About
Principal Research Fellow and Reader in Photonics at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton. Over 25 years’ experience in both low dimensional semiconductor physics and photonics technology. Founder and head of Photonic, Electronic and Plasmonic Microstructured Optical Fibres group at the ORC. EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship in molecular nanoelectronics at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge before joining ORC Southampton in 2001. Dr Sazio has over 100 journal (3 in Science/Nature journals) and conference publications, holds 3 patents with numerous invited talks at international photonics and materials conferences as well as serving as Topic chair for Optical Materials at OSA CLEO/EQEC Europe. He has generated as PI and Co-I EPSRC grants >£7.6M.
Research
Research groups
Current research
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils UK EP/S036369/1: “Composite material hollow core fibres for active photonics” (12/19 – 11/22) PI £978457.
US Airforce Research Labs RP010327-1 (Penn State subcontract) “Zinc selenide fiber infrared sources and isolators” (09/13 - 09/19), PI $602747.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils UK EP/N013883/1: “Photonic fibre technologies for solar fuels catalysis” (02/16 – 01/18) PI £608675.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils UK EP/J004863/1: “Tapered semiconductor fibres for nonlinear photonics applications” (05/12 – 10/15) Co-I £506363.
NSF Materials World Network USA and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils UK EP/I035307/1: “Semiconductor photonic materials inside microstructured optical fibers” (01/12 – 06/15) PI £565615.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils UK EP/H007369/1: “Topological engineering translation grant” (04/10 – 03/14) Co-I £674195.
NSF Materials World Network USA and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils UK EP/G028273/1: “Creating optoelectronic materials and devices inside microstructured optical fibers” (01/09 – 12/11) PI £559973.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils UK EP/C006763/1: “Topological engineering: A technology for the rational design and organisation of functional 3D templated nanomaterials” (10/05 – 03/10) Co-I £2544134.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils UK EP/C010566/1: “Microstructured optical fibre metadevices” (08/05 – 03/09) PI £398452.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils UK EP/S27771/1: “Advanced microstructured photonic devices: Materials engineering using supercritical fluid technology” (12/03 – 09/07) PI £155568.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils UK GR/A00766/02: “The physics and technology of novel self-assembled molecular nanoelectronic devices” Advanced Research Fellow (09/00 - 09/05) £216265.