Leonida Gizzi

Leonida Gizzi

Chief Scientific Officer

A laser enthusiast, Leonida is an experimental physicist specializing in high-power lasers, laser-plasma interactions for inertial fusion energy, and laser-plasma acceleration. He holds a Physics degree from the University of Pisa and a PhD from Imperial College London. After joining the CNR in Bologna, he moved to Pisa, where he serves as Research Director and Head of the National Institute of Optics (INO) local unit and directs the Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory (ILIL). Since 2003, he has been an associate researcher at the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). Author of over 300 publications, Leonida also advises several international conferences and institutions.