Paolo Minzioni

Paolo is an Assistant Professor in the Integrated Photonics Lab (previously “Quantum Electronics Lab”) since 2008. He was previously working as a consultant at Pirelli Labs, and as a Ph.D. student at University of Pavia in the period 2002-2005. He got his PhD degree in 2006 with a thesis on optical devices for next-generation optical networks. Starting since 2007 a large art of his research activity has been dedicated to the design and characterization of microfluidic systems using optical forces as a tool for manipulation, testing and sorting of samples. He took part in different EU project and managed the local unit of EU project NISTAS in the frame of FP7. During the years Paolo created strong collaborations with different Universities and centers in different part of the world, including Paderborn University, Stanford University, Hebei University of Technology, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Optical Research Center Southampton, Tufts University, Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. Paolo is a Senior Member of The Optical Society (OSA) and acts both as an international traveling lecturer for OSA and as an Associate Editor for Optics Express. Paolo is also an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Università degli Studi di Pavia (2002 — 2006)
• 110 / 110 cum laude Università di Pavia (1996 — 2002)
• Liceo Taramelli Pavia (1991 — 1996)

Companies

• Visiting Scholar Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (2021)
• Associate Professor Università degli Studi di Pavia (2020)
• Assistant Professor University of Pavia (2008 — 2020)
• Visiting Scholar Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (2019 — 2019)
• Visiting Professor Tufts University (2016 — 2016)
• Post-doc Researcher University of Pavia (2005 — 2008)
• Ph.D. Student University of Pavia (2002 — 2005)
• Consultant Pirelli Labs (2001 — 2002)