Paolo Comaron

postdoc

My interests involve studying the physics of quantum fluids of light and atoms. I use numerical simulations to investigate their behavior. Specifically, my academic experience is centered on the numerical modeling of exciton-polaritons in microcavities and ultracold Bose gases of atoms. My current research focuses on the type of phase transitions these systems can exhibit, universal phenomena, quantum turbulence, vortex dynamics, topological features, and engineering artificial intelligence in photonic devices.

Biographical Info

• Researcher at CNR Nanotec, Lecce, Italy (2024- present)
• Visiting Researcher at UCL, London, UK (2024- present)
• Research Fellow in Quantum Technologies at LCN and UCL, London, UK (2023-2024)
• Research Fellow at Prof. Szymanska’s Group at UCL, London, UK (2021-2023)
• Adjunct Professor (Research Associate) at Prof. Matuszewski Group at ifPAN, Poland (2019-2021)
• Research Associate at Prof. Proukakis Group at Newcastle University, UK (2018-2019)
• PhD at Newcastle University, UK (2014-2018)

Paolo has published 5 articles with us. The most recent ones are:

1. Directional Optical Parametric Amplification in a Hyperbolic Metamaterial, Antonio Gianfrate, Dimitrios Trypogeorgos, Paolo Comaron, Dawid Paszko, Marzena Szymańska, Milena Giorgi, Dario Ballarini, Daniele Sanvitto, (arXiv:2502.12866) (2025)

2. Multicomponent Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Universality in Degenerate Coupled Condensates, Harvey Weinberger, Paolo Comaron, Marzena Szymańska, (2024)

3. Quantum impurities in finite-temperature Bose gases: Detecting vortex proliferation across the BKT and BEC transitions, Paolo Comaron, Nathan Goldman, Atac Imamoglu, Ivan Amelio, (2024)

4. Onset of vortex clustering and inverse energy cascade in dissipative quantum fluids, R. Panico, P. Comaron, M. Matuszewski, A.S. Lanotte, D. Trypogeorgos, G. Gigli, M. Giorgi, V. Ardizzone, D. Sanvitto, D. Ballarini, Nature Photonics 17(5) 451 -- 456 (2023)

5. Neuromorphic Binarized Polariton Networks, Rafał Mirek, Andrzej Opala, Paolo Comaron, Magdalena Furman, Mateusz Król, Krzysztof Tyszka, Bartłomiej Seredyński, Dario Ballarini, Daniele Sanvitto, Timothy Liew, Wojciech Pacuski, Jan Suffczyński, Jacek Szczytko, Michał Matuszewski, Barbara Piȩtka, Nano Letters 21(9) 3715 -- 3720 (2021)