Primary activity: Head of the Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory (ILIL) – http://ilil.ino.it

Main experiences acquired: Experimental physics of ultra-high intensity laser-plasma interaction

Scientific manager for INO of Funded Projects:
European high power laser energy research facility
High energy and Peak Power Laser Amplification Studies
European Plasma Research Accelerator with eXcellence In Applications
Calorimetria e spettroscopia per lo studio delle instabilità laser-plasma per la fusione laser in regime di ignizione da onda d’uto
Extreme Light Infrastructure
Sviluppo di metodologie ottiche interferenziali per la diagnostica di
materiali dispersivi mediante l’utilizzo di laser.

Experiments/Theoretical Study in which he/she participates:
Intense laser-driven shock for physics of extreme conditions (FemtoShock)
Ultraintense Laser amplification and diagnostic techniques (ILIL-PW)
Laser-plasma acceleration of electrons and secondary (Compton) radiation sources
Intense laser interaction with structured targets and high field plasmonics
Interferometry for the characterization and diagnostics of targets and plasma in laser-plasma experiments
Diode-pumped lasers for ultrashort pulse amplifiers (Diomede)
Laser-plasma interaction in a regime relevant for laser-fusion via shock-ignition
Experimental laser-driven proton acceleration and related beam diagnostics at ILIL
Dosimetry and radiobiology with laser-driven relativistic electron beams
Laser micro/nano fabrication

Others Funded Projects in which he/she participates:
High average power light source in the green
Study of radiobiological and radiotherapic effects of a novelo electron accelerators
Preparation and Realization of European Shock Ignition Experiments
Study of Direct Drive and Shock Ignition for IFE: theory, simulations, experiments, diagnostics development

Publications, Research Results, now, in INO’s database are: 326
  –   Papers JCR/ISI Journals, are: 192
  –   Books or Chapters, are: 32
  –   Papers in Journals not indexed JCR/ISI, are: 4
  –   Conference proceedings, are: 11
  –   Project results, are: 0
  –   Abstract – Poster – Presentation at conference, are: 11

Bibliometric indices are calculated USING ONLY THE INO DATABASE and the number of citations from “WEB OF SCIENCE” (of Thomson Reuters) is updated at 2021-02-28
  –   maximum number of citations for an article: 339
  –   maximum impact factor (IF) for a journal when an article is published: 11.329
  –   H-INDEX: 33   G-INDEX: 58   HC-INDEX (contemporary): 16 
  –   List of TopTen papers in citations  –   List of TopTen journals in Impact Factor