Personal Data
Matteo Tamburini
| address | Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK) Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics Saupfercheckweg 1 69117 Heidelberg Germany | |
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| matteo.tamburini@mpi-hd.mpg.de | ||
| phone | + 49 (0)6221 516-161 | |
| office | BO349 |
Education History
| Jan. 2008 - Nov. 2011 | 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. |
| Dec. 2010 | Course on “Standard formats for scientific data (HDF5, XML, …)”, CINECA supercomputing facility, Bologna, Italy. |
| Jul. 2010 | 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. |
| Oct. 2003 - May 2007 | 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. |
| Oct. 1998 - Oct. 2003 | 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. |
Employment History
| Dec. 2022 - present | Group Leader. Group “Extreme Field Quantum Plasma Dynamics and Relativistic Laboratory Astrophysics”, Theory Division of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK) led by Hon.-Prof. Dr. C. H. Keitel, Heidelberg, Germany. |
| May 2018 - present | Lecturer, International Max Planck Research School in Quantum Dynamics (IMPRS-QD), Heidelberg, Germany. |
| Nov. 2016 - Dec. 2022 | Team leader. Team Quantumplasma, Theory Division of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK) led by Hon.-Prof. Dr. C. H. Keitel, Heidelberg, Germany. |
| Nov. 2011 - Nov. 2016 | Postdoctoral Researcher. Theory Division of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK) led by Hon.-Prof. Dr. C. H. Keitel, Heidelberg, Germany. |
| Feb. 2011 - Aug. 2011 | 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”. |
| Jul. 2010 - Jul. 2011 | 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. |
Successful Proposals and Funding
| 2021 - present | Co-Principal investigator with Prof. Dr. S. Corde. 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). |
| 2020 - present | Member of proposal with responsibility 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. |
| 2019 - 2023 | Secured funding for a 4-year combined Fast Track Master and Ph.D. scholarship for my student Mr. Michael J. Quin from the International Max Planck Research School for Quantum Dynamics in Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IMPRS-QD), Heidelberg, Germany. |
| 2018 - present | 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. |
| 2018 - present | Member of proposal, with responsibility 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. |
| 2016 - 2018 | Contributed to successful experiment as 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). Funding achieved with Prof. Dr. M. Zepf as principal investigator. |
| Jun. 2011 - Jul. 2011 | 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). |
Community Services
Organizer Oct. 2019 – present | Seminar Theoretical Quantum Dynamics (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg). |
| Reviewer for international scientific journals | Physical Review Letters, Nature Physics, New Journal of Physics, Physical Review Research, Physical Review A, Physical Review E, The European Physical Journal Plus, The European Physical Journal D, AIP Advances, Communications Physics, Journal of Plasma Physics, Physics of Plasmas, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Scientific Reports, Physics Letters A, High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Laser and Particle Beams, Matter and Radiation at Extremes IOP trusted reviewer for the exceptionally high level of peer review competency. |
| Reviewer for scientific funding bodies | Foundation for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics “BASIS”, Russian Federation. |
