Stefania Castelletto

Stefania Castelletto is an Associate Professor and researcher in the RMIT University  School of Engineering, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department.

Her research expertise and interest is in nano and quantum photonics, renewable energy and water purification systems engineering, quantum technologies, such as quantum communication, imaging, metrology and sensing. She authored over 200 publications in Scopus, including 5 book chapters and she is the co-editor of the Elsevier Book "Nanophotonics with Diamond and Silicon Carbide for Quantum Technologies"available in 2025.

She has over 25 years of extensive experience in research. She holds a PhD in Metrology from the Polytechnic of Turin University. She has been group leader at the Italian National Metrology Institute, visiting scientist at the National Institute of Technology and Standards in the USA and she has been part of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems. She has secured several research grants from both government and industry agencies, both nationally and internationally.

Internal Leadership and engagement.

She is currently Deputy Director of the RMIT University Leading Research Centre for Applied Quantum Technologies.

She is an Academic Lead for RMIT Strategic Research Platform Advanced Materials, Manufacturing and Fabrication EIP (Enabling Impact Platform).

She is part of the RMIT Research Integrity advisor network.

She is a Senior Officer for RMIT University Academic Integrity.
She was the Associate Dean and Deputy Associate Dean of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering in the School of Engineering in RMIT University (2021-2024).

External recognition

She is listed in the world ranking top 2%  scientists for the single years 2020 to 2023 and for career 2021-2023, according to Stanford University. 

2024 University of Siegen Cornelius International Award.

2011 visiting scientist at the Humboldt Berlin, awarded by the Australian Academy of Science.

2010 visiting scientist  at the Biophysical chemistry department of NanoBioPhotonics, Max Planck Institute, Ge.

2008-2009 visiting scientist at the University of Stuttgart within the EU EQUIND project.

2001-2003 Guest Scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg USA.

2000 Guest Scientist at the National Physics Laboratory, NPL (UK) 

Visiting professor 
She has been visiting professor in international institutions, such as University of Siegen Germany, University of Science and Technology China (Hefei), Khalifa University (UAE), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China),  A*STAR Data Storage Institute (Singapore).
Editorial, Reviewer and Assessor engagement
She is associate editor for Nanomaterials, Frontiers in Quantum Science and Technology and in Physics. She is guest editor for the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology.  She serves as reviewer for many high-impact journals, among them American Chemical Society ACS Nano, Nano letters, ACS Photonics, the Royal Chemical Society Nanoscale and Journal of Materials Chemistry, Springer Nature Materials, Nature Photonics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications and AAAS Science.

She is part of SPIE Scientific Committee, Member of the Australian Optical Society (AOS) and Member of the Australian Nanotechnology Network.

She is member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering.
She serves as an assessor for national and international agencies, including the Australian Research Council, Czech Science Foundation, DFG German Research Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation, Research Foundation – Flemish Government Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship, French National Research Agency, MIUR-Italian Ministry for Research, National Natural Science Foundation of China and Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, QuantERA, European Research Council, Office of Basic Energy Sciences in Materials Sciences and Engineering Argonne National Laboratories.
Industry Experience
2011–2013: Part of the ARC Centre of Excellence Engineered Quantum systems
2006–2010: Responsible for the "Engineered Quantum Information with nanostructures diamond" EQUIND project EU Commission 6th Framework and the Australian International Science Linkage project "Engineered quantum information in Diamond" (Department of Innovation, Industry and Science and Research)
2002–2006: Research Group Leader in Optical Metrology at INRIM
Industry and government agency collaborations 
Selex SI (Italy)
Element Six (UK)

Acciona Australia

Gamesa Siemens Australia

Lockheed Martin 

National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST, Japan)

Advanced materials Alminica (Sweden)

CSIRO (AU)

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Ge)
Institut national de métrologie (INM) -Cnam (F)
National Physics Laboratory (UK)
Italian Institute of Metrological Research (INRIM)
National Institute of Technology and Standards (USA)

Selected invited conference speaker

2024 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting, Dec 1 - 6, 2024

IOP-CPS symposium on ‘Quantum Information’ 12-13 October 2024 (http://meeting.cps-net.org.cn/hnu2024/multiinfo/155) 

5th International Conference on Emerging Advanced Nanomaterials (ICEAN 2024) 

Energy Oceania Melbourne November 27-29, 2023

Sino-German Workshop on Silicon Carbide, Hefei September 2023 (invited only workshop)

4th International Conference on Emerging Advanced Nanomaterials (ICEAN 2022) 17-21 October

Defects in Semiconductors Gordon Research Conference August 16-21, 2020 

International Conference on Defects in solids for quantum technologies Stockholm, Sweden, June 8-12, 2020 

SPIE 11201, SPIE Micro + Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications 2019
KeyNote speaker Nanoscale Quantum Optics Conference Prague, The Czech Republic, 13-16 February 2018

SiC quantum spintronics: towards quantum devices in a technological material, The Royal Society Kavli Royal Society Centre, Chicheley Hall, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire (3-7 Nov 2018) Invited only 

CECAM-Workshop in Bremen July 9-13 2018

First International Symposium on SiC Spintronics, Vadstena, Sweden, June 15-17, 2015 

International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ICSCRM2015) 4-9 October 2015

Co-Chair Single Photon Workshop, National Physical Laboratory, UK 24-26th October 2005

33rd Winter colloquium on the physics of quantum electronics, Utah, January 5-9 2004