Andrea Pazzaglia was born in 1991 in Milano, Italy. He received his Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on production and characterization of nanostructured films for laser driven ion acceleration in 2016. He carried out his PhD in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology at Politecnico di Milano in the framework of the project ENSURE and successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Investigation on near-critical double-layer targets for enhanced laser-driven ion acceleration” on July 6th, 2020. He is mainly interested in production, modeling and characterization of materials for ion acceleration purposes.

Main role within ENSURE project: support target development, production and characterization; modeling of low-density nanostructured plasmas.