Matteo Passoni
Matteo Passoni was born in Lodi (Italy) in 1975. In 2000 he obtained a Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. In 2004 he obtained a PhD in Radiation Science and Technology with the thesis “Theoretical studies on the non-linear and relativistic interaction between ultra-intense ultra-short laser pulses and plasmas, with applications”. He is Associate Professor at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano, where he conducts his teaching and research activity. He is lecturer for the MSc courses “Plasma physics”, “Physics of the Nucleus” and for the PhD courses “Electromagnetic Radiation” and “Simmetry Applications in Classical and Quantum Physics”. His current scientific interests and experience include: ultra-intense laser-driven ion acceleration; relativistic electromagnetic solitary waves in plasmas; instabilities in laser-produced plasma; plasma-wall interaction in tokamaks; scanning tunnelling spectroscopy; group theory applied to solids; nanostructured thin films. He has been/is Principal Investigator of nationally (MIUR – Futuro in Ricerca program) and internationally (Euratom FP7 and H2020; ERC) funded projects and he is coauthor of about 90 scientific publications on international peer reviewed journals, volumes and conference proceedings.
He is the Principal Investigator of the ENSURE project.