Katia Gallo

I am Professor and former Swedish Research Council Special Research Fellow (Rådsforskare) for the discipline “Semiconductor physics, electronics, electrical engineering and photonics” at the Department of Physics at KTH, where I head the Nonlinear and Quantum Photonics Group. At national level, I am directing the Quantum Communication program in the Swedish Quantum Flagship (WACQT) and the National Quantum Communication Infrastructure (NQCIS) in EuroQCI, which has its main hub at KTH-Albanova.

Research Interests

Nonlinear and Integrated Optics, Ferroelectrics, Quantum Optics amd Integrated Photonics, All-Optical Signal Processing, Biophotonics.

Short CV

My Alma Mater is the University ‘La Sapienza’ in Rome (Italy), where I graduated with a MSc in Electronic Engineering in 1997. I got a PhD in Electronic Engineering in Italy with joint work in Professor's Marty Fejer's group at Stanford University (1998) and a PhD in Physics from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France) in 2001. From 2001 to 2007, I was Senior Research Fellow at the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton UK as well as Business Fellow for the London Technology Network. As Leverhum Trust Special Research Fellow I was there leading activities on all-optical integrated signal processing devices for advanced telecom fiber systems.

The activities of my team at KTH (Nonlinear Quantum Photonics group at the Department of Physics) span theory, technology and experiments on photonic integrated chips, ferroelectric photonics on lithium niobate and hybrid platforms, nanophotonic and quantum devices and and systems, with a current focus on communication and sensing. We are engaged in comprehensive nanofabrication and technology work at KTH on the MyFab Albanova NanoLab facilities, underpinning a lot of our research, which encompasses both curiosity-driven fundamental physics as well as practical applications of nonlinear guided-wave interactions in quantum and classical regimes.

Publications

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Awards and Fellowships

Centre and South ItalyIEEE Student Award in Electronic Engineering

EU Marie Curie TMR Fellowship at CNRS-LPMC Nice, France

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Special Fellowship, UK

London Technology Network BusinessFellowship, UK

EU Marie Curie Intra-European FellowshipatKTH, Sweden

Swedish Research Council Senior Special Fellowship in Photonics, Sweden

KTH RektorPrize for contributions to Equality and Diversity at KTH