Preprints
Publications in MPIK
25Effect of interparticle fields and radiation reaction on beam dynamics
M. J. Quin, A. Di Piazza, C. H. Keitel, and M. Tamburini
Physical Review Research 7, 023210 (2025)
24Coherent frequency combs from electrons colliding with a laser pulse
M. J. Quin, A. Di Piazza, and M. Tamburini
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 67, 055008 (2025)
23Challenging beyond-the-standard-model solutions to the fine-structure anomaly in heavy muonic atoms
K. A. Beyer, I. A. Valuev, C. H. Keitel, M. Tamburini, and N. S. Oreshkina
Physics Letters B 854, 138746 (2024)
22Polarized QED cascades over pulsar polar caps
H. Song and M. Tamburini
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 530, 2087-2095 (2024)
21Spin-polarized electron beam generation in the colliding-pulse injection scheme
Z. Gong, M. J. Quin, S. Bohlen, C. H. Keitel, K. Põder, and M. Tamburini
Matter and radiation at extremes 8, 064005 (2023)
20Colliding pulse injection of polarized electron bunches in a laser-plasma accelerator
S. Bohlen, Z. Gong, M. J. Quin, M. Tamburini, and K. Põder
Physical Review Research 5, 033205 (2023)
19SFQEDtoolkit: A high-performance library for the accurate modeling of strong-field QED processes in PIC and Monte Carlo codes
S. Montefiori and M. Tamburini
Computer Physics Communications 292, 108855 (2023)
18Strong signature of one-loop self-energy in polarization resolved nonlinear Compton scattering
Y. Li, Y. Chen, K. Z. Hatsagortsyan, A. Di Piazza, M. Tamburini, and C. H. Keitel
Physical Review D 107, 116020 (2023)
17Probing strong-field QED in beam-plasma collisions
A. Matheron, P. San Miguel Claveria, R. Ariniello, H. Ekerfelt, F. Fiuza, S. Gessner, M. F. Gilljohann, M. J. Hogan, C. H. Keitel, A. Knetsch, M. Litos, Y. Mankovska, S. Montefiori, Z. Nie, B. O'Shea, J. R. Peterson, D. Storey, Y. Wu, X. Xu, V. Zakharova, X. Davoine, L. Gremillet, M. Tamburini, and S. Corde
Communications Physics 6, 141 (2023)
16Spatiotemporal dynamics of ultrarelativistic beam-plasma instabilities
P. S. M. Claveria, X. Davoine, J. R. Peterson, M. Gilljohann, I. Andriyash, R. Ariniello, C. Clarke, H. Ekerfelt, C. Emma, J. Faure, S. Gessner, M. J. Hogan, C. Joshi, C. H. Keitel, A. Knetsch, O. Kononenko, M. Litos, Y. Mankovska, K. Marsh, A. Matheron, Z. Nie, B. O'Shea, D. Storey, N. Vafaei-Najafabadi, Y. Wu, X. Xu, J. Yan, C. Zhang, M. Tamburini, F. Fiuza, L. Gremillet, and S. Corde
Physical Review Research 4, 023085 (2022)
15Single particle detection system for strong-field QED experiments
F. C. Salgado, N. Cavanagh, M. Tamburini, D. W. Storey, R. Beyer, P. H. Bucksbaum, Z. Chen, A. Di Piazza, E. Gerstmayr, Harsh, E. Isele, A. R. Junghans, C. H. Keitel, S. Kuschel, C. F. Nielsen, D. A. Reis, C. Roedel, G. Sarri, A. Seidel, C. Schneider, U. I. Uggerhøj, J. Wulff, V. Yakimenko, C. Zepter, S. Meuren, and M. Zepf
New Journal of Physics 24, 015002 (2021)
14Observing light-by-light scattering in vacuum with an asymmetric photon collider
M. Sangal, C. H. Keitel, and M. Tamburini
Physical Review D 104, L111101 (2021)
13Efficient high-energy photon production in the supercritical QED regime
M. Tamburini and S. Meuren
Physical Review D 104, L091903 (2021)
12Extremely Dense Gamma-Ray Pulses in Electron Beam-Multifoil Collisions
A. Sampath, X. Davoine, S. Corde, L. Gremillet, M. Gilljohann, M. Sangal, C. H. Keitel, R. Ariniello, J. Cary, H. Ekerfelt, C. Emma, F. Fiuza, H. Fujii, M. Hogan, C. Joshi, A. Knetsch, O. Kononenko, V. Lee, M. Litos, K. Marsh, Z. Nie, B. O'Shea, J. R. Peterson, P. S. M. Claveria, D. Storey, Y. Wu, X. Xu, C. Zhang, and M. Tamburini
Physical Review Letters 126, 064801 (2021)
MPIK press release: How to make a gamma-ray pulse with the density of a solid
MPIK-Pressemitteilung: Wie man einen Gammastrahlenpuls mit der Dichte eines Festkörpers erzeugen kann
11Testing Strong Field QED Close to the Fully Nonperturbative Regime Using Aligned Crystals
A. Di Piazza, T. N. Wistisen, M. Tamburini, and U. I. Uggerhøj
Physical Review Letters 124, 044801 (2020)
10Polarized Laser-WakeField-Accelerated Kiloampere Electron Beams
M. Wen, M. Tamburini, and C. H. Keitel
Physical Review Letters 122, 214801 (2019)
MPIK-Pressemitteilung: Laserblitze für polarisierte Elektronen- und Positronenstrahlen
pro-physik.de: Polarisationstransfer via Laserpuls
physik.cosmos-indirekt.de: Laserblitze für polarisierte Elektronen- und Positronenstrahlen
chemie.de: Laserblitze für polarisierte Elektronen- und Positronenstrahlen
9Improved local-constant-field approximation for strong-field QED codes
A. Di Piazza, M. Tamburini, S. Meuren, and C. H. Keitel
Physical Review A 99, 022125 (2019)
8Towards realistic simulations of QED cascades: Non-ideal laser and electron seeding effects
A. Sampath and M. Tamburini
Physics of Plasmas 25, 083104 (2018)
7Implementing nonlinear Compton scattering beyond the local-constant-field approximation
A. Di Piazza, M. Tamburini, S. Meuren, and C. H. Keitel
Physical Review A 98, 012134 (2018)
6Experimental Signatures of the Quantum Nature of Radiation Reaction in the Field of an Ultraintense Laser
K. Poder, M. Tamburini, G. Sarri, A. Di Piazza, S. Kuschel, C. D. Baird, K. Behm, S. Bohlen, J. M. Cole, D. J. Corvan, M. Duff, E. Gerstmayr, C. H. Keitel, K. Krushelnick, S. P. D. Mangles, P. McKenna, C. D. Murphy, Z. Najmudin, C. P. Ridgers, G. M. Samarin, D. R. Symes, A. G. R. Thomas, J. Warwick, and M. Zepf
Physical Review X 8, 031004 (2018)
MPIK-Pressemitteilung: Intensives Licht verlangsamt hochenergetische Elektronen
5Giant collimated gamma-ray flashes
A. Benedetti, M. Tamburini, and C. H. Keitel
Nature Photonics 12, 319-323 (2018)
Nature News & Views: Instability yields bright gamma emission
MPIK-Pressemitteilung: Gammastrahlungsblitze aus Plasmafäden
idw-Pressemitteilung: Gammastrahlungsblitze aus Plasmafäden
physik.cosmos-indirekt.de: Gammastrahlungsblitze aus Plasmafäden
4Laser-pulse-shape control of seeded QED cascades
M. Tamburini, A. Di Piazza, and C. H. Keitel
Scientific Reports 7, 5694 (2017)
3Plasma-Based Generation and Control of a Single Few-Cycle High-Energy Ultrahigh-Intensity Laser Pulse
M. Tamburini, A. Di Piazza, T. V. Liseykina, and C. H. Keitel
Physical Review Letters 113, 025005 (2014)
2Electron dynamics controlled via self-interaction
M. Tamburini, C. H. Keitel, and A. Di Piazza
Physical Review E 89, 021201 (2014)
1Radiation reaction effects on electron nonlinear dynamics and ion acceleration in laser-solid interaction
M. Tamburini, F. Pegoraro, A. Di Piazza, C. H. Keitel, T. V. Liseykina, and A. Macchi
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 653, 181-185 (2011)
Other Publications
“Radiation-pressure-dominant acceleration: Polarization and radiation reaction effects and energy increase in three-dimensional simulations”, M. Tamburini, T. V. Liseykina, F. Pegoraro, A. Macchi, Physical Review E 85, 016407 (2012).
“Radiation reaction effects on radiation pressure acceleration”, M. Tamburini, F. Pegoraro, A. Di Piazza, C. H. Keitel, A. Macchi, New Journal of Physics 12, 123005 (2010).
“Cosmology and astrophysics of minimal dark matter”, Marco Cirelli, Alessandro Strumia, Matteo Tamburini (alphabetical author order), Nuclear Physics B 787, 152-175 (2007).