Longhi Stefano

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Stefano Longhi earned his Laurea in Electronic Engineering cum laude (1992) and a PhD in Physics (1995) at the Polytechnic Universities of Milan and Turin. After a period of specialization at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the Politecnico di Milano in 1998 as an Assistant Professor of General Physics. From 2003 to 2015 he was Associate Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the same institution, and since 2016 he has been a full Professor of Experimental Physics. Since 2018, he has also been an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Complex Systems Physics, University of the Balearic Islands (Palma de Mallorca, Spain).

His research, primarily theoretical or in collaboration with various international experimental groups, focuses on Condensed Matter Physics, with particular emphasis on classical and quantum photonics, laser physics and quantum physics. He is author or co-author of more than 450 publications in international journals of high impact (including Nature and Science), with over 250 publications as sole author.

According to the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2024 ranking, a global list of the most-cited researchers across disciplines published by Elsevier BV and Stanford University (DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.3 and 10.17632/btchxktzyw.5), Stefano Longhi is among the most influential researchers worldwide in the fields of optics and general physics, ranking in the top ten globally. In the same Elsevier-Stanford ranking, he is the highest-ranked researcher affiliated with the Politecnico di Milano.

Research Metrics (updated January 2026)

1. Scopus: h-index 76; total citations 21,888
2. Google Scholar: h-index 90; total citations 30,252

Stefano Longhi is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP). From 2006 to 2015, he served on the editorial board of J. Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. He has also served on the editorial board of J. Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics and on numerous scientific committees of international conferences.

In 2003, he was awarded the Fresnel Prize of the European Physical Society for his contributions to optics and photonics. He also received the Edoardo Kramer Prize from the Lombard Institute – Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2015 for his significant contributions to optics, particularly quantum optics with important theoretical implications. In 2020, he won the prestigious Aspen Italia Prize for the invention of a microlaser with orbital angular momentum, and in 2023 he received the Outstanding Referee Award from the American Physical Society.

His teaching activities have mainly been in General and Experimental Physics and Quantum Electronics. He currently teaches the course Principles and Applications of the Laser for students in the Engineering Physics program. He has also taught PhD courses at the Politecnico di Milano and has been invited to teach at master’s and doctoral schools abroad (Photonics Master 2008 and 2011, University of Barcelona; Carl Zeiss Visiting Professor at the Photonics Abbe School, University of Jena, Germany, 2009; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, 2018).