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This is my online curriculum vitae, featuring interactivity for online browsing. A printable version is also available though probably less up-to-date.

Personal details

• First name: Fabrice (Second name: Pierre)
• Family name: LAUSSY
• Nationality: French
• Born: September 30, 1977 (47.3 years old).
• Birth place: Clermont-Ferrand (France).
• Marital status: Married, one child.

Contact

• Address: University of Wolverhampton, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Wulfruna St, Wolverhampton WV1 1LY, UK.
• Email: fabrice.laussy@gmail.com and/or F.Laussy@wlv.ac.uk.
• Web: http://laussy.org (which is, basically, here).

See our contact page for all details regarding how to contact me in all possible configurations.

Research Career

Ph. D.

• Ph. D. 2005 in theoretical physics, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
• Thesis director: Prof. Alexey Kavokin (alexey@phys.soton.ac.uk)
• Thesis title: "Quantum dynamics of microcavity polaritons"
• Thesis Jury: Dr. Jacqueline Bloch, Pr. Alexey Kavokin (director), Pr. Stephan Koch, Dr. Guillaume Malpuech (invited), Pr. Paolo Scwhendimann (president), Pr. Carlos Tejedor and Dr. David Whittaker (rapporteurs).
• Mention: "Très honorable avec félicitations du jury" (highest French distinction).

Post-Doctoral experience

• Post-Doctoral Researcher (July 2005) in the group headed by Pr. David Whittaker of the LDSD (Low Dimensional Structures and Devices) group, headed by Pr. M. S. Skolnick, at the University of Sheffield, UK.
• Post-Doctoral Researcher (January 2007) in the group of Pr. Carlos Tejedor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain.
• Post-Doctoral Researcher (July 2008) in the group of Pr. Alexey Kavokin at the University of Southampton, UK.
• Marie Curie IEF fellow leading the project SQOD in Jonathan Finley's group at the Walter Schottky Institut in the Technische Universität München, Munich (June 2010).
• Ramón y Cajal position at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, June 2012 (5 years tenure track).
• Visiting Researcher in the Russian Quantum Center, Moscow (Senior staff, since January 2015).

Permanent position

• Principal Lecturer and Director of Studies for Physics at the University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK, since 6 January (2017).

Membership of Scientific Societies

1. Since 2010, member of the Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics (MIFP).
2. Since January 2017, member of the IOP (MInstP).

Scientific Output

Publications by Journals

Nature 457:291 (2009); Nature Physics 6:527 (2010); Nature Photonics 8:550 (2014); Light: Science & Applications 4:e350 (2015); Nature Communication 6:8993 (2015); Sci Rep. 6:28930 (2016); Sci. Rep. 6:37980 (2016); Nature Materials 16:398 (2017). PRL 91:156403 (2003); PRL 93:016402 (2004); PRL 101:083601 (2008); PRL 103:096404 (2009); PRL 104:106402 (2010); PRL 105:233601 (2010); PRL 109:183601 (2012); PRL 112:113602 (2014); PRL 113:226401 (2014); PRL 114:233601 (2015); PRL 115:196402 (2015); PRL 116:026401 (2016); PRL 116:249902 (2016); PRL 118:215301 (2017) Laser Phot. Rev. 1700090 (2017) NJP 13:113014 (2011); NJP 15:033036 (2013); NJP 17:010201 (2015); NJP 17:123021 (2015); NJP 18:023041 (2016); PRB 68:085311 (2003). PRB 73:035315 (2006); PRB 73:115343 (2006); PRB 76:235317 (2007); PRB 78:085304 (2008); PRB 79:235325 (2009); PRB 79:235326 (2009); PRB 81:035302 (2010); PRA 84:043816 (2011); PRB 84:085320 (2011); PRB 84:195313 (2011); PRB 90:035413 (2014); PRA 90:052111 (2014); PRA 91:043807 (2015); PRA 94:063825 (2016); PRA 94:063826 (2016). PRB 96:125423 (2017).

Selected Work

1. Microcavities, 2nd ed., A.V. Kavokin, J.J. Baumberg, G. Malpuech and F.P. Laussy, Oxford University Press (2017) [1]
2. Strong coupling of quantum dots in microcavities, F.P. Laussy, E. del Valle and C. Tejedor, Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 083601, 2008. [2]
3. Mollow triplet under incoherent pumping, E. del Valle and F.P. Laussy, Phys. Rev. Lett., 105, 233601 (2010). [3]
4. Collective fluid dynamics of a polariton condensate in a semiconductor microcavity, A. Amo, D. Sanvitto, F. P. Laussy, D. Ballarini, E. del Valle, M. D. Martin, A. Lemaître, J. Bloch, D. N. Krizhanovskii, M. S. Skolnick, C. Tejedor, and L. Viña. Nature, 457, 291, 2009. [4]
5. Theory of frequency-filtered and time-resolved $N$-photon correlations, E. del Valle, A. Gonzalez-Tudela, F.P. Laussy, C. Tejedor and M.J. Hartmann, Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, 183601 (2012). [5]

See also our page of publications.

