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Last 21th of October, a group of ICFOnians shared an ICONS Coffee session with Dr. Andrea Alù, Associate Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at The University of Texas at Austin.
Prof. Alù is an Italian IEEE Fellow who has been recently elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for his “seminal contributions to electromagnetic theory and applications, nano optics, plasmonics, and metamaterials” and awarded with the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics and the 2014 Outstanding Young Engineer award from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society just to name his most recent prices.
As it is usual during the ICONS coffee sessions, Prof. Alù shared his personal and professional trajectory with us and used his own experience as guidance, offering plenty of insights on the academic career path. Prof. Alù offered us his unique perspectives on scientific careers and practices, as well as the challenges faced in the selection of scientific talent, that cannot rely only on publication records. He pointed out that most of the times the selection committees are cross-disciplines and without the specific background to judge first hand the scientific accomplishments of the candidates. In these scenarios, as Prof. Alù mentioned, the recognition of the candidate’s own community price of viagra matters the most.
Written by: Jordi Gomis.
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