Affiliation: The National Metrology Institute of Italy
Keywords: Responsive polymers, integrated photonics, liquid crystal polymers, two-photon direct laser writing, nonlinear photonic materials, autonomous response, optical cryptographic functions
Full profile: Sara Nocentini is a first-researcher at the National Institute of Metrological Research (INRiM) in Turin, within the Division of Metrology of Innovative Materials and Life Sciences. She received her International PhD in Atomic and Molecular Photonics from the European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) in Florence in 2017. Following a postdoctoral position at LENS, she then joined CNR-INO as a postdoctoral researcher and later on continued her research as a fix termed researcher at INRiM.
She was awarded with the Woman in Science Fellowship at Humboldt University in Berlin in 2022. She is the author of over 25 articles in international journals and a reviewer for several high-impact journals in material science and photonics.
Her research has received national and international support and recognition through various scholarships. She is the coordinator of a metrology project and the national PRIN 2022 project ‘Photag’. In 2024, she was awarded funding for the ERC Starting Grant project ‘3DnanoGiant’.
She is a physicist with a passion for material science and its application to advance the field of integrated photonics. Her research interests and activities include smart polymers for photonics, microrobotics, and cryptography in both linear and nonlinear regimes.