Professor Alessia Pasquazi’s expertise lies in the domain of nonlinear photonics and microcombs. 

She studied at the University of Roma Tre and was awarded her PhD in 2009. She was a MELS fellow in Quebec, Canada (2010-11); an EU Marie-Curie Fellow (2013-15); an Ernest Rutherford Fellow (2018-22) and was recognised as an ERC Starting Grant Laureate (2020-24). 

Working at the at the forefront of her field, she led pioneering research in ultrafast integrated optics at the University of Sussex’s EPic Lab for six years (2014-22). She is now a leading member of the Loughborough’s Emergent Photonics Research Centre.  

She actively contributes to the global academic community, serving as a member and chair of panels for numerous conferences organised by SPIE, OPTICA and IEEE. She served a two-year term as the programme and general chair for OSA Nonlinear Photonics (2018-20) and currently holds the same role with CLEO-EU EQEC (2025).