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Science Popularization

Optics & Photonics Focus

In 2008, while Giovanni Volpe was at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, together with Armand Niederberger and Giorgio Volpe, he initiated Optics & Photonics Focus, an independent magazine, which reviews important recent developments in the fields of optics and photonics, and of which he has been Editor ever since. The project is run by an international group of scientists and is now sponsored by the Optical Society of America and the European Physical Society.

Giovanni Volpe has also contributed popular-scientific articles to Contemporary Physics, Europhysics News, OSA Focal Point, and Global Talent News.

Magazine Articles

  • Optics and Turkey's Scientific Revival
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. News '', (2013)
  • Close Up on DNA
    Agnese Callegari
    Opt. Photon. Focus 19, 2 (2013)
  • Photonic Brains
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 18, 1 (2012)
  • The Artistic Touch of Light
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 17, 5 (2012)
  • A Seriously Defocused Spider
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 17, 3 (2012)
  • Charge Goes Up, Charge Comes Down
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 16, 10 (2012)
  • Optical Processes in Microparticles and Nanostructures, A Festschrift, dedicated to Richard Kounai Chang on his Retirement from Yale University (Book Review)
    Giovanni Volpe
    Contemporary Physics 53, 274-275 (2012)
  • Restless Cells in the Human Eye
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 16, 5 (2012)
  • Sailing through the Waves of Light
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 16, 3 (2012)
  • The Number of Life
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 15, 8 (2011)
  • Light's Pull and Push
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 15, 5 (2011)
  • Soft, Oily and Self-healing
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 15, 2 (2011)
  • Bionic Lasers
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 14, 5 (2011)
  • Astronomical Twisters
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 13, 6 (2011)
  • The Inverted Bowl: Introductory Accounts of the Universe and its Life (Book Review)
    Giovanni Volpe
    Contemporary Physics 52, 501 (2011)
  • Optical Tweezers: Methods and Applications (Book Review)
    Giovanni Volpe
    Contemporary Physics 52, 379-380 (2011)
  • Darwin Meets Einstein. On the Meaning of Science (Book Review)
    Giovanni Volpe
    Contemporary Physics 52, 165-166 (2011)
  • Light Syringes
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 11, 3 (2010)
  • Abraham vs. Minkowski 1-1
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 10, 3 (2010)
  • Brownian Speedcam
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 10, 1 (2010)
  • EPS Young Minds Project: Promoting the next generation of leaders in physics
    AntigoneMarino, Giovanni Volpe,Armand Niederberger,Ophélia Fornari, David Lee & Maciej Kolwas
    Europhysics News 41, 4 (2010)
  • Happy Birthday Laser!
    Giorgio Volpe, Armand Niederberger and Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Soc. of Am. Focal Point Summer 2010, (2010)
  • What happened to the ozone hole?
    Giovanni Volpe
    Global Talent News '', (2010)
  • A new element for the periodic table
    Giovanni Volpe
    Global Talent News '', (2010)
  • Optical tweezers: The light that traps
    Giovanni Volpe
    Global Talent News '', (2010)
  • The Super-Powers of Shrimps
    Giovanni Volpe
    Global Talent News '', (2010)
  • Is Light Slowing Down?
    Giovanni Volpe
    Global Talent News '', (2010)
  • Sharing the Passion for Light
    Giorgio Volpe, Armand Niederberger and Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Soc. of Am. Focal Point Spring 2010, (2010)
  • Is Light Slowing Down?
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 8, 4 (2010)
  • The Game of Science
    Giovanni Volpe
    Global Talent News '', (2010)
  • Through the Digital Eye
    Giovanni Volpe
    Global Talent News '', (2010)
  • Two Colors is Better than One
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 7, 7 (2009)
  • Magnetic Break Up
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 7, 3 (2009)
  • A Brighter Future for LED Displays
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 6, 8 (2009)
  • LEGO-Optics
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 6, 5 (2009)
  • The Ice Age of Microfluidics
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 5, 3 (2009)
  • Thermal Images at the Nanoscale
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 5, 1 (2009)
  • Pouring Oil on Troubled Light-Momentum
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 4, 4 (2009)
  • Light's Ring-around-the-rosey
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 3, 6 (2008)
  • A Nano-Firefly in the Trap
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 3, 1 (2008)
  • The Runaway Polymer
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 2, 1 (2008)
  • Super-Vision for Mr. Shrimp
    Giovanni Volpe
    Opt. Photon. Focus 1, 3 (2008)