Membership Type:
Member
Center:
CILG
Awarded in: 2021
Email: matteo.lucchini@polimi.it
Profile
Matteo Lucchini was born in Angera, Italy, on January 29, 1984. He received a Master’s degree in Physical Engineering cum laude from the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in December 2008. He obtained a Ph.D. in Physics cum laude from the same institution in March 2012, working on a new gating technique for the generation of high-energy isolated attosecond pulses.
From January 2012 to January 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Ultrafast Laser Physics group at ETH Zürich, where he was awarded an ETH Fellowship (co-funded by Marie Curie). Since February 2017, he has been working at the Physics Department of the Politecnico di Milano, where he was appointed Associate Professor in 2022.
Throughout his academic career, he has worked on several cutting-edge topics in Attosecond Science, with a particular focus on the study of ultrafast electron dynamics in condensed matter. In 2019, he was awarded the “Alfredo di Braccio” prize for physicists by the Accademia dei Lincei and the “Fresnel Prize” for outstanding contributions to quantum electronics and optics by the European Physical Society. In the same year, he received an ERC Starting Grant for the investigation of ultrafast dynamics in advanced materials. In 2021, he was awarded the “Antonio Feltrinelli Giovani per la Fisica” prize.
He currently leads the attosecond beamlines at the Politecnico di Milano, where he conducts experiments based on attosecond and femtosecond harmonic radiation.