Francesco Mirani was born in 1992 in Brescia, Italy. He received his Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on the investigation of possible applications of laser-driven ion acceleration in the field of Ion Beam Analysis (IBA). He carried out his PhD studies in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology at Politecnico di Milano within the framework of the ERC-ENSURE project. He successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Numerical and experimental investigation of laser-driven radiation sources for materials characterization” on July 14th, 2021. He is mainly interested in the Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE), Photon Activation Analysis (PAA) materials characterization methods, Direct Current and High-Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering deposition techniques and Geant4 Monte Carlo simulations.

Main role within ENSURE project: study the feasibility of laser-driven Ion Beam Analysis experiments.