Identifiers

• Google scholar: user=8V5GE_IAAAAJ
• ORCID: 0000-0002-1070-7128
• Research ID: C-3646-2016
• Scopus: 6602258223

Media Coverage

Going with the flow, J. Keeling & N.G. Berloff, Nature (2009).

A bundle of photons, please, Dmitry V. Strekalov, Nature Photonics (2014).

Strom ohne Widerstand, Franziska Konitzer, bild der wissenschaft (2015).

Exciting Polaritons with Quantum Light, J. C. López Carreño, C. Sánchez Muñoz, D. Sanvitto, E. del Valle, and F. P. Laussy Phys. Rev. Lett. 115:196402 (2015).

Exciton-mediated superconductivity, A. Kavokin & P. Lagoudakis, Nature Materials (2016).

Synopsis: When Quantum Light Meets Matter, Ana Lopes, Physics (2016).

La révolution perpétuelle de la recherche russe, David Larousserie, Le Monde, (2017).

A new way to correlate photons, F.P. Laussy, Nature Materials, (2017).

Journal Cover (Physical Review Letters) from Macroscopic Two-Dimensional Polariton Condensates, D. Ballarini et al., (2017).

Scientific Events

Schools

As a student

1. Varenna school CL - "Electron and Photon Confinement in Semiconductor Nanostructures", Varenna (Italy). 25 June-5 July 2002. Student.
2. Varenna school CLI - "Quantum Phenomena of Mesoscopic Systems", Varenna (Italy). 9-19 July 2002. Student.
3. School on Atomic Quantum Fluids, Brasilia (Brasil). August 2007. Attendant.

As a professor

1. Maratea International Summer School of Nanophotonics, Maratea (Italy). September 2005. Professor.
2. International School of Nanophotonics and Photovoltaics, Santiago de Cuba (Cuba). January 2009. Professor.
3. International School of Nanophotonics and Photovoltaics, Maratea (Italy). 17-24 September 2009. Professor.
4. Cefalu International School of Nanophotonics and Photovoltaics, Cefalu (Italy), 15-23 September 2015. Professor.

Conferences

Invited Seminars

1. "Strong-Coupling of quantum dots in microcavities" at the University of Sheffield, UK, November 2008.
2. "Cavity QED under incoherent pumping: the case of quantum dots in microcavities" in the Arbeitsgruppe Theoretische Festkörperphysik of Universität Bremen, 9 November 2010.
3. "Cavity QED with quantum dots in microcavities" at the SFB 787 Halbleiter-Nanophotonik of the Technische Universität Berlin, 7 December 2010.
4. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012" at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, CV, departmental seminar, 28 November 2012.
5. "Quantum optics and photon correlations", At the Coloquio del departamento de Física of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota (Colombia), 28 June 2013.
6. "Casando la luz con la materia" in the Programa de la Jornada de Divulgación de la Investigación at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain), 15 February 2013.
7. "Polariton-powered devices: lasers, superfluids and superconductors" at the QSIT Seminar of the ETH[6], Zurich (Switzerland), 30 July 2013.
8. "How to bunch two photons?" for the Departmental seminar, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 14 October 2015.
9. "Two New Kinds of Light" at the RQC for the International Year of Light, 3 December 2015.
10. "Two New Kinds of Light" at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid for the International Year of Light, 18 December 2015.
11. "Exciting with quantum light" at the QUINFOG, CSIC, 14 September 2016.
12. "Differences and similarities between classical and quantum processing units" at the Quantum Light and Matter group of the University of Southampton, 16 October 2017.

See also the list of talks from my students.

Visits & Stays

1. Brasilia (Brasil). Two months visit at the ICCMP (International Centre of Condensed Matter Physics). July-August 2007.
2. Reykjavik (Iceland). One week visit at the Dept. of Physics of the University of Iceland. April 2009.
3. Cardiff (Wales). One day visit of Prof. Langbein's group (with Elena del Valle). October 2009.
4. Saint-Petersburg (Russia). Two weeks visit of the IOFFE institute. June 2010.
5. Bogotá (Colombia). Ten days visit at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. July 2013.
6. London (UK). One week visit of Queen's College. December 2015.

