Giuseppe Emanuele Lio is a PhD student at the Physics Department and CNR-Nanotec at the University of Calabria in Italy. He received his MSc in Physics in 2017 with a dissertation on designing a nano-guided hybrid system to implement a photonic transistor. His research interests include quantum plasmonics, metamaterials for biosensing, and active plasmonics. He has participated in conferences presenting his work on designing a nano-guided hybrid system and has one peer-reviewed publication. His advisors include Professors Roberto Caputo, Renaud Bachelot, and Sylvain Blaize.