Olivier Martin

Expertise Plasmonics, optical nanostructures, biosensing, modelling, nanofabrication, Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence, near-field optics, metamaterials. Mission Further our understanding of light-matter interactions over a broad spectrum range in order to develop useful devices. Current Work Metasurfaces in the linear and nonlinear regimes, AI-based electromagnetics, computational electromagnetics, optical forces including low-frequency dielectrophoresis. Olivier J.F. Martin received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics in 1989 and 1994, respectively, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. In 1989, he joined IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, where he investigated thermal and optical properties of semiconductor laser diodes. Between 1994 and 1997 he was a research staff member at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). In 1997 he received a Lecturer fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). During the period 1996-1999, he spent a year and a half in the U.S.A., as invited scientist at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). In 2001 he received a Professorship grant from the SNSF and became Professor of Nano-Optics at the ETHZ. In 2003, he was appointed Professor of Nanophotonics and Optical Signal Processing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), where he is currently head of the Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory. Between 2005 and 2017 he was Director of the EPFL Doctoral Program in Photonics (approx. 100 PhD students) and between 2016 and 2020 he was Director of the EPFL Microengineering Section (1'000 students). In that latter capacity he has conducted an in-depth reform of the study plan and introduced the new EPFL Master in Robotics.Publications Link to my list of publications on my lab website. Link to my profile and publications on Google Scholar. External link to Researcher ID with citation metrics: (please click here)Research Dr. Martin conducts a comprehensive research in plasmonics (the optics of metallic nanostructures) that combines the development of numerical techniques for the solution of Maxwell's equations with advanced nanofabrication and experiments in the linear an nonlinear regimes. Applications of his research include optical antennas, metasurfaces, nonlinear optics, optical nano-manipulations, heterogeneous catalysis, security features and optical forces at the nanoscale. Dr. Martin has authored over 300 journal articles and holds a handful of patents and invention disclosures. He received in 2016 an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council on the utilization of plasmonic forces to fabricate nanostructures; he is a Fellow of Optica (Optical Society of America) and Associate Editor of Advanced Photonics and of Frontiers in Physics. ResearchCurrent Research Fields Metasurfaces in the linear and nonlinear regimes, AI-based electromagnetics, computational electromagnetics, optical forces including low-frequency dielectrophoresis. Teaching & PhD PhD Students Mahmoud Abouelatta, Ebru Buhara, Stavros Athanasiou, Parmenion Mavrikakis, Ilia Lykov Past EPFL PhD Students Sergei Sidorenko, Holger Fischer, Lina Huang, Andreas Kern, Benjamin Gallinet, Arash Farhang, Krishnan Thyagarajan, Andrea Lovera, Banafsheh Abasahl, Thomas Gerd Siegfried, Shourya Dutta Gupta, Volodymyr Koman, Fabian Michael Lütolf, Raziman Thottungal Valapu, Chen Yan, Xiaolong Wang, Kuang-Yu Yang, Gabriel David Bernasconi, Giorgio Quaranta, Debdatta Ray, Sebastian Mader, Mintae Chung, Hsiang-Chu Wang, Marco Riccardi, Jeonghyeon Kim, Andrei Kiselev Courses Advanced micro-/nano- manufacturing MICRO-632 This course contains lectures covering the latest research and development done in the field of micro-/nano- manufacturing methods and processes. It consists on an intensive 5 days training and is done in the framework of a collaboration between FEMTO-ST in France and EPFL. Electrical engineering science & technology EE-100 This course is an introduction to electrical engineering, with emphasis on circuits and their components. It includes a theoretical module with exercises and practical experiments in the laboratory. Optical engineering (for EL) MICRO-321(b) This class presents different facets of modern optics and emphasizes both rigorous foundations and practical applications. Optical engineering (for MT) MICRO-321(a) This class presents different facets of modern optics and emphasizes both rigorous foundations and practical applications. The course includes lectures and exercises, as well as experiments in the DLLs. Selected topics in advanced optics MICRO-420 This course proposes a selection of different facets of modern optics and photonics. Past PhD students Nicolas B. Piller, Jörg Kottmann, Michael Paulus, Sergei Sidorenko, Holger Fischer, Lina Huang, Daniele Brunazzo (thesis co-direction with Torino University), Andreas M. Kern, Benjamin Gallinet, Arash Farhang, Andrea Lovera, Banafsheh Abasahl, Thomas G. Siegfried, Krishnan Thyagarajan, Shourya Dutta Gupta, Volodymyr Koman, Fabian M. Lütolf, Raziman Thottungal Valapu, Xiaolong Wang, Chen Yan, Kuang-Yu Yang, Gabriel D. Bernasconi, Debdatta Ray, Sebastian Mader, Hsiang-Chu Wang, Mintae Chung, Marco Riccardi Awards SNSF Professorship Swiss National Science Foundation 2001