Project meetings & Workshops

1. CoPhen04. Gregynog (Wales). 2004.
2. QOIT project, Barcelona (Spain). November 2006. Poster.
3. QOIT project, Barcelona (Spain). 25-31 January 2008. Poster.
4. SOLID Workshop, WSI, Munich (Germany). 8 October 2010. Talk.
5. MIFP March Meeting. Castelli Romani (Italy). March 2011. Talk.
6. NanoTUM workshop in Garching (Germany), 1st June 2011.
7. Memory-effects in solids workshop at the Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin (Germany). 30 November-02 December 2011. Invited talk.
8. MIFP March Meeting. Castelli Romani (Italy). March 2012. Talk.
9. 3rd MIFP March Meeting. March 2013. Talk.
10. Polaflow Annual Meeting, Lecce. September 2013. Talk.
11. Polaflow Annual Meeting, Rome. April 2014. Talk.
12. Polaflow Annual Meeting, Madrid. April 2015. Talk.

Theses

As a director

Defended

1. David Colas, on "Dynamics of polariton wave packets", 2013—2016, Director, defended on 20 July (2016), awarded with cum Laude (with 5 votes in a secret ballot) and awarded with a Premio Extraordinario.
2. Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, on "Generation of Non Classical States of Light", co-director with Carlos Tejedor, 2013—2016, defended on 19 December (2016) and awarded with cum Laude (with 5 votes in a secret ballot).
3. Blanca Silva, on "Reaching Quantum Polaritons", co-director with Daniele Sanvitto, 2013—2016, defended on 20 December (2016).

Ongoing

1. Camilo López Carreño, on "Exciting with quantum light", Director.

As member of a tribunal

1. Alejandro Gonzalez-Tudela, Secretario for the Jury, at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 22 January 2013.
2. Dmitrii Visnevski, Rapporteur de thèse at LASMEA, Clermont-Ferrand (France), July 2013.
3. Anastasiia Pervishko, Expert for the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, August 2016.

Students & Post-doc

Current

Ph. D

1. Juan Camilo López Carreño, Ph. D Student (1 March 2014--ongoing)

Undergraduate

1. Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua, Trabajo de Fin de Grado.

Past

1. Michael Schrapp, Diploma Thesis (November 2010--December 2011)
2. Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Ph. D Student (September 2012--19 December 2016).
3. Blanca Silva Fernández, Ph. D Student (June 2013--20 December 2016).
4. David Colas, Ph. D Student (1 September 2013--1 September 2016).
5. Dmitrii Visnevskii, Post. Doc (1 September 2013--31 October 2014)
6. William Júnio Lima, Ph. D Student, co-supervision [for one year] with Prof. José-Maria Villas-Boas (11 November 2013--August 2014)
7. Guillermo Guirales, Ph. D Student, co-supervision [for six months] with Prof. Boris Rodriguez (1 February 2014--July 2014)
8. Juan Pablo Restrepo Cuartas, Ph. D Student (13 February 2014--December 2015)
9. Elena del Valle, Marie Curie IEF (1 March 2014--15 December 2014)
10. Juan Camilo López Carreño, Master Thesis (1 March 2014--3 July 2015)
11. Amir Rahmani, Visiting Ph. D Student (1 March 2015--September 2015).
12. Isabel Andrade, Visiting Ph. D Student (1 October 2015--February 2016).
13. Santiago Álvarez Tolcheff, Trabajo de Fin de Grado (February--June 2015).
14. Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua, Trabajo de Fin de Grado (September--December 2015).
15. Miriam Garcia Santa-Maria, Trabajo de Fin de Grado (September--December 2015).
16. Marcos Rodriguez Muñoz, Trabajo de Fin de Grado (September--December 2015).

Teaching

I taught Mathematical Methods II (complex analysis), Computación I (Numerical Methods) and laboratory sessions at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

I am currently Director of Studies for Physics at the University of Wolverhampton.

Administration

Referee

I am a Referee for Nature, Nat. Phot., Nat. Phys., Nat. Com., Scientific Reports and regularly for Phys. Rev. (Lett., A & B), New J. Phys., Opt. Lett., and several other journals of the IOP.

Expert

I am an expert for reviewing committees:

• The European Union (Marie Curie IEF panel & redress committee).
• The executive government agency of Poland National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki)
• The Icelandic Research Fund, Rannis.

Conference Committee

• Annic2016, 9-11 November 2016, Barcelona (Spain).

Institutional Roles

• Student delegate in Scientific Counsil of Université Blaise Pascal (2002-2005).
• Founder of Ph. D. seminars "Florin Périer" of Université Blaise Pascal (2003-2005).
• Scientific secretary of international workshops "Colloque Franco-Russe" (2004 & 2005).
• Scientific secretary of PLMCN7 international conference, la Habana, Cuba (2007).

Funding

Current

• European Research Council starting grant (ERC), codename PolaFlow, 293 000€.
• Mineco, codename CLAQUE (2016--2018), 115 000€.

Past

• Ramón y Cajal position (June 2012--May 2017), 173 000€.
• Marie Curie IEF grant, codename SQOD, 173 371€.
• European Union's IEF grant, codename SQUIRREL, 86 685€.