Academic carrier:
- Since 2011 he is Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano
- 2001-2010: member of the Faculty of Politecnico di Milano as Associate Professor (Physics of Matter).
- 1991-2001: Researcher of the National Research Council (CNR) with the Center of Quantum Electronic and Electronic Instrumentation.
- 1990: degree in Electronic Engineering (cum laude) from Politecnico di Milano

Teaching activity:
- Since 2006: Photonics course; "Physics Engineering" students of Politecnico di Milano.
- Since 1995: General Physics; "Information Engineering" students of Politecnico di Milano.
- 1990-1995: Assistant professor General Physics I, General Physics II, Optoelectronics.

Research focus:
- Attosecond science: generation and application of attosecond pulses.
- Ultrashort-pulse laser technology.
- Production of coherent XUV radiation by high-order harmonic generation in gases.
- Control and real-time observation of electronic motion in atoms, molecules, biomolecules and nanostructures.
- Generation and control of few-optical-cycle light pulses (sub-5-fs duration) with stabilized carrier-envelope phase.
- Applications of femtosecond light pulses to the investigation of ultrafast processes in organic and inorganic semiconductors and nanostructures.
- Optical parametric processes for the generation of high-energy few-optical-cycle pulses.

He is co-author of more than 160 research papers in international journals. He has 1 patent (hollow-fiber compression technique). He is co-author of 6 didactic books of General Physics and 1 didactic book of Quantum Electronics.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
2020 : ERC-Synergy Grant 2020 (951224 – TOMATTO, The ultimate time scale in organic molecular opto-electronics, the attosecond).
2019: OSA Fellow 2019: “For innovative contributions to the field of attosecond science and technology, particularly for ground-breaking applications of attosecond pulses to molecules”
2008: ERC-Advanced Grant 2008 (227355 – ELYCHE, Electron-scale dynamics in chemistry).