Professor Marco Peccianti is the Director of the Emergent Photonics Research Centre. He is a recognised leader in the field of nonlinear optics, ultrafast photonics and terahertz radiation, and makes foundational contributions to nonlinear physics.

He earned his PhD from the University of Roma Tre in 2004, subsequently securing a Fellowship at the Enrico Fermi Centre in Italy and a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Canadian INRS. In 2013, he joined the University of Sussex as a Lecturer and was promoted to Professor in 2017. He moved to Loughborough in 2022 where he founded the Emergent Photonics Research Centre. 

Throughout his career, Marco has received numerous prestigious accolades, including two Marie Curie Fellowships, election to the Global Young Academy, two ERC grants and an Optica Fellowship.

He regularly serves as Chair and Committee Member on various scientific boards worldwide, including the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Italian Ministry for Universities. He has published more than 450 publications across journals, proceedings and patents as well as 70 invited and keynote talks, with about 17,000 citations.