Francesca Filograno received the Bachelor Degree and the Master Degree cum laude in Medical Systems Engineering (Bioengineering) from the Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy, in 2021 and 2023, respectively.
Since November 2023, she is a PhD student of the nano Photonics and Electronics Group (nPEG) with the thesis entitled “Metasurfaces and photonic devices for medical applications” in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI) at the Polytechnic University of Bari.
Her main research interests include metasurfaces, reconfigurable metasurfaces, photonic and plasmonic devices and sensors for medical applications.

• Francesca Filograno, Olivier Gauthier-Lafaye, Adrian Laborde, Jean Baptiste Doucet, Vincent Raimbault, Nathalie Bardou, Béatrice Dagens, Giovanna Calò, Giovanni Magno, "A Scalable Large-Area Fabrication Strategy for Transparent Polymeric Encapsulated Metagratings", Nanophotonics, vol. 15, no. 14, 2026.
• F. Filograno, G. Piscopo, P. Matarrese, M. Crouzier, B. Dagens, G. Calò, G. Magno, "Harnessing hotspots at the nanoscale: Tapered plasmonic nanochains for localized heating and optical manipulation", 2026 26th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks Icton 2026, 2026.
• Dalibor Javůrek, Aniqa Mehboob, Renáta Praksová, Francesca Filograno, Vincenzo Petruzzelli, Giovanni Magno, Béatrice Dagens, Kamil Postava, Lukǎs Halagačka, Giovanna Calò, "Mode asymmetrization in Plasmonic Slot Waveguides Exploiting the Magneto-Optical Effect", 2026 26th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks Icton 2026, 2026.
• F. Filograno, G. Piscopo, P. Matarrese, M. Crouzier, B. Dagens, G. Calò, G. Magno, "Thermoplasmonic Tapered Nanochains for Localized Heating and Optical Manipulation", XXVI Riunione Nazionale di Elettromagnetismo (RiNEm 2026), 2026.
• Giovanni Piscopo, Francesca Filograno, Marius Crouzier, Artem S. Vorobev, Liam O'faolain, Olivier Gauthier-Lafaye, Beatrice Dagens, Giovanna Calo, Giovanni Magno, "Metasurfaces for Sensing and Display Applications", International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, 2025.
• Francesca Filograno, Ilaria Marasco, Beatrice Dagens, Olivier Gauthier-Lafaye, Vincenzo Petruzzelli, Giovanna Calo, Giovanni Magno, "Guided Mode Resonant Metagrating for Augmented Reality Lenses and Biosensing", 2024 7th IEEE International Humanitarian Technologies Conference Ihtc 2024, 2024.
• F. Filograno, I. Marasco, B. Dagens, O. Gauthier-Lafaye, V. Petruzzelli, G. Calò, G. Magno, "Transparent polymeric metagrating for two-color reflection in augmented reality displays", 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference IPC 2024 Proceedings, 2024.
• Francesca Filograno, Ilaria Marasco, Beatrice Dagens, Olivier Gauthier-Lafaye, Vincenzo Petruzzelli, Giovanna Calo, Giovanni Magno, "Transparent Polymer-Based Metasurfaces for Augmented Reality Display", 2024 Italian Conference on Optics and Photonics Icop 2024, 2024.
• Francesca Filograno, Ilaria Marasco, Béatrice Dagens, Olivier Gauthier-Lafaye, Vincenzo Petruzzelli, Giovanna Calò, Giovanni Magno, "Selective Color Reflection through Guided Mode Resonance Transparent Metasurfaces", International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, 2024.
• Valeria Marrocco, Rossella Surace, Giovanna Calo, Elisabetta Brandonisio, Ilaria Marasco, Francesca Filograno, Irene Fassi, "Chemical Foaming of Carbon Fiber-Polylactic Acid (CF-PLA) Porous Structures and Their Feasibility as EMI Shields in the X-Band", IEEE Access, vol. 12, 2024.