Committees

Xavier Artru

Retired from IP2I Lyon, expert in phenomenology and modelling of classical and semi-classical radiation by relativistic electrons in external fields or in matter — synchrotron, channeling, transition and diffraction radiations. Also works on string model descriptions of quark spin effects in high-energy hadron jet production.

Hartmut Backe

Principal investigator in collaborations on transition and parametric radiation by relativistic particles, novel x-ray interferometry and digital K-edge imaging. Recently studied dynamics of channeled particles, channeling radiation and X-ray crystalline undulators.

Stewart Boogert

Director of the Cockcroft Institute for Accelerator Science and Technology (at Daresbury Laboratory, UK) and Professor at the University of Manchester. His research has included advanced electron beam instrumentation and simulation of particle accelerators using Monte Carlo methods; he is one of the creators of the BDSIM simulation code. Currently active in experimental strong field QED and serving as collaboration board chair of the LUXE experiment.

Angela Bracco

Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Milan and INFN associate. She carries out research on the structure of nuclei in international experiments focused on gamma spectroscopy. She is a member of many international scientific and evaluation committees, the Academia Europaea, the Bologna Academy of Sciences and the Lombard Institute. She is President of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) in Bologna and of the 'Enrico Fermi' Historical Museum of Physics and Study & Research Centre in Rome.

Gianluca Cavoto

Professor of Physics at Sapienza University of Rome. Coordinator of the PhD in Accelerator Physics and Technology. Interested in particle physics experiments with muons and neutrinos. Works on applications of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes to particle detectors and composite materials.

Richard Carrigan

Received his undergraduate and PhD degrees in physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1962). Held a position at Carnegie-Mellon University (1962–1968) before joining Fermilab, where he retired in 1998. Among his most significant contributions: demonstrating how bent crystals can be used to extract or deflect particle beams in high-energy accelerators such as the Tevatron.

Ichita Endo

Professor Emeritus at Hiroshima University. Recognized expert in charged particle channeling phenomena, particularly at relativistic energies. Contributed to studies on channeling radiation, including the angular distribution of hard photons from GeV-range electrons passing through Si crystals. Also researched nonlinear Compton scattering and the use of small accelerators in student engineering laboratories.

Vincenzo Guidi

27 years of activity in crystal channeling and 35 years in semiconductor physics applied to accelerator physics. Coordinates the semiconductor lab activities at INFN Ferrara; responsible for UniFe in the EU-pathfinder TECHNO-CLS project devoted to building a channeling-based undulator for hard gamma-ray generation.

Nikolay Kalashnikov

Professor of the National Research Nuclear University 'MEPhI', a prominent specialist in channeling phenomena. His research interests focus on nuclear physics, radiation–matter interactions and solid-state physics at extreme conditions. He is the author and co-author of over 300 publications, 20 textbooks and monographs, including monographs on channeling of ultrarelativistic electrons and channeling radiation.

Fadei Komarov

Academician of NAS of Belarus, author of more than 400 articles (8 reviews), 17 books and more than 40 patents. World-known expert in interactions of beams and radiations in solids — in particular channeling phenomena, ion implantation and material applications (nanostructures, thin films, coating technologies) — recognised for several pioneering results. Has supervised the PhDs of over 40 researchers; his achievements in research and teaching have been recognized with numerous awards.

Artak Mkrtchyan

Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Has been working at the Institute of Applied Problems of Physics since 1985, serving as Director (2006–2022) and currently as scientific leader and head of the Acoustophysics Laboratory. Research covers acoustophysics, condensed matter physics, acoustics, seismics and materials science. Author of over 100 scientific papers on acoustic wave propagation in media, interactions of elementary particles, ionizing radiation and electromagnetic waves with biological objects in the presence and absence of external fields, advanced materials and novel scientific equipment.

Anand Pathak

Professor at University of Hyderabad. Studies on quantum and wave mechanical properties of channeled beams (electrons and ions), elastic/inelastic energy losses, radiation damage, influence of point defects on channeling, channeling radiation and coherent bremsstrahlung.

Alexander Potylitsyn

Professor Potylitsyn, together with his colleagues and students, has obtained a number of original results in the field of radiation physics at the Tomsk synchrotron 'SIRIUS'. His scientific interests are related to various questions of radiation during interaction of relativistic particles with crystals, artificial periodic structures, laser pulses, etc. He is the author of over 250 articles, 4 books, and 2 textbooks.

