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Emanuele Galiffi is an Assistant Professor at the Chandra Family Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his degree in Physics from Imperial College London in 2016 and completed his PhD in 2021, focusing on condensed matter theory under the supervision of Prof. Sir John Pendry. During his doctoral research, he was awarded the Johnson Matthew PhD Thesis Prize and the EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship. In 2021, he was honored with a prestigious Junior Fellowship from the Simons Society Fellows and joined the research group of Prof. Andrea Alù at the Advanced Science Research Center of the City University of New York. His research is centered on time-varying metamaterials and their applications in temporal reflection, as well as polaritonic phenomena in low-symmetry materials metasurfaces. Dr. Galiffi's postdoctoral work has garnered him the 2025 SPIE Young Innovator Award. His current research interests include ultrafast wave phenomena, active time-varying materials, and applications such as wave amplification and frequency conversion in analog computation.
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