Biography

Federico Capasso received the doctor of Physics degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Rome, Italy, in 1973 and after doing research in fiber optics at Fondazione Bordoni in Rome, joined Bell Labs in 1976. In 1984, he was made a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and in 1997 a Bell Labs Fellow. In addition to his research activity Capasso has held several management positions at Bell Labs including Head of the Quantum Phenomena and Device Research Department and the Semiconductor Physics Research Department (1987– 2000) and Vice President of Physical Research (2000–2002). He joined Harvard on January 1, 2003.

AWARDS: Duddell Medal and Prize (2002), Edison Medal (2004), SPIE Gold Medal (2013) Balzan Prize (2016), Matteucci Medal (2019) Citations (Google Scholar): Over 100 000 H-index (Google Scholar): Over 150 Publications: Over 500 peer-reviewed journals Patents: Over 70 US patents Key achievements: Bandstructure Engineering.and Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs) Metasurfaces and Flat optics Casimir forces. 2021 Frederic Ives Medal and Jarus W. Quinn Prize, Optical Society of America 2020 Honorary Award, IEEE Italy Section 2019 Matteucci Medal, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, detta dei XL 2019 Guglelmo Marconi Science Award, UNICO 2018 Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society

2017 Kenneth Button Prize, International Society of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves and Institute of Physics (UK) 2016 Balzan Prize for Applied Photonics, Balzan Foundation 2015 Rumford Prize, American Academy of Arts and Science 2013 Gold Medal of SPIE | 2013 European Physical Society Quantum Electronics and Optics Award 2013 Humboldt Research Award 2011 Jan Czochralski Award of the European Materials Research Society 2011 Galileo Galilei Medal of the Italian Society for Optics and Photonics 2010 Julius Springer Prize in Applied Physics 2010 Berthold Leibinger Zukunft Prize (Future prize) 2005 King Faisal International Prize for Science 2005 Gold Medal of the President of Italy for meritorious achievement in science 2004 Edison Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 2004 Arhur Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, American Physical Society 2004 Tommasoni & Chisesi Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Physics 2003 Goff Smith Prize and Lecture, University of Michigan 2002 Duddell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (London, UK) 2001 Robert Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America 2000 Willis E. Lamb Medal for Laser Physics and Quantum Optics 2000 NASA Group Achievement Award 1998 IEEE/Laser & Electrooptics Society W. Streifer Award for Scientific Achievement 1998 Rank Prize in Optoelectronics (UK) 1998 Capitolium Prize of the Mayor of Rome, Italy 1997 Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute 1997 Bell Laboratories Fellow Award 1995 Materials Research Society Medal 1995 Moet Hennessy•Louis Vuitton “Leonardo da Vinci” Award of Excellence (France) 1995 Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Assosciation for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for best paper published in Science 1995 Electronics Letters Prize of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (London, UK) 1994 Heinrich Welker Memorial Medal (Germany) and International CompoundSemiconductors Symposium Award 1993 The New York Academy of Sciences Award 1991 IEEE David Sarnoff Award in Electronics 1984 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff

Memberships/Fellowships 2019 Fellow, National Academy of Inventors 2015 Member, Academia Europaea 2012 Foreign Member, Accademia dei Lincei 1995 Member, National Academy of Sciences 1996 Member, National Academy of Engineering 1998 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1999 Fellow, The Institute of Physics (UK) 1997 Honorary Member, of the Franklin Institute 1992 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1991 Fellow, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) 1989 Fellow, Optical Society of America 1987 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers 1986 Fellow, American Physical Society Honorary Doctorates and Other Honors 2019 Honorary issue of Nanophotonics (Volume 7, Issue 6, Jun 2018) for Federico Capasso on “Metamaterials & Metasurfaces” 2011 Honorary Doctorate University Paris Diderot, France 2011 Honorary Doctorate of Technology, Lund University, Sweden 2011 Honorary Doctorate in Materials Science, University of Roma III, Italy 2003 Honorary Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy 2004 Commendatore of the Italian Republic For information on Awards and Achievements follow:https://capasso.seas.harvard. edu/federico-capasso