Dr. Maria Josè Lo Faro

Maria Josè Lo Faro graduated in Physics of Condensed Matter cum laude at the University of Catania in 2013. She consolidated her experience in nanostructures for integrated silicon photonics during her Ph.D. at the University of Catania. She was a visiting researcher at the Kastler-Brossel Lab (ENS-Paris). For 5 months, she investigated the propagation of light in random media by wavefront shaping in the S. Gigan’s group. In 2017, she was a Postdoc in the Institute for Chemical and Physical Processes (IPCF- CNR) in Messina working in the field of optical nanostructured biosensor and 2018, she moved to the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystem (IMM-CNR) in Catania, where she investigated the use of Si nanostructures for lasing. Since November 2018, she is a research fellow (RTD B, tenured assistant professor) at the Physics Dept. at UNICT, where she is currently working on the synthesis and characterization of functional luminescent materials. Research interest: My main research interest is the synthesis of silicon nanostructures realized through low-cost processes compatible with the Si industrial technology, aimed to control their optical and structural properties through the fine-tuning of their growth parameters (Semiconductor Science and Technology 2017). Special attention is paid to light management in disordered fractal systems to control their light scattering and emission according to their structure (Light Sci. Appl. 2016, Nat. Photonics 2017).