Giorgio Volpe

7.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Giorgio Volpe is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Giorgio Volpe has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 19 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 16 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Giorgio Volpe's work include Micro and Nano Robotics (16 papers), Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (16 papers) and Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (15 papers). Giorgio Volpe is often cited by papers focused on Micro and Nano Robotics (16 papers), Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (16 papers) and Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (15 papers). Giorgio Volpe collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and France. Giorgio Volpe's co-authors include Giovanni Volpe, Clemens Bechinger, Hartmut Löwen, Roberto Di Leonardo, C. Reichhardt, Romain Quidant, Mark P. Kreuzer, Alberto G. Curto, T. H. Taminiau and N.F. van Hulst and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Giorgio Volpe

47 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Active Particles in Complex and Crowded Environments

2016 2.0k citations Clemens Bechinger, Hartmut Löwen et al. profile →
Unidirectional Emission of a Quantum Dot Coupled to a Nanoantenna

2010 1.1k citations Alberto G. Curto, Giorgio Volpe et al. profile →

Peers

Giorgio Volpe

BE

CMP

AMPO

EOMM

SNP

Zvonimir Dogic United States

Roberto Di Leonardo Italy

William T. M. Irvine United States

Paul E. Lammert United States

C. Reichhardt United States

Jochen Arlt United Kingdom

Andrew G. Mark Germany

P. Vavassori Italy

Randall D. Kamien United States

Peter Palffy‐Muhoray United States

Zvonimir Dogic United States

Giorgio Volpe

1.5k ×0.5

BE

2.8k ×1.1

CMP

724 ×0.5

AMPO

1.3k ×1.2

EOMM

660 ×0.6

SNP

Citations per year, relative to Giorgio Volpe Giorgio Volpe (= 1×) peers Zvonimir Dogic

Countries citing papers authored by Giorgio Volpe

Since Specialization

Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Giorgio Volpe

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Giorgio Volpe. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Giorgio Volpe. The network helps show where Giorgio Volpe may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giorgio Volpe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Giorgio Volpe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Giorgio Volpe based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Giorgio Volpe. Giorgio Volpe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Forth, Joe, et al.. (2026). Towards animate droplets: Active, adaptive, and autonomous. Europhysics Letters (EPL). 153(5). 57002–57002.

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Klages, Rainer, et al.. (2025). Anomalous Dynamics of Superparamagnetic Colloidal Microrobots with Tailored Statistics. Small. 21(47). e06538–e06538.

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Blunt, Matthew O., et al.. (2025). Capillary-assisted printing of droplets at a solid-like liquid-liquid interface. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 695. 137665–137665. 1 indexed citations

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Ni, Ran, et al.. (2025). U-Net 3+ for anomalous diffusion analysis enhanced with mixture estimates (U-AnD-ME) in particle-tracking data. Journal of Physics Photonics. 7(4). 45005–45005. 1 indexed citations

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Pei, Qing‐Xiang, et al.. (2024). Efficient rare event sampling with unsupervised normalizing flows. Nature Machine Intelligence. 6(11). 1370–1381. 2 indexed citations

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Jacucci, Gianni, José M. Palomo, Philip H. Jones, et al.. (2024). Patchy energy landscapes promote stability of small groups of active particles. Communications Physics. 7(1). 3 indexed citations

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Araújo, N. A. M., Benjamin J. Walker, Duncan R. Hewitt, et al.. (2024). Optimal face-to-face coupling for fast self-folding kirigami. Soft Matter. 20(5). 1114–1119. 1 indexed citations

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Volpe, Giovanni, et al.. (2023). Environmental memory boosts group formation of clueless individuals. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7324–7324. 7 indexed citations

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Volpe, Giorgio, Clemens Bechinger, Frank Cichos, et al.. (2022). Active matter in space. npj Microgravity. 8(1). 54–54. 12 indexed citations

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Faro, Maria José Lo, Giovanna Ruello, Antonio Alessio Leonardi, et al.. (2021). Visualization of Directional Beaming of Weakly Localized Raman from a Random Network of Silicon Nanowires. UCL Discovery (University College London). 13 indexed citations

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Jaensson, Nick O., et al.. (2020). Microscale Marangoni Surfers. Physical Review Letters. 125(9). 98001–98001. 55 indexed citations

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García, Laura Pérez, et al.. (2018). High-performance reconstruction of microscopic force fields from Brownian trajectories. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5166–5166. 41 indexed citations

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Joseph, Adrian, Claudia Contini, Denis Cecchin, et al.. (2017). Chemotactic synthetic vesicles: Design and applications in blood-brain barrier crossing. Science Advances. 3(8). e1700362–e1700362. 265 indexed citations

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Mounaix, Mickaël, Hugo Defienne, Giorgio Volpe, et al.. (2016). Spatiotemporal Coherent Control of Light through a Multiple Scattering Medium with the Multispectral Transmission Matrix. Physical Review Letters. 116(25). 253901–253901. 111 indexed citations

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Pesce, Giuseppe, Giorgio Volpe, Giovanni Volpe, & Antonio Sasso. (2014). Long-term influence of fluid inertia on the diffusion of a Brownian particle. Physical Review E. 90(4). 42309–42309. 12 indexed citations

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Volpe, Giorgio & Giovanni Volpe. (2014). Numerical simulation of optically trapped particles. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9289. 92890I–92890I. 4 indexed citations

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Curto, Alberto G., T. H. Taminiau, Giorgio Volpe, et al.. (2013). Multipolar radiation of quantum emitters with nanowire optical antennas. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1750–1750. 132 indexed citations

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Volpe, Giorgio, Giovanni Volpe, & Romain Quidant. (2011). Fractal plasmonics: subdiffraction focusing and broadband spectral response by a Sierpinski nanocarpet. Optics Express. 19(4). 3612–3612. 68 indexed citations

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Volpe, Giorgio, Gabriel Molina‐Terriza, & Romain Quidant. (2010). Deterministic Subwavelength Control of Light Confinement in Nanostructures. Physical Review Letters. 105(21). 216802–216802. 38 indexed citations

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Volpe, Giorgio, Giovanni Volpe, & Dmitri Petrov. (2007). Brownian motion in a nonhomogeneous force field and photonic force microscope. Physical Review E. 76(6). 61118–61118. 54 indexed citations

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