Arianna Formenti was born in 1991 in Vimercate, Italy. She received her Master’s degree in Mathematical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on numerical investigations of intense laser interaction with nanostructured plasmas. She carried out her PhD studies in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology at Politecnico di Milano in the framework of the ENSURE project. She successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Advances in laser-driven ion acceleration theory” on July 6th, 2020. She is mainly interested in Particle-In-Cell simulations of laser-plasma interaction and modeling of laser-based ion acceleration.

Main role within ENSURE project: numerical support for the experimental activities of the group, investigation of laser-plasma interaction, modeling of low-density nanostructured plasmas.