Dr Emilio Pisanty is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Proleptic Lecturer in the Photonics & Nanotechnology group of the Physics Department, King’s College London.

Emilio received his PhD in 2016, under the supervision of Professor Misha Ivanov. His PhD work focused on the ionization of atoms and molecules by strong laser fields, and its description using analytical quantum-trajectory methods. Prior to that he received his BSc from UNAM, in Mexico, working with Dr Eduardo Nahmad Achar on quantum optics.

Emilio has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Quantum Optics Theory group led by Professor Maciej Lewenstein at ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, and at the Strong Field Theory group at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy in Berlin.

Qualifications 

• PhD in Controlled Quantum Dynamics, Imperial College London (2016)

•  MRes in Controlled Quantum Dynamics, Imperial College London (2012)

•  BSc in Physics (Licenciatura en Física), UNAM – National Autonomous University of Mexico (2011)

Research interests 

• Attosecond science

•  Light-matter interaction with intense laser pulses

•  Structured light

•  Topological optics

•  Catastrophe theory

•  Quantum optics

Emilio works closely with Dr Amelle Zaïr and Dr Margarita Khokhlova on attosecond science and strong-field physics, focusing on analytical aspects of the theoretical description of the interaction of strong laser pulses with matter, and how they can be used to produce ultrashort bursts of radiation.

Personal websites

• Emilio Pisanty website
• Attosecond Quantum Physics at King's
• King's PURE profile
• Physics stack exchange