Andrea Alù (born September 27, 1978) is an Italian American scientist and engineer, currently Einstein Professor of Physics at The City University of New York Graduate Center.
[1] He is known for his contributions to the fields of optics, photonics, plasmonics, and acoustics, most notably in the context of metamaterials and metasurfaces.
[3] Andrea Alù received his laurea (2001), MS (2003), and PhD (2007) in electronic engineering from Roma Tre University.
[7] Alù is known for his breakthroughs in metamaterials, including his work on invisibility cloaking, or making objects transparent to incoming electromagnetic or acoustic waves.
Alù to date has authored over 650 journal articles, 950 conference papers, and 35 book chapters, which have received over 53,000 citations.