Said Rahimzadeh-Kalaleh Rodriguez

Said Rahimzadeh-Kalaleh Rodriguez leads the Interacting Photons group at NWO-Institute AMOLF (Amsterdam), where he is tenured since 2022. The group investigates novel mechanisms through which nonlinearities, noise, memory, and dissipation, can synergistically enhance the transport of energy and information in light.

Prior to starting his group, Said got a PhD in Physics at AMOLF and TU/Eindhoven. He worked on strong light-matter interactions in nanophotonic systems, graduated Cum Laude (top 3-5%), received the 2015 FOM thesis prize, and the Christiaan Huygens prize honourable. Then, Said obtained a Marie Curie individual fellowship to investigate quantum and nonlinear optics of semiconductor cavities in France. There, he introduced methods for probing dissipative phase transitions of laser-driven systems.

In 2017, Said received a NWO Veni grant to investigate noise-assisted optical functionalities, and started his group at AMOLF. With his group, he has shown how noise, nonlinearity, and dissipation, can be a resource for optical information processing. In 2019, Said received an ERC Starting grant to investigate optoelectronic properties of polaritons, and in 2020 he received an Early Career Award from the Dutch Royal Academy.

At Brainspiration 2024, Said looks forward to learn about different approaches to brain-inspired computing, and to present his latest ideas on how stochastic nonlinear optical systems can contribute towards that goal.

Talk: Brain-like Dynamics of Light
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