Primary activity: Theory and simulation of high-intensity laser pulses interaction with plasmas and solid targets; high field and ultrafast plasmonics, ion acceleration, instabilities and nonlinear waves, radiation friction effects, generation of quasistatic fields and coherent structures generation, fundamental processes, modeling and interpretation of experiments, proton probing techniques.
Outreach: several activities of science popularization and education, participation to scientific committees, communication activities.

Main experiences acquired: Delopment of analytical models of laser-plasma interaction, numerical implementation, simulations with particle-in-cell codes also on parallel supercomputers, design and management of experiments, outreach activities.

Scientific manager for INO of Funded Projects:
Assorbimento indotto da onde di superficie in laser-plasmi / Surface Wave Induced Laser Absorption in Plasmas
Superintense Laser-Driven Ion Sources
Laser-driven Shock Waves

Publications, Research Results, now, in INO’s database are: 116
  –   Papers JCR/ISI Journals, are: 99
  –   Books or Chapters, are: 8
  –   Papers in Journals not indexed JCR/ISI, are: 4
  –   Conference proceedings, are: 3
  –   Abstract, are: 21

Bibliometric indices are calculated USING ONLY THE INO DATABASE and the number of citations from “WEB OF SCIENCE” (of Thomson Reuters) is updated at 2024-12-01
  –   maximum number of citations for an article: 1146
  –   maximum impact factor (IF) for a journal when an article is published: 42.860
  –   H-INDEX: 36   G-INDEX: 73   HC-INDEX (contemporary): 18 
  –   List of TopTen papers in citations  –   List of TopTen journals in Impact Factor