Silvia Romano

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT SILVIA ROMANO

In the last years, I have got valuable expertise in the field of Photonics and Nano-Optics focusing my research on modelling, fabrication, and characterization of photonic crystal devices for ultrasensitive, hyperspectral biosensing applications, developing label-free optical sensors for real-time detection of biomolecules and tumor biomarkers. I pioneered the experimental applications of bound states in the continuum (BICs)- an intriguing class of delocalized, strongly correlated photonic resonances in deep subwavelength open resonators - demonstrating the amplification of fundamental processes like Raman scattering and fluorescence emission from probe molecules with an all-dielectric metasurface. I developed novel and efficient optical sensors based on such photonic crystal metasurfaces supporting BIC, demonstrating excellent figure of merit in the visible range, high sensitivity of biodetection and extraordinary capability of ultralow-weight molecules detection. Finally, I developed a novel technique of hyperspectral-sensing imaging based on BIC for cancer cells imaging and discrimination at single-cell level. I\'m co-tutor of PhD students in the field of research of optical sensors and superviser of university students during their thesis. Mail: s••••••••@cnr.it Website: Website: & hl=it