# Ahmed Dorrah

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Assistant Professor

# Ahmed Dorrah

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##### Contact

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##### Department / Institute

[Applied Physics and Science Education](https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/departments/applied-physics-and-science-education)

##### Group

[Photonics and Semiconductor Nanophysics](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/photonics-and-semiconductor-nanophysics)

## RESEARCH PROFILE

Dr. Dorrah’s research interest covers the wide area of light-matter interaction, structured light, and flat optics. He is developing next generation meta-optics which can manipulate light at the nanoscale both in free space and on-chip for possible application in remote sensing, micromanipulation, biological imaging, and free space optical communications.

> The universe speaks in waves, and we learn how to listen—not by looking to distant stars, but by exploring the unknown worlds at just 100 nanometers.

## ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Dr. Dorrah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Science Education at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Before then he was a Research Associate in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University, working in the areas of Structured Light and Flat Optics. He obtained his MASc (2015) and PhD (2019) degrees, both from the University of Toronto, in Electrical and Computer Engineering. During his PhD, he joined Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBL) in California and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa as a visiting research scholar.

## Recent Publications

- [See all publications](https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/ahmed-dorrah//publications/)

- [### Compound meta-optics

  Nanophotonics

  (2025)

  Ahmed Dorrah](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/2fd86f49-f7bc-46fc-adae-88d4918024d3)
- [### Structuring light waves in 3D volumes with high precision using communication mode optics

  Optica

  (2025)

  Vinicius S. de Angelis,Ahmed Dorrah,Leonardo A. Ambrosio,David A.B. Miller,Federico Capasso](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/dfd9e8f5-566f-480e-a445-408633164857)
- [### Optimal structured light waves generation in 3D volumes using communication mode optics

  (2025)

  Vinicius S. de Angelis,Ahmed H. Dorrah,Leonardo A. Ambrosio,David A.B. Miller,Federico Capasso](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/1536787a-43d2-49f7-b2f9-635205dc330a)
- [### Rotatum of light

  Science Advances

  (2025)

  Ahmed Dorrah,Alfonso Palmieri,Lisa Li,Federico Capasso](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/ad01641b-ac81-4c33-8c77-f382963e2c99)
- [### Free-standing bilayer metasurfaces in the visible

  Nature Communications

  (2025)

  Ahmed Dorrah,Alfonso Palmieri,Joon-Suh Park,Federico Capasso](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/230d71f5-63c1-473d-9126-11b56371a3e2)

## Ancillary Activities

No ancillary activities