Dr. Andrea Alù, is a Distinguished Professor, founding director of the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at CUNY. His research interests include applied electromagnetics, nano-optics and nanophotonics, microwave, THz, infrared, optical metamaterials and metasurfaces, plasmonics, nonlinearities and nonreciprocity, cloaking and scattering, optical nanocircuits and nanoantennas. He received the Laurea, MS and PhD degrees from the University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, respectively in 2001, 2003 and 2007. He has received numerous awards, including the 2021 Blavatnik National Award Laureate in Physics and Engineering.