He joined KAUST in January 2011 as Assistant Professor. Prior to joining KAUST, Andrea Fratalocchi was a Research Fellow of Sapienza University of Rome under a KAUST Fellowship Award. From 2007 to 2009, Andrea Fratalocchi worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Sapienza University, under a "New Talent" Award from the research center “Enrico Fermi.” In 2012 he was appointed as Editor of Nature Scientific Report. In 2017, he won the middle east GCC enterprise Award as best electrical engineer of the year. Andrea Fratalocchi is the group leader of PRIMALIGHT, which focuses on providing new sustainable and scalable Photonics technologies for renewable energy, nanomedicine and material science.