High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Alfano is Distinguished professor of Science and Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York, where he is the director of Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers. He works mainly in the field of Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy, Ultrafast lasers and optics, tunable lasers, semiconductor materials and devices, optical materials, biophysics, nonlinear optics and photonics. He has published over 700 papers in referred journals and has over 100 patents. Alfano is of Italian origin.