Giuseppe Della Valle (GDV) has been Full Professor with the Physics Department of the Politecnico di Milano since 2024, and since 2006 he has been Associate Researcher with the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies of the CNR (Milano Unit). Since 2005, he has been teaching Physics for the BSc program with the Industrial and Information Engineering School of the Politecnico di Milano, and since 2013 he has been teaching Metaphotonics (formerly Nanooptics) for the MSc program in Engineering Physics, and Plasmonics for the PhD program in Physics, at the Politecnico di Milano.

His scientific activity is in the field of Photonics, and has involved both theoretical and experimental works, from the basic study of the interaction processes between electromagnetic radiation and matter, to the demonstration of new devices with advanced optical functionalities for the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0).

In particular, the research of GDV has been focused on the following topics: (i) development of optical amplifiers and compact lasers for metropolitan and local optical networks (smart factories); (ii) study of periodic optical structures, complex and plasmonic media, for the development of chemical and biological nanosensors based on resonant effects (lab-on-chip); (iii) demonstration of waveguide integrated optical circuits for quantum simulations and quantum computing; (iv) study of quantum phenomena of interacting/correlated particles in mesoscopic systems; (v) study of nonlinear electromagnetic phenomena at the nanoscale for the spectroscopy of nanostructured materials; (vi) development of reconfigurable optical metasurfaces (smart materials).

These studies were conducted in the context of various scientific collaborations and national and international research contracts and projects, including the recent European project H2020-FET-Open METAFAST (https://www.metafast-h2020.eu), of which GDV is the scientific coordinator.

GDV has co-authored more than 250 publications in scientific journals, books, international and national conference proceedings (of which more than 200 are indexed in SCOPUS, and more than 150 are journal articles).

In 2018 he received the MIT-Italy Seed Funds Award from MIT in Boston (USA), and since 2021 he has been included in the "World's top 2% scientist" list drawn up by Stanford University (USA).