Prof. Antonio Mecozzi Antonio Mecozzi is a Professor with the Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences of the University of L’Aquila, Italy. Previously, he worked for 15 years in the Optical Communication Division of Fondazione Ugo Bordoni in Rome. He holds numerous patents and has published more than 200 papers in refereed scientific journals. He is a Fellow of OSA (class 1999) and of the IEEE (class 2003).