Research activities:
Experimental study of the interaction of matter with radiation, in the area of ultrashort and ultrafast laser pulses: strongly nonlinear optical effects as high-order laser harmonics generation and optical ionization; phenomena depending on the absolute phase of the radiation, asymmetry in the multiphoton ionization, researches in the generation of attosecond pulses.
Optics for the quantum communication, realization of a quantum channel between Earth and Space.
Applications of lasers to Medicine and material processing: adaptive optics for the interaction optimization, advanced optical systems for semiconductor lasers, laser surgery of lung, laser dentistry.
Author of more than a hundred twenty publications on journal, including Nature and Science, on encyclopaedia and congresses in the areas of laser-matter interaction and Atomic and Plasma Physics.
Invited speaker about his researchers in Europe and United States, as well as referee for international journals and international research projects.
Member of the Council of the National Laboratory for Ultrafast and Ultraintense Optical Science, located in Milano, Italy.
Owner of 7 industrial patents or patent applications.
Served as coordinator in several national and international research projects, including the area of high order harmonics generation, quantum communication and laser surgery.