Fabrice Laussy, new tenured researcher at ICMM

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Fabrice Laussy is a French researcher who has been working in the United Kingdom for a while. Now, he is starting a new position at the Material Science Institute as a tenured researcher. He is working alongside Gloria Platero at the Novel Platforms and Nano-devices for Quantum Simulation and Computation Group. Here he is presenting himself: 

"I am a theoretical physicist, working mainly on strange (and raising stars) particles known as polaritons, that are a quantum mélange of light and matter. For fellow physicists, you could say I work at the interface between quantum optics, semiconductor physics and condensed matter. 

I have been the Chair of Light-Matter Interactions and director of studies for Physics at the University of Wolverhampton, in Wulfruna's city, United Kingdom, since January (2017). Before that, I was a RyC researcher (since June 2012) in the condensed matter theory division of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid where I led the group of Quantum Polaritonics. I was the theory principal investigator for the ERC PolaFlow funded by the European Union and based in Lecce in collaboration with Daniele Sanvitto. I was the Scientist in Charge of the project SQUIRREL. I have had post-doctoral experience in UK (Sheffield and Southampton), Spain & Germany (as a Marie Curie fellow).

I am also, or was at some point, a black belt in judo, a theatre actor (playing God as a favorite role), a video animator, a cook, an encyclopedist (not only for the wikipedia) and, overall, a collector of collections".