Maria Antonietta Vincenti
Maria Antonietta Vincenti
Maria Antonietta Vincenti is an Associate Professor for the Department of Information Engineering at University of Brescia - Italy.
She received her Laurea degree (summa cum laude) and PhD in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Bari, Italy in 2005 and 2009, respectively.
From 2007 to 2009 she worked as Research fellow at the US Army Charles M. Bowden Laboratory at Redstone Arsenal under several awards sponsored by the U.S. Army Forward Element Command Atlantic. From 2009 till 2012 and from 2016 to 2017 she worked as a Research Scientist for AEgis Technologies Inc. From 2012 to 2017 she was appointed as a Research Associate of the National Research Council at the U. S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center and from 2017 till 2020 she has been an Assistant Professor for the Department of Information Engineering at University of Brescia - Italy.
She is the recipient of the “Rita Levi-Montalcini” award for young researchers funded by the Italian Ministry for Education (MIUR) for the year 2016. Her research activity focuses on theoretical investigations and computational modeling of linear and nonlinear interactions in optical nanostructures, including epsilon-near-zero materials, plasmonic devices, optical sensors, low-permittivity media, 2D materials, and sub-wavelength structures for light harvesting.
She has authored or co-authored more than 300 peer reviewed papers and conference proceedings; three book chapters; and holds two US patents.
She is a Senior member of OPTICA (former Optical Society of America) and a member of IEEE, SPIE, Italian Society of Electromagnetism (SiEm). She serves as referee for several international journals and is an Associate Editor for the OPTICA journal Optics Express. She also serves as a reviewer for international research projects funded by the US Department of Defense, the Italian Ministry of Education and Research and the National Research Foundation of Singapore.
Prof Vincenti is also a co-founder of M.I.R.A. – Microwave Innovation for Resource Activation - a spin-off of the University of Brescia developing microwave-based technologies for the recovery of critical raw materials from spent batteries and other complex waste streams. Its mission is to transform end-of-life materials into new resources, supporting circular economy, sustainability and resilient European supply chains.