Claudio Masciovecchio
Senior Scientist
Claudio Masciovecchio is an experimental physicist with a track record that includes more than 200 articles in peer reviewed journals and over 100 invited talks and plenary lectures at international congresses. His expertise ranges from the study of liquids to samples in extreme thermodynamic conditions and from nanomaterials to biophysics. Claudio Masciovecchio has a well-established experience in the development, construction and exploitation of complex instrumentation for research in physics, chemistry and biology as demonstrated by the international awards received (Kai Siegbahn Prize (Uppsala, Sweden, 2012); Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation (Berlin, Germany, 2015); Outstanding Scientist Award (Bari, Italy, 2016)).
He is/has been principal investigator of a number of projects as, for instance, an ERC grant devoted to develop ultrafast nonlinear optics with chemical selectivity. He is currently the general Director of the FERMI free electron laser, a user facility that attracts scientist worldwide to carry out research at the cutting edge in the fields of chemistry, physics and biology.