Mauro Nisoli
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Mauro Nisoli
Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Attosecond Science: The Art of Making Electron Movies
More than two decades after the first experimental demonstration of attosecond pulses, attosecond science has developed into a mature and rapidly expanding research field. Its applications now span atomic, molecular, and condensed-matter physics, enabling direct access to electron dynamics on their natural timescale. The combination of advanced experimental techniques with increasingly sophisticated theoretical methods has revealed ultrafast processes that were previously inaccessible. This lecture will introduce the fundamental concepts of attosecond pulse generation and measurement, illustrate selected applications to atoms, molecules, and solids, and discuss the experimental and theoretical challenges involved in resolving, interpreting, and ultimately controlling electron dynamics on attosecond timescales.
About the Speaker
Mauro Nisoli is Full Professor of Physics at Politecnico di Milano, where he currently heads the Department of Physics. He leads the Attosecond Research Center at Politecnico and co-directs the international school Frontiers of Attosecond and Ultrafast X-ray Science. His research has made major contributions to the generation of attosecond pulses through high-order harmonic generation in gases, and to their use in probing ultrafast electronic dynamics in atoms, molecules, and condensed matter. By combining advanced ultrafast laser sources with attosecond metrology, his work has helped expand the experimental capabilities of attosecond spectroscopy and its application to complex physical and chemical systems.
He has authored more than 230 peer-reviewed articles in international journals and is regularly invited to deliver lectures, tutorials, and keynote presentations at major international conferences and advanced schools. His research has attracted highly competitive European funding, including an ERC Advanced Grant in 2009 for the ELYCHE project and an ERC Synergy Grant in 2020 for TOMATTO. In 2019, he was elected Fellow of Optica in recognition of his pioneering contributions to attosecond science and technology, with particular emphasis on innovative applications of attosecond pulses to molecular systems.
