PLASMONICA 2026

Program Overview

Latest update: June 8, 2026

Session I: Advanced imaging and microscopy techniques

• 14:15–14:45 Paola Borri (Cardiff University), TBA
• 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

• 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 Elizabeth Mendoza-Sandoval (University of Padova), Effect of the surface lattice resonance modes on the emission efficiency of plasmonic nanolasers
• 18:00–18:15 Angela Capocefalo (CNR and Sapienza University of Rome), Re-entrant plasmon coupling in thermoresponsive colloids
• 18:15–18:30 Vincenzo Aglieri (IIT), Introducing the Degree of Collectivity in Lattice Resonances of Plasmonic Nanoparticle Arrays
• 18:30–18:45 Sponsor talk

Session III: Plasmonics for catalysis and energy

• 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

• 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 Angela Barreda (University Carlos III of Madrid), Enhancing Light–Matter Interactions with Plasmonic–Dielectric Nanostructures
• 12:15–12:30 Alice Sindoni (University of Padova), Ultrafast dynamics in epsilon-near-zero multilayer metamaterials
• 12:30–12:45 Sponsor Talk

Session V: Chirality in plasmonics and nanostructures

Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Alessandro Belardini

• 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

• 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

• 17:00–17:15 Elisabetta Collini (University of Padova), Vibrationally Mediated Coherent Energy Exchange in Plexcitonic Nanomaterials
• 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 Sponsor Talk

Session VIII: Ultrafast, infrared and terahertz

• 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

• 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

• Leonetta Baldassarre (Sapienza University of Rome), Raman Spectroscopy with 1550 nm Excitation Enhanced by Optical Antennas
• Dario Baldon (University of Padova), 2D-ES Analysis of Colloidal Plexcitonic Nanohybrids
• Fritz Berkmann (Brandenburg University of Technology), TiN nanohole arrays as integrated plasmonic NIR wavelength filter for multispectral imaging
• Sofia Biscotti (Sapienza University of Rome), Digital holography for the reconstruction of particles suspended in diamagnetic drops levitated in a magneto-gravitational trap
• Samuele Botticelli (University of Pisa, Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, Pisa, Italy), Modelling exciton-polaritons within an extended Frenkel Hamiltonian framework
• Stefano Campanaro (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Tunable superplanckian near-field radiative heat transfer in hyperbolic metamaterials
• 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
• Cristiano D'Andrea (CNR), Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Artificial Intelligence for improved Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis Using Cerebrospinal Fluid Analysis
• Lorenzo Dei Rossi (University of Padova), Exploring Chiral Polaritons: Chirality Transfer in the Strong Coupling Regime
• Faycal Djeffal (University of Batna), Plasmonic enhancement in ZnO–Au–ZnO trilayer structures: Effect of top ZnO thickness and annealing-induced Au nanoparticles
• Elisa Elli (CNR and University of Pisa), Tailoring Silver Nanoparticles to Match Organic Dye Properties in SERS Analysis
• 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
• Antonio Ferraro (CNR), Exploiting Cholesteric Liquid Crystals based Physical Unclonable Functions for One Time Password generation
• Maria Gambelli (Sapienza University of Rome and CNR), Design, material growth and fabrication of ISB-based antenna-coupled detectors in Ge-rich SiGe heterostructures
• Wejden Gazehi (National Engineering School of Tunis), Comparative analysis of classical and quantum machine learning models for nanomaterial property classification
• Armando Genco (University of Pisa), Coherent and incoherent exciton-polaritons dynamics in van der Waals semiconductor metasurfaces
• Chaima Gharbi (National Engineering School of Tunis), Comparative Analysis of Boosting-Based Machine Learning Algorithms for Nanoparticle Property Classification
• Maria Caterina Giordano (University of Genova), Flat-optics nanostripes & hybrid 2D-plasmonic nanoantennas for directional light scattering and photon emission
• Nicoletta Granchi (University of Florence), Improved Disorder Resilience in Small-Footprint Photonic Cavities with Periodicity Breaking
• Giorgia Granocchia (CNR), Innovative antenna materials for energy transfer applications
• Marco Ierani (Sapienza University of Rome), Terahertz metamaterial sensors based on asymmetric Split Ring Resonators for biosensing
• Hrishikesh Ingole (Sapienza University of Rome), Development of Atomic Force Microscopy-assisted Terahertz Imaging to Probe Individual Protein Nano-Structures
• Francesca Intonti (University of Florence and LENS), Fabrication of broad-band, wide-angle antireflective structures for high-power laser applications via nano-imprint lithography

Poster Session B

• Chaimaa Moukhfi (University of Pisa), Shaping luminescence in lanthanide doped halide nanocrystals
• Agostino Occhicone (Sapienza University of Rome), Mid-Infrared ellipsometry enhanced by means of localized electromagnetic states of a one-dimensional photonic crystal
• Michele Ortolani (Sapienza University of Rome), Mid-infrared nonlinearities in heavily-doped semiconductor nanoantennas and waveguides
• Costanza Paccagnini (University of Pisa), Circularly polarized lasing cavities using cellulose nanocrystal as polarization-selective reflectors
• Gianmarco Papi (University of Pisa), Undoped and Sn-doped In2O3 Nanocrystals: a versatile platform for infrared plasmonic applications
• Marcello Pozzi (ETH Zurich), Coupling quasi-bound states in the continuum to broadband resonances in network metamaterials
• Abdul Qadeer (Scuola Normale Superiore), Atomistic Modeling of Plasmonic Au@Ag Nanostructures
• Sufian Rasheed (University of Potsdam), Plasmon-Driven Retro-Diels–Alder Reactions at the Single-Particle Level in Nanoparticle-on-Mirror Nanocavities
• Karen Regules Medel (University of Nottingham), Modelling ion-specific refractive index changes at charged interfaces
• Anyi Ximena Rodríguez Rodríguez (Universidad Central of Bogotá), Affinity of Bifidobacterium adolescentis protein postbiotics and infectious rotavirus particles
• Marco Salvatori (University of Pisa), Plasmonic Indium Tin Oxide Nano Crystals for IR-Thermal Imaging Cameras
• Ayse Mine Saridag (Gaziantep University), Detection of Cancer Protein Biomarkers in Serum Using SERS on a Plasmonic Nanocomposite Strip
• Philip Schäfer (Attocube Systems GmbH, Neaspec (ALX)), Real Space Visualization of Plasmons using Scattering SNOM
• Elkin Daniel Sepúlveda Álvarez (Universidad de los Andes), TMOKE Enhancement via Hybrid Fabry–Perot-Plasmonic Modes in Magnetoplasmonic Multilayers
• Nicola Steffenato (University of Pisa), Tuning magneto-optical response of copper tetraphenylporphyrin by means of supramolecular organization and of plasmon-molecule interactions
• Prasenjit P Sukul (University of Padova), Angle-dependent upconversion tuning for white light generation in 1D-Microcavity structures
• Oussama Tata (University Mohammed VI Polytechnic), Multisubband plasmons in an InAs/GaSb broken-gap quantum well
• Muhammad Tayyab (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals), Regulating redox sites for photocatalytic phenylcarbinol conversion and H2 production on lattice-matched Schottky junction
• Marco Turriani (INSTM and University of Pisa), Shape‐changing multiphase microlenses from Complex Liquid Crystal Emulsions: a proof of concept.
• Niccolò Ulivieri (University of Florence), Lanthanide complexes with Trensal ligand as NIR emitters: from solution to vacuum-sublimated films
• Liliana Valente (University of Calabria and CNR), Investigation of Chiral-Material Interaction and Sensing Capabilities in a Plasmonic Metasurfaces