# People ## expand\_more ## Emails: @g: @g.harvard.edu @seas: @seas.harvard.edu @fas: @fas.harvard.edu [### Federico Capasso ](/people/federico-capasso) [capasso@seas](mailto:capasso@seas)Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering ![FedericoCapasso](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/federico.jpg?itok=d4MKjJmq) [### Stacia Zatsiorsky ](/people/stacia-zatsiorsky) [szatsiorsky@seas](mailto:szatsiorsky@seas)Research Portfolio Manager ![Stacia Zatsiorsky](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/stacia.jpg?itok=JWtG2oEA) [### Anna Frej ](/people/anna-frej) [afrej@seas](mailto:afrej@seas)Faculty Coordinator person [### Paul Chevalier ](/people/paul-chevalier) Research Scientist ![Paul Chevalier headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/ACP_4067.JPG?itok=Yc-K8_7v) [### Arman Amirzhan ](/people/arman-amirzhan) [amirzhan@seas ]()Graduate Student ![Arman](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/arman.jpg?itok=z1ULofBk) [### Jean-Michel Borit ](/people/jean-michel-borit) Graduate Student My hometown is Lima, Peru. I'm a first-year Quantum Science and Engineering PhD student. I completed a BS in Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Since my freshman year, I worked in the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab under Prof... ![Jean-Michel picture](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/picture.png?itok=XeRrqtuv) [### Davide Cassara ](/people/davide-cassara) [dcassara@g](mailto:dcassara@g)Graduate Student ![Davide](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/davide.png?itok=a5BA_Ayk) [### Pernille Undrum Fathi ](/people/pernille-undrum-fathi) [pernillefathi@g](mailto:pernillefathi@g)Graduate Student MSci Physics, King’s College London (2022) ![Pernille](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-04/445529C8-0403-4CC1-974F-63FC79D500E3.PNG?itok=zicCG36Y) [### Dean S. Hazineh ](/people/dean-hazineh) [dhazineh@g](mailto:dhazineh@g)Graduate Student ![DeanHazineh](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/received_374824271073633_2.jpeg?itok=5NJkO_nN) [### Janice Jizhe ](/people/janice-jizhe) [yanghengjizhe@g](mailto:yanghengjizhe@g)Graduate Student B.S Physics and B.A Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University ![Profile picture, Janice](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/da496fcb1a218028ba11ebdb9fa35313.jpg?itok=BHyvbSrO) [### Alfonso Palmieri ](/people/alfonso-palmieri) Graduate Student ![Alfonso Palmieri in the lab](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-05/alfonso-linkedin-3.jpg?h=e44af31d&itok=lsJh7lK0) [### Pawan Ratra ](/people/pawan-ratra) [pawanratra@seas](mailto:pawanratra@seas)Graduate Student Meng Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London (2024) ![Pawan](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-02/grad2024-5_Original.jpg?itok=eAOg58et) [### Zhongpeng Sun ](/people/zhongpeng-sun) [zhongpengsun@fas](mailto:zhongpengsun@fas)Graduate Student ![zhongpeng](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/headshot_zhongpengsun.jpeg?itok=lbDGHBPn) [### Yifan Wang ](/people/yifan-wang) Graduate Student B.S. in Engineering Physics from CU Boulder (2022), co-advised by Prof. Lene Hau. ![Yifan](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-04/profile.png?itok=JJhS_B64) [### Kerolos M. A. Yousef ](/people/kerolos-m-yousef) [kyousef@seas](mailto:kyousef@seas)Graduate Student ![Kerolos](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/zrulbygszuyyichbzvrvm7kq0rnmze0koozjmilmvei6.png?itok=ZO3arysW) [### Maryna Meretska ](/people/maryna-meretska) [mmeretska@seas ]()Research Associate ![Maryna](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/meretska_maryna_web.png?itok=q5_sesAD) [### Isabel Barth ](/people/isabel-barth) [isabel\_barth@hms.harvard.edu](mailto:isabel_barth@hms.harvard.edu)Postdoctoral Fellow ![Headshot of Isabel Barth](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-04/DSC_5740~3.JPG?itok=Ahu_bi53) [### Dmitry Kazakov ](/people/dmitry-kazakov) [kazakov@g](mailto:kazakov@g)Research Associate ![Headshot of Dr. Dmitry Kazakov](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/dima_headshot.jpeg?itok=YssUcePM) [### Theodore Letsou ](/people/theodore-letsou) Postdoctoral Fellow Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2025) S.M. Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2021) B.S.E Engineering Physics, Case Western Reserve University (2019) ![Profile picture of Theodore](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/skjermbilde_2024-07-08_kl._17.38.40.png?itok=cEDFdbeh) [### Jinsheng Lu ](/people/jinsheng-lu) [jlu@seas](mailto:jlu@seas)Postdoctoral Fellow ![Jinsheng](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/jinsheng_lu.jpg?itok=wkQevxBb) [### Joshua Mornhinweg ](/people/joshua-mornhinweg) [jmornhinweg@seas](mailto:jmornhinweg@seas)Postdoctoral fellow Joshua Mornhinweg is a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow working on polaritonic and nonlinear metasurfaces and joined the Capasso group in March 2024. