Dario Poletti is an Associate Professor and Head of the Science, Mathematics and Technology department of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He is also director of the SUTD Honours and Research Programme and coordinator of the Majulab for the Quantum Thermodynamics, Energetics and Resources axis.

Dario first joined SUTD in 2012 as an Assistant Professor, starting his own group. He was previously a postdoc at CQT and with groups in France and Switzerland. He obtained his joint PhD in Physics from the National University of Singapore and the Australian National University in 2009, for which he received the Medal of the Materials Research Society of Singapore for the best PhD thesis in NUS Physics Department. Before that, he earned a Master of Engineering (Nuclear Engineering) from Politecnico di Milano and Master of Engineer (Applied Physics) from Ecole Centrale Paris.

In 2015, he was named in Asia Pacific MIT Technology Review’s Innovators under 35 list, and in 2017 received the IoP Outstanding Referee Award for New Journal of Physics. He has publications in journals including Nature, Nature Quantum Information, Physical Review Letters and Review of Modern Physics.