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Alessandro Alabastri
Assistant Professor at Rice University
Alessandro Alabastri is an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, a position he has held since 2020. He specializes in nanophotonics and computational modeling of photo-thermal interactions in complex nanostructures. His academic background includes a BSc (2007) and MSc (2009) in Engineering Physics from Politecnico di Milano, followed by a PhD in Nanosciences from the Italian Institute of Technology and the University of Genoa in 2014, where he focused on computational modeling of plasmonic structures.13
Before his current role, Alabastri was a Texas Instruments Research Assistant Professor at Rice University from 2018 to 2020 and held postdoctoral positions at Rice University and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research interests encompass the design and simulation of optical systems, multiphysics modeling, and the thermal and electromagnetic interactions in nanostructures. He has worked on various projects, including the Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) project and collaborations with the European Space Agency on energy conversion systems.123
Alabastri's expertise includes using advanced computational methods such as Finite Element Method (FEM) and Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) for modeling optical and thermal effects in nanostructures, contributing significantly to the field of nanotechnology and its applications in energy and water treatment.234
