About
Marian Florescu is a Professor with Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton.
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Research
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- Micro- and nano-photonics
- Open quantum systems
- Nano-electronics and spintronics
Current research
Micro- and Nano-Photonics
- Fundamentals and applications of non-crystallographic photonic structures
- Thermal radiation in nano-structured photonic materials; thermal management and thermophotovoltaic energy conversion
- Light guiding and confinement in hepruniform disordered structures, photonic integated micro-circuitry on silicon photonics platforms
- Quantum nonlinear optics and all-optical information processing in micro-structured photonic materials
- Physics of structural colors in biophotonic nanostructures
Open Quantum Systems
- Non-Markovian Quantum Dynamics
- Cavity-mediated entanglement of photonic and electronic excitations
- Quantum Non-Linear Effects
- Quantum memory and loss quenching in quantum information systems
Nano-electronics and Spintronics
- Temperature insensitive semiconductor materials: electronic structure and loss mechanisms in dilute bismide and nitride alloys
- Hyperuniform disordered 2D and 3D electronic systems: amorphous graphene and silicon models
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Biography
Marian Florescu graduated from the University of Bucharest with a BSc in Physics and then obtained his PhD in Theoretical Quantum Optics at the University of Toronto. He was a Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University, a National Research Council Research Associate at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a Professor with the Advanced Technology Institute and the Physics Department at the Univeristy of Surrey. Since 2024, he leads the Theoretical Nanophotonics and Quantum Optics group in the Optoelectronics Research Centre at Southampton.
His current activities are focused on the physics and applications of non-crystallographic photonic band gap materials, thermal radiation control in photonic materials and quantum optics in structured photonic reservoirs.
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