi University), Plasmonic sensor based on multiple Fano resonances in metal-insulator-metal waveguide coupled with a triangular ring-like cavity and groove
11. Antonio Ferraro (CNR), Exploiting Cholesteric Liquid Crystals based Physical Unclonable Functions for One Time Password generation
12. Sonia Freddi (CNR), From design to fabrication of dielectric metasurfaces: process optimization, ICP-RIE engineering and nonlinear optical response
13. Maria Gambelli (Sapienza University of Rome and CNR), Design, material growth and fabrication of ISB-based antenna-coupled detectors in Ge-rich SiGe heterostructures
14. Wejden Gazehi (National Engineering School of Tunis), Comparative analysis of classical and quantum machine learning models for nanomaterial property classification
15. Maria Caterina Giordano (University of Genova), Flat-optics nanostripes & hybrid 2D-plasmonic nanoantennas for directional light scattering and photon emission
16. Nicoletta Granchi (University of Florence), Improved Disorder Resilience in Small-Footprint Photonic Cavities with Periodicity Breaking
17. Hrishikesh Ingole (Sapienza University of Rome), Development of Atomic Force Microscopy-assisted Terahertz Imaging to Probe Individual Protein Nano-Structures
18. Francesca Intonti (University of Florence and LENS), Fabrication of broad-band, wide-angle antireflective structures for high-power laser applications via nano-imprint lithography
19. Marco Salvatori (University of Pisa), Plasmonic Indium Tin Oxide Nano Crystals for IR-Thermal Imaging Cameras
20. Nicola Steffenato (University of Pisa), Tuning magneto-optical response of copper tetraphenylporphyrin by means of supramolecular organization and of plasmon-molecule interactions
21. Chaima Gharbi (National Engineering School of Tunis), Comparative Analysis of Boosting-Based Machine Learning Algorithms for Nanoparticle Property Classification
22. Giorgia Granocchia (CNR), Innovative antenna materials for energy transfer applications

Poster Session B

1. Marzia Ferrera (IIT and EPFL), Engineered Plasmonic Nanohybrids and Nanoelectrodes for High-Resolution Electrochemical Microscopy
2. Marco Ierani (Sapienza University of Rome), Terahertz metamaterial sensors based on asymmetric Split Ring Resonators for biosensing
3. Chaimaa Moukhfi (University of Pisa), Shaping luminescence in lanthanide doped halide nanocrystals
4. Valeria Nocerino (University of Naples Federico II), Neural Network-Assisted Design and Experimental Validation of Ag@Au Plasmonic Nanoislands for Biosensing Applications
5. Agostino Occhicone (Sapienza University of Rome), Mid-Infrared ellipsometry enhanced by means of localized electromagnetic states of a one-dimensional photonic crystal
6. Costanza Paccagnini (University of Pisa), Circularly polarized lasing cavities using cellulose nanocrystal as polarization-selective reflectors
7. Gianmarco Papi (University of Pisa), Undoped and Sn-doped In2O3 Nanocrystals: a versatile platform for infrared plasmonic applications
8. Nicolò Petrini (Politecnico di Torino), Multi-Layer Optical Modeling for Metal Oxide Nanocrystals
9. Marcello Pozzi (ETH Zurich), Coupling quasi-bound states in the continuum to broadband resonances in network metamaterials
10. Abdul Qadeer (Scuola Normale Superiore), Atomistic Modeling of Plasmonic Au@Ag Nanostructures
11. Sufian Rasheed (University of Potsdam), Plasmon-Driven Retro-Diels–Alder Reactions at the Single-Particle Level in Nanoparticle-on-Mirror Nanocavities
12. Karen Regules Medel (University of Nottingham), Modelling ion-specific refractive index changes at charged interfaces
13. Philip Schäfer (Attocube Systems GmbH, Neaspec (ALX)), Real Space Visualization of Plasmons using Scattering SNOM
14. Elkin Daniel Sepúlveda Álvarez (Universidad de los Andes), TMOKE Enhancement via Hybrid Fabry–Perot-Plasmonic Modes in Magnetoplasmonic Multilayers
15. Prasenjit Prasad Sukul (University of Padova), Angle-dependent upconversion tuning for white light generation in 1D-Microcavity structures
16. Oussama Tata (University Mohammed VI Polytechnic), Multisubband plasmons in an InAs/GaSb broken-gap quantum well
17. Marco Turriani (INSTM and University of Pisa), Shape‐changing multiphase microlenses from Complex Liquid Crystal Emulsions: a proof of concept.
18. Niccolò Ulivieri (University of Florence), Lanthanide complexes with Trensal ligand as NIR emitters: from solution to vacuum-sublimated films
19. Liliana Valente (University of Calabria and CNR), Investigation of Chiral-Material Interaction and Sensing Capabilities in a Plasmonic Metasurfaces
20. Ayse Mine Saridag (Gaziantep University), Detection of Cancer Protein Biomarkers in Serum Using SERS on a Plasmonic Nanocomposite Strip
21. Muhammad Tayyab (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals), Regulating redox sites for photocatalytic phenylcarbinol conversion and H2 production on lattice-matched Schottky junction