Biography
Andrea Blanco-Redondo joined the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) in April 2023 as the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) Endowed Professor. She came to CREOL from her previous role of Head of Silicon Photonics Research at Nokia Bell Labs in New Jersey, USA. Prior to that, from 2015 to 2019, she was first a postdoctoral researcher and then the Professor Harry Messel Research Fellow at the School of Physics of the University of Sydney, Australia. From 2007 to 2015 she was photonics researcher and project manager with the Aerospace and Telecom departments of Tecnalia, Spain. She received her PhD in 2014 from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) and her MSc in 2007 from the University of Valladolid (Spain), both in Electrical Engineering.
Her research interests span from nonlinear optics to quantum optics and topological photonics, generally on nanophotonics platforms. Amongst her most significant research achievements are the experimental discovery of a new type of solitary wave, the pure-quartic soliton, and the demonstration of topological protection of quantum photonic states.
She has served as Optica (former OSA) Director at Large from 2020 to 2022 and received the 2018 Optica Ambassador distinction. She was the recipient of the 2016 Geoff Opat Early Career Researcher Prize of the Australian Optical Society and a 2014 Ada Byron Award, a Spanish nationwide award to leading women in technology. She has served as Associate Editor for Optics Continuum, Guest Editor for several Special Issues in esteemed journals and Primary Editor of an upcoming book on Topological Photonics.
Awards & Honors
- 2024 Optica Fellow
- 2020 – 2022 Optica Director at Large
- 2018 Robinson Fellowship of the University of Sydney
- 2018 Optica Ambassador
- 2016 Professor Harry Messel Research Fellowship
- 2016 Geoff Opat Early Career Researcher Prize
- 2014 Ada Byron Award
- 2013 Marie Curie Co-Fund Fellow
- 2009 Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Mediterranean Microwave Symposium
- 2008 Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Networks Conference
Research Group
Nonlinear integrated photonics, quantum optics, topological nanophotonics, ultrafast lasers.
Publications
E.L. Pereira, H. Li, A. Blanco-Redondo, J.L. Lado "Non-Hermitian topology and criticality in photonic arrays with engineered losses" Physical Review Research 6 (2), 023004 (2024)
Mehmet Berkay On, Farshid Ashtiani, David Sanchez-Jacome, Daniel Perez-Lopez, SJ Ben Yoo, Andrea Blanco-Redondo "Programmable integrated photonics for topological Hamiltonians" Nature Communications 15, 629 (2024)
Farshid Ashtiani, Mohamad Hossein Idjadi, Ting-Chen Hu, Stefano Grillanda, David Neilson, Mark Earnshaw, Mark Cappuzzo, Rose Kopf, Alaric Tate, and Andrea Blanco-Redondo "A surface-normal photodetector as nonlinear activation function in diffractive optical neural networks" APL Photonics 8 (12) (2023)
Jie Zhao, Xiaoting Li, Ting-Chen Hu, Ayed Al Sayem, Haochuan Li, Alaric Tate, Kwangwoong Kim, Rose Kopf, Pouria Sanjari, Mark Earnshaw, Nicolas K Fontaine, Cheng Wang, and Andrea Blanco-Redondo "Unveiling the origins of quasi-phase matching spectral imperfections in thin-film lithium niobate frequency doublers" APL Photonics 8, 126106 (2023) (2023)
A Blanco-Redondo, CM de Sterke, C Xu, S Wabnitz, SK Turitsyn "The bright prospects of optical solitons after 50 years" Nature Photonics 17 (11), 937-942 (2023)
C. Martijn De Sterke and A. Blanco-Redondo "Even-order dispersion solitons: A pedagogical note" Optics Communications 541, 129560 (2023)
Y.H. Zhang, N.K. Fontiane, M. Mazur, H.S. Chen, R. Roland, G.F. Li and A. Blanco-Redondo "Impulse Response Characterization of a Commercial Multimode Fiber Using Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors" Journal of Lightwave Technology, 40(15), pp. 5107-5117 (2022)