IIT People Search

Phone
Research center
Interests
About

Antonio Balena graduated in Physics summa cum laude in 2017 and received his Ph.D. in Structures, Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering from Università del Salento in May 2021. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies (IIT@CBN) from June 2021 to November 2021.

He then worked as PostDoc in Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris Sorbonne University from December 2021 to October 2022 and as Researcher in IIT@CBN, in the Multifuncional Neural Interfaces with Deep Brain Regions, starting from October 2022. His research interests include micro and nanofabrication, quantum photonics, and neurophotonics.

Top Publications
2022
Collard L., Pisano F., Zheng D., Balena A., Kashif M.F., Pisanello M., D'Orazio A., de la Prida L.M., Ciraci C., Grande M., De Vittorio M., Pisanello F.
Holographic Manipulation of Nanostructured Fiber Optics Enables Spatially-Resolved, Reconfigurable Optical Control of Plasmonic Local Field Enhancement and SERS
Small, vol. 18, (no. 23)
2022
Pisano F., Kashif M.F., Balena A., Pisanello M., De Angelis F., de la Prida L.M., Valiente M., D'Orazio A., De Vittorio M., Grande M., Pisanello F.
Plasmonics on a Neural Implant: Engineering Light–Matter Interactions on the Nonplanar Surface of Tapered Optical Fibers
Advanced Optical Materials, vol. 10, (no. 2)
2022
Spagnolo B., Balena A., Peixoto R.T., Pisanello M., Sileo L., Bianco M., Rizzo A., Pisano F., Qualtieri A., Lofrumento D.D., De Nuccio F., Assad J.A., Sabatini B.L., De Vittorio M., Pisanello F.
Tapered fibertrodes for optoelectrical neural interfacing in small brain volumes with reduced artefacts
Nature Materials, vol. 21, (no. 7), pp. 826-835
2020
Balena A., Bianco M., Pisano F., Pisanello M., Sileo L., Sabatini B.L., De Vittorio M., Pisanello F.
Two-photon fluorescence-assisted laser ablation of non-planar metal surfaces: Fabrication of optical apertures on tapered fibers for optical neural interfaces
Optics Express, vol. 28, (no. 15), pp. 21368-21381
2019
Pisano F., Pisanello M., Lee S.J., Lee J., Maglie E., Balena A., Sileo L., Spagnolo B., Bianco M., Hyun M., De Vittorio M., Bernardo B.L., Pisanello F.
Depth-resolved fiber photometry with a single tapered optical fiber implant
Nature Methods
Article Journal
All Publications
2023
Bianco M., Balena A., Pisanello M., Scarpa E., Pisano F., Pikalek T., Stiburek M., Uhlirova H., Cizmar T., Pisanello F., De Vittorio M.
Conformal microfabrication and back-end strategies on non-planar optical waveguides
8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGIES FOR OPTOGENETICS AND NEUROPHOTONICS - Optogen 2023
Poster Conference
2023
Balena A., Ding C., D'Amato M., Kashif M. F., Pisano F., Pisanello M., De Marzo G., De Vittorio M., Bramati A., Pisanello F.
Direct Fabrication of Plasmonic Nanoantennas onto Tapered Optical Nanofibers with Electron Beam Induced Deposition for Enhanced Single Photon Emission
META 2023, the 13th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics
Conference Paper Conference
2023
Bianco M., Pisanello M., Balena A., Montinaro C., Pisano F., Spagnolo B., Andriani M.S., Sabatini B.L., Pisanello F., De Vittorio M.
Fiber photometry with tapered optical fibers: exploiting mode-division to achieve depth-resolution in brain tissue
8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGIES FOR OPTOGENETICS AND NEUROPHOTONICS - Optogen 2023
Poster Conference
2023
Andriani M.S., Parras T. J., Bianco M., Cid E., Montinaro C., Balena A., Pisanello M., Pisano F., Pisanello F., De Vittorio M., De La Prida L. M.
Fibertrodes for wide-volume optoelectrical neural interfaces in behaving mice
8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGIES FOR OPTOGENETICS AND NEUROPHOTONICS
Poster Conference
2023
Collard L., Pisano F., Zheng D., Balena A., Piscopo L., Kashif M. K., Pisanello M., de la Prida L. M., Ciracì C., Grande M., De Vittorio M., Pisanello F.
Holographic control of plasmonic fiber optics
Optogen 2023
Poster Conference