Alessandro Alabastri is an accomplished assistant professor with a background in nanotechnology and engineering physics. Alessandro's expertise lies in design and simulations of optical systems, multiphysics modeling, and the full coupling of optical, thermal and mechanical effects. He has developed proficiency with COMSOL, Lumerical, RSoft, Mathematica, MATLAB, Python, and is an expert in modeling dielectric, semiconductor and metallic nano systems. Additionally, Alessandro is experienced in heat transfer in fluids, evaporation, and nanoparticles induced steam generation. Alessandro has worked on various projects, including the Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment project at Rice University, where he worked on the exploitation of nanostructures properties in water purification. He also collaborated on Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission for electric power generation with the European Space Agency and Institute de Microelectronica de Madrid. Alessandro has a Ph.D. in Nanotechnology from the University of Genova and a Master's degree in Engineering Physics from Danmarks Tekniske Universitet. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Rice University, and he has also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Rice University and a Visiting Researcher at Berkeley Lab. He is passionate about applications focused on optical and magnetic response of nanostructures, heating effects in nanosized systems, and photon-enhanced thermionic emission.