Matteo Tamburini

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Pisa, Italy. Thesis title: “Radiation Reaction Effects in Superintense Laser-Plasma Interaction”. Supervision by Prof. Dr. F. Pegoraro and Dr. A. Macchi.

Course on “Standard formats for scientific data (HDF5, XML, …)”, CINECA supercomputing facility, Bologna, Italy.

School on parallel computing. Topics: parallel architectures, models of parallel programming, parallel algorithms, programming environments, code optimization techniques, practice on CINECA High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. CINECA supercomputing facility, Bologna, Italy.

M.Sc. in Physics, University of Pisa, Italy (110/110 cum laude). Thesis title: “A Minimal Model for Dark Matter. New Multiplet of Elementary Particles with Electroweak Gauge Coupling”. Supervision by Prof. Dr. A. Strumia.

B.Sc. in Physics, University of Pisa, Italy (110/110). Thesis title: “Bose-Einstein Condensation of Alkaline Atoms in Different Geometries”. Supervision by Prof. Dr. E. Arimondo.

Lecturer, International Max Planck Research School in Quantum Dynamics (IMPRS-QD), Heidelberg, Germany.

Team leader. Team Quantumplasma, Theory Division of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK) led by Hon.-Prof. Dr. C. H. Keitel, Heidelberg, Germany.

Postdoctoral Researcher. Theory Division of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK) led by Hon.-Prof. Dr. C. H. Keitel, Heidelberg, Germany.

Research Fellowship. Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO, National Institute of Optics), Pisa, Italy. Title of the research project: “Theory and Particle-In-Cell simulation of ion acceleration in the extreme intensity regime”.

Scientific staff. Italian SuperComputing Resource Allocation (ISCRA), class A supercomputing project “Towards Full-Scale Simulations of Laser-Plasma Interaction Experiments” (TOFUSEX). Project led by Dr. A. Macchi. Simulations carried out at CINECA supercomputing facility, Bologna, Italy.

Principal investigator. Experiment title: “Near-field-CTR-based self-focusing in beam-multifoil collisions: towards solid-density beams, extremely-dense gamma-ray pulses and laserless SFQED” (E-332 experiment, FACET-II, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA).

Motivated by theoretical findings with me as corresponding and last author (Physical Review Letters 126, 064801 (2021)), an experiment for the investigation of electron beam self-focusing, solid-density gamma-ray burst generation, and laserless strong-field QED was devised and successfully approved with maximal rating.

Supervisor of electron spin dynamics modeling and simulations. Experiment title: “Polarized Laser-Wakefield-Accelerated Kiloampere Electron Beam” (DESY, Hamburg, Germany). Funding achieved with Dr. K. Poder as principal investigator.

Motivated by theoretical findings with me as corresponding and lead author (Physical Review Letters 122, 214801 (2019)), an experiment aiming at the generation of kA polarized electron beams in laser-plasma wakefield acceleration was devised and successfully approved.

Member of proposal with responsability for modeling strong-field QED effects beyond the locally constant field approximation in electron beam-laser pulse collision. Experiment title: “Definitive Measurement of Quantum Radiation Reaction in the Collision of an Intense Laser-Pulse with a High-Energy Electron Beam” (Gemini laser at Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK). Funding achieved with Dr. S. P. D. Mangles as principal investigator.

Motivated by the need to validate theoretical models of strong-field QED effects. This includes our numerical scheme to incorporate strong-field QED processes beyond the locally constant field approximation in arbitrary background fields (Physical Review A 99, 022125 (2019) and Physical Review A 98, 012134 (2018)).

Secured funding for a 4-year combined Fast Track Master and Ph.D. scholarship for my student Mr. Michael Quin from the International Max Planck Research School for Quantum Dynamics in Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IMPRS-QD), Heidelberg, Germany.

Member of proposal and responsible for supervising the modeling and investigation with particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of dense electron beam-solid interaction. Experiment title: “Beam Filamentation and Bright Gamma-Ray Bursts” (E-305 experiment, FACET-II, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA). Funding achieved with Prof. Dr. S. Corde as principal investigator.

Motivated by theoretical findings with me as corresponding and lead author (Nature Photonics 12, 319-323 (2018)), an experiment for the investigation of filamentation instability accompanied by bright gamma-ray burst emission was devised and successfully approved with maximal rating.

Member of prosal, with responsability for modeling and for investigating strong-field QED effects beyond the locally constant field approximation in electron beam-laser pulse collision. Experiment title: “Probing Strong-field QED at FACET-II” (E-320 experiment, FACET-II, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA). Funding achieved with Dr. S. Meuren as principal investigator.

Motivated by the need to validate theoretical models of strong-field QED effects. This includes our numerical scheme to incorporate strong-field QED processes beyond the locally constant field approximation in arbitrary background fields (Physical Review A 99, 022125 (2019) and Physical Review A 98, 012134 (2018)).

Contributed to successful proposal as theory leader, responsible of simulation, analysis and interpretation of radiation reaction effects in electron beam-laser interaction. Experiment on “Experimental Signatures of the Quantum Nature of Radiation Reaction in the Field of an Ultraintense Laser”. Published in Physical Review X 8, 031004 (2018) with me as first theory author. Funding achieved with Prof. Dr. M. Zepf as principal investigator.

Principal investigator. HPC-EUROPA2 project (Pan-European Research infrastructure on High Performance Computing for 21st century Science, project number: 228398) funded by the European Commission-Capacities Area-Research Infrastructures. Project title: “UMKA Upgrade. Improving Parallel I/O and Scalability in a Multi-Dimensional Particle-in-Cell Code”. Carried out at University of Rostock, Germany (hosted by Prof. Dr. D. Bauer).