Mikhail Strikhanov

Professor of the National Research Nuclear University 'MEPhI'. Served as Rector of MEPhI (2007–2021) and currently holds the positions of Scientific Director of MEPhI and Director of its NESPI Institute. His research covers electron channeling in crystals, nuclear relativistic physics and charged-particle beam radiation. He is the author and co-author of about 550 papers and four monographs.

Toshiki Tajima

Norman Rostoker Chair Professor, UC Irvine. Inventor of the Laser Wakefield Accelerator (LWFA) concept based on laser-driven collective fields exceeding conventional accelerator fields by orders of magnitude. Developed applications to FEL drive and endoscopic medical accelerators.

Ulrik Uggerhøj

Professor at University of Aarhus, head of Dept of Physics & Astronomy. Principal investigator at CERN performing experiments on strong field effects — pair production, quantum synchrotron radiation, radiation reaction and tridents — and formation zone effects like the LPM effect, since 1992.

Carsten Welsch

Head of the QUASAR Group, University of Liverpool. Leading expert in accelerator science, driving R&D across frontier and application-focused accelerators — nano-scale high-gradient accelerators and advanced beam diagnostics. Leads large-scale international collaborations, EU networks and interdisciplinary projects spanning beam instrumentation, micro/nano-accelerators and medical applications.

Laura Bandiera

Senior researcher at the INFN Section of Ferrara, where she earned her PhD in Physics in 2015. She specializes in channeling phenomena and coherent interactions of particles with oriented crystals, with applications in particle accelerators and detectors. She has coordinated numerous international beam tests and contributed to phenomenological studies and Monte Carlo algorithm development, with coordination roles in national and European projects.

Alexandre Bonatto

Associate Professor of Physics at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA) and coordinator of the Beam Physics Group (GFF). He leads research on laser–plasma acceleration and compact radiation sources for medical applications. His current work focuses on the optimisation of ultra-compact electron accelerators driven by laser wakefields in nanostructured solid targets, using particle-in-cell simulations and Bayesian optimisation.

G. A. Pablo Cirrone

Expert in high-power laser–matter interaction for radiation production, diagnostics of laser-driven radiations, Monte Carlo Geant4 simulations and medical physics.

Iryna Chaikovska

Physicist at IJCLab/CNRS Orsay, working on positron sources and compact X-ray facilities. Leads positron source activities at IJCLab since 2015. Contributes to the ThomX compact Compton X-ray source — storage ring beam dynamics and associated diagnostics.

Robert Chehab

Senior Accelerator Physicist, known for contributions to conventional and crystal-based positron sources, electromagnetic radiation by ultrarelativistic electrons (optical transition radiation, channeling radiation, Cherenkov radiation), beam dynamics and emittance measurements.

Alessandro Curcio

Physicist specialized in advanced radiation sources and innovative accelerator technologies. Expertise spans laser–plasma acceleration, relativistic light–matter interaction, beam diagnostics and compact secondary radiation sources. Assistant Professor at Sapienza University of Rome.

Danilo Giulietti

Graduated from the University of Pisa and received his PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore. Conducted research in the field of the Structure of the Matter, particularly High-Intensity Laser-Matter Interactions. As a lecturer in "Quantum Optics and Plasmas," he trained many of the researchers and professors currently active in Italy and Europe.

Vahan Kocharyan

Director of the Institute of Applied Problems of Physics, Armenia (since 2022). Research covers particle and radiation beam interactions in various media, X-ray optics and diffractometry, X-ray and terahertz imaging. Author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications.

Thibaut Lefevre

Applied physicist, Head of the CERN beam instrumentation group. Specialises in the development of non-invasive beam diagnostics, with a focus on advancing techniques using polarization radiation and laser-based methods.

Giovanni Mazzitelli

Senior researcher at INFN's National Laboratory of Frascati, with a background spanning gravitational waves, particle accelerators, and detectors, and now engaged in the search for dark matter. As a science communicator, he sees himself as a 'science activist,' dedicated to finding innovative ways to connect research and researchers with young people and society.

Baifei Shen

Professor at Normal University of Shanghai. His research covers particle acceleration with laser and transition radiation, physics with intense vortex laser, inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and magnetized inertial fusion (MIF).

Andrey Solovyov

Professor, Scientific and Executive Director of the Meso-Bio-Nano (MBN) Research Center in Frankfurt-am-Main. His primary research areas include theoretical atomic, molecular and chemical physics, as well as condensed matter physics, computational physics, MBN science, and physics at the interface with natural sciences, technology and medicine. He has pioneered many interdisciplinary research directions and continues to lead numerous international and national research projects. In the field of channeling, he has achieved breakthroughs in the physics of crystalline undulators and crystalline undulator radiation, and in relativistic molecular dynamics of charged particles, leading to the observation of these phenomena and the practical realisation of novel gamma-ray light sources.

