Prof Andrea Di Falco
Director of Impact
Professor
Teaching
Prof Di Falco teaches the course of Nanophotonics at Master level. Locally he gives tutoring support, and organises and marks the experimental activity and the exams. He also supports the teaching program of the Photonics Laboratory.
Research areas
Andrea Di Falco is professor in nano-photonics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, at the University of St Andrews. In 2010 he was awarded a fellowship from EPSRC, to develop the concept of flexible metamaterials and plasmonics at visible wavelengths. In 2019 he was awarded a ERC Consolidator grant to develop biophotonic applications of optically trapped photonic membranes. His interests cover different areas of photonics, from metamaterials to photonic crystals and applications of nonlinear optics and biophotonics.
Group website: http://synthopt.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
PhD supervision
- Farhan Ali
- Innes Bakkali
- Aravind Binukumar
- Femy Francis
- Shiju Prasad
- Sarah-Jane Twigg
- Zaka Ullah
Selected publications
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Open access
The 2026 active metamaterials roadmap
Pope, S. A., Roth, D. J., Bansal, A., Mousa, M., Rezanejad, A., Forte, A. E., Nash, G. R., Singleton, L., Langfeldt, F., Cheer, J., Henthorn, S., Hooper, I. R., Hendry, E., Powell, A. W., Souslov, A., Plum, E., Sun, K., de Groot, C. H., Muskens, O. L. & Shields, J. & 10 others, , 10 Apr 2026, In: Journal of Physics D : Applied Physics. 59, 14, 52 p., 143001.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Impact of permittivity grading on coupled resonance in hybrid-ENZ metasurfaces
Das, A., Wynne, L. C., Di Falco, A. & Schulz, S. A., 30 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Physics: Photonics. 7, 2, 7 p., 025031.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Low-temperature fabrication of plasmonic titanium nitride thin films by electron beam evaporation
Das, A., Nanao, Y., Rajan, A., Di Falco, A. & Schulz, S. A., 30 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Physics: Photonics. 7, 2, 7 p., 025032.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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OLED illuminated metasurfaces for holographic image projection
Gong, J., Biabanifard, M., Yoshida, K., Turnbull, G. A., Di Falco, A. & Samuel, I. D. W., 27 Aug 2025, In: Light: Science & Applications. 14, 9 p., 294.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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See-through conformable holographic metasurface patches for augmented reality
Gan, Y., Xiao, J., Plaskocinski, T. T., Persheyev, S., Biabanifard, M. & Di Falco, A., 19 Feb 2025, In: Laser & Photonics Reviews. 19, 4, 7 p., 2401240.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Side-polished fiber evanescent wave quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy employing dielectric coatings for evanescent field enhancement
Twomey, C. F., Biagi, G., Ruth, A. A., Ali, F., Di Falco, A., O'Faolain, L. & Walsh, A. J., 1 Dec 2025, In: Photoacoustics. 46, 100782.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Engineering waveguide nonlinear effective length via low index thin films
Jaffray, W., Ali, F., Stengel, S., Guo, Z., Schulz, S. A., Di Falco, A. & Ferrera, M., 27 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Optical Materials. Early View, 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Flexible holographic metasurfaces for shape dependent imaging and curvature sensing
Xiao, J., Plaskocinski, T., Hunter, R. I., Biabanifard, M., Robertson, D. A., Smith, G. M., Horsley, S., Schulz, S. A. & Di Falco, A., 1 Aug 2024, Metamaterials XIV. MacDonald, K. F., Staude, I. & Zayats, A. V. (eds.). Bellingham, WA: SPIE, Vol. 12990. 7 p. 1299005. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 12990).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Open access
Generative model for multiple-purpose inverse design and forward prediction of disordered waveguides in linear and nonlinear regimes
Guo, Z., Guo, Z., Arandelovic, O. & di Falco, A., 18 Jun 2024, Machine Learning in Photonics. Ferranti, F., Hedayati, M. K. & Fratalocchi, A. (eds.). Bellingham, WA: SPIE, 5 p. 1301702. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 13017).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Machine-learning-assisted dual harmonic generation FROG for enhanced ultrafast pulse recovery
Jaffray, W., Guo, Z., Di Falco, A. & Ferrera, M., Dec 2024, In: Machine Learning: Science and Technology. 5, 4, 045074.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review