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Regensburg, Germany in the group of Prof. Rupert Huber... ![Joshua profile picture](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/joshua_mornhinweg.jpg?itok=PCj3XpTS) [### Joon-Suh Park ](/people/joon-suh-park) [parkj@g](mailto:parkj@g)Postdoctoral fellow M.S. in Physics, Yonsei University (2012) B.S. in Physics, Yonsei University (2010) Joon-Suh is currently focused on developing designs and fabrications of large-area, mass-manufacturable metasurfaces operating at visible wavelengths in Capasso group at... ![Joon-Suh](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/joon-suh.jpg?itok=NUUWneK_) [### Murat Yessenov ](/people/murat-yessenov) Postdoctoral fellow Murat Yessenov is a postdoctoral fellow in the Capasso Group at Harvard University, starting in February 2025. He is also a Research Associate affiliated with Prof. Abouraddy’s group at the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL), University of Central... ![Murat Yessenov headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-02/MuratYessenov.png?itok=KMlCP5Z0) [### Cristina Benea-Chelmus ](/people/cristina-benea-chelmus) [cristinabenea@g](mailto:cristinabenea@g)Tenure Track Assistant Professor, EPFL, Switzerland Associate in Applied Physics Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus is an Assistant Professor of Microengineering at the Institute of Electro and Microengineering at EPFL since January 2022. She is also a Research Associate affiliated with the group of Prof. Federico Capasso at Harvard... ![Cristina](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/cristina.jpg?itok=7Vz0xH5Q) [### Vincent Ginis ](/people/vincent-ginis) [ginis@seas](mailto:ginis@seas)Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Physics (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Associate in Applied Physics, Harvard University ![Vincent Ginis](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/vincentginis.jpg?itok=5K21wfGf) [### Marcus Ossiander ](/people/marcus-ossiander) [mossiander@g](mailto:mossiander@g)Assistant Professor, Graz University of Technology, Austria Associate in Applied Physics, Harvard University ![Marcus](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/marcus.jpg?itok=2jBfsc-z) [### Marco Piccardo ](/people/marco-piccardo) [piccardo@g](mailto:piccardo@g)Assistant Professor (Técnico Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal) Principal Investigator (INESC Microsystems and Nanotechnologies) Associate in Applied Physics, Harvard University ![Marco](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/marco.jpg?itok=FpIprnbQ) [### Soon Wei Daniel Lim ](/people/soon-wei-daniel-lim) Schmidt Science Fellow in Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford Medicine Associate in Applied Physics, Harvard University Schmidt Science Fellow in Chu Group, Stanford University. Ph.D. Applied Physics, Harvard University (2023). B.S. Physics, California Institute of Technology (2017) and National Science Scholar, A*STAR Singapore. ![Daniel](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/daniel_lim.jpg?itok=MSW39ufl) [### Irene Occhiodori ](/people/irene-occhiodori) [iocchiodori@seas](mailto:iocchiodori@seas)Fellow MSc student in Materials Science at ETH Zürich ![Irene profile picture](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/img-20221002-wa0064.jpg?itok=MBtmT-fV) [### Lorenzo Piatti ](/people/lorenzo-piatti) Fellow ![Lorenzo Piatti ](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-03/Photo_Piatti.jpg?itok=doDd7A0b) [### Luca Sacchi ](/people/luca-sacchi) [lsacchi@g](mailto:lsacchi@g)Fellow MSc student in Physics at ETH Zurich ![Profile photo of Luca Sacchi](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/luca_sacchi.jpeg?itok=hjRxT5oU) [### Oscar de Vries ](/people/oscar-de-vries) [oscar\_devries@seas.harvard.edu](mailto:oscar_devries@seas.harvard.edu)Fellow BSc Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology (2023) ![Oscar de Vries](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-02/formele%20foto.JPG?h=78a0241e&itok=kQYedqrk) [### Athena Xu ](/people/athena-xu) [athenaxu@seas](mailto:athenaxu@seas)Undergraduate Intern ![Athena_website_photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/pw_headshot_3_transparent_bg.png?itok=vjTKTC-l) [### Christina Spägele ](/people/christina) [spaegele@g ]()Affiliated Alumnus ![Christina](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/christina.jpg?itok=bHaF6-pu) [### Ping Sun ](/people/ping-sun) Graduate Student ![Ping Sun profile picture](/sites/g/files/omnuum6306/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/capasso/files/a138fbc3cedff0b47bccbe4e4897500.jpg?itok=_niGf-up)