Primary activity: Director of Institute

Main experiences acquired: nonlinear optics, laser physics, atomic and molecular high precision spectroscopy, frequency metrology, environmental monitoring with optical devices, optical sensors and diagnostics, physics of non-linear optical crystals, development of infrared coherent sources.

Scientific manager for INO of Funded Projects:
Progetto integrato per lo sviluppo della Capacit� Tecnologica e Operativa della Toscana per l’Utilizzo esteso dello Spazio e pi� dell’aria.
Nuovi cristalli non-lineari strutturati per l’estensione spettrale dei pettini di frequenza e per la generazione di stati quantistici ad alta efficienza
FotovoltaiCo OrgAnico/IBrido dI Terza GeneRazione
Ultrashort Pulse Generation from Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers

Research Groups:
Buffer gas cooling of molecules
Mid ir and thz spectroscopy and applications

Others Funded Projects in which he/she participates:
Sistemi innovativi di misura per la protezione dell’ambiente e della salute
Monitoraggio innovativo per le coste e l’ambiente marino
Aerotrazione con BioCarburanti
Advanced, Disruptive and Emerging QUAntum technologies for DEfence

Publications, Research Results, now, in INO’s database are: 365
  –   Papers JCR/ISI Journals, are: 293
  –   Books or Chapters, are: 30
  –   Papers in Journals not indexed JCR/ISI, are: 3
  –   Conference proceedings, are: 119
  –   Abstract, are: 159

Bibliometric indices are calculated USING ONLY THE INO DATABASE and the number of citations from “WEB OF SCIENCE” (of Thomson Reuters) is updated at 2025-04-06
  –   maximum number of citations for an article: 400
  –   maximum impact factor (IF) for a journal when an article is published: 31.377
  –   H-INDEX: 45   G-INDEX: 69   HC-INDEX (contemporary): 24 
  –   List of TopTen papers in citations  –   List of TopTen journals in Impact Factor