Alexey Tishchenko

Leading Researcher and Deputy Head, Dept of Condensed Matter Physics, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI. Head of the Research Lab 'Radiation of Charged Particles' since 2018. Research: compact X-ray and THz sources from relativistic beams, Smith-Purcell and transition radiation, beam diagnostics, metamaterials optics. Author of ~100 publications.

Kouichi Tsuji

Full Professor at Osaka Metropolitan University. Research focuses on the development and improvement of X-ray analytical methods — TXRF, Micro-XRF, confocal micro-XRF, XRF imaging, EPMA — and their applications.

Tongpu Yu

Researcher at NUDT Changsha exploring relativistic laser-plasma physics and applications — laser-driven particle acceleration, novel radiation sources, high-field quantum-electrodynamics (QED), and laser-nuclear physics.

Yury Cherepennikov

Specialist in radiation and nuclear technologies, with research focused on developing instruments and methods for X-ray imaging, radiation medicine, and applied accelerator techniques. Currently a PostDoc at INFN-LNF, working on the design and implementation of analytical X-ray technologies.

Lucia Giuliano

Researcher at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering. Driven by a strong passion for accelerator physics and its biomedical applications, her current research focuses on the design of Very High-Energy Electron (VHEE) sources for future FLASH radiotherapy applications. Alongside her scientific work, she is actively involved in teaching physics in both the Engineering and Medicine and Surgery faculties at Sapienza.

Dariush Hampai

Senior Researcher (Primo Tecnologo) at INFN-LNF, expert in X-ray-based analytical techniques — XRF, XRD and computed tomography (CT) — with strong focus on non-destructive characterization and materials analysis. Technical background encompasses X-ray optics, particularly polycapillary optics for precise beam control, focusing and enhanced sensitivity in micro-XRF and diffraction setups. Long-standing involvement in research and industrial applications requiring high spatial resolution and reliable quantitative data.

Giovanni Delle Monache

Engineer and technologist at INFN, specializing in cryogenic systems and particle accelerator infrastructure. Contributed to the development and operation of the DAΦNE collider as head of the cryogenic service. Involved in international projects including ESA and NASA missions, developing high-precision technologies for scientific measurements and space applications.

Augusto Marcelli

Professor at Camerino University, associated to INFN Turin. Worked at INFN-LNF on synchrotron radiation — XAS, magnetic x-ray dichroism, FTIR micro-spectroscopy, beamlines at ADONE, DAFNE and ESRF. Since 2022 — Scientific Counselor at the Embassy of Italy in Stockholm.

Andrea Mazzolari

An expert in the field of particle channeling in crystals, with research interests centered on the interaction of charged particles with ordered crystalline structures. His work includes the study of channeling phenomena, crystal-assisted beam steering, and applications relevant to high-energy and accelerator physics. He contributes to the development of this research area through scientific collaboration, experimental activities, and the dissemination of knowledge within the community.

Luca Marchitto

Senior Researcher at the CNR Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Energy and Sustainable Mobility. Research focuses on internal combustion engines, spray diagnostics and fuel injection systems using non-intrusive optical techniques including micro-X-ray tomography in collaboration with INFN. Works on characterization of non-exhaust particulate emissions using XRF and XRD techniques.

Luca Porcelli

INFN-LNF physicist specializing in astrophysics instrumentation, space geodesy, optics and laser systems for planetary exploration. Focuses on optical and laser retroreflector technologies for space missions related to fundamental physics, gravitation and planetary science. Contributes to the design, testing and modelling of instrumentation for space experiments and satellites.

Javier Resta-Lopez

He received his Physics degree from the University of Valencia in 2001 and his PhD in Accelerator Physics from CERN in 2007. He held postdoctoral positions at Oxford, IFIC, and KEK, and joined the University of Liverpool in 2014. Since 2020 he is a Distinguished Researcher and Professor at the Institute of Materials Science – University of Valencia (ICMUV), leading advanced research in beam dynamics, plasma physics and novel acceleration techniques.

Guoxing Xia

Associate Professor in Physics at the University of Manchester. He leads research on advanced particle acceleration and beam manipulation, including proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (AWAKE), electron-driven plasma wakefield acceleration, laser-driven carbon nanotube-based ultrahigh gradient particle acceleration, and dielