Prof. Dr. Fabio De Matteis graduated in Physics at the University of Rome-La Sapienza in 1987, and received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in 1993. He has been a Researcher at the University of Rome Tor Vergata since 1995. In July 2013, he joined the Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Rome-Tor Vergata. His scientific interests have focused on the following: the synthesis and optical characterization of dielectric materials for photonics studied using several spectroscopic techniques (absorption and luminescence, static and time-resolved by ultrafast techniques, Raman spectroscopy); synthesis and nonlinear optical characterization of materials functionalized by electrooptic molecular moieties for optoelectronics; polar ordering of nonlinear chromophores induced by corona and electrode poling; surface nanostructuring (mono- and bidimensional gratings) in insulating materials by photolithographic techniques; biopolymeric scaffolds via light polymerization for tissue engineering; and silicon photonic circuits for optical communications, sensors, and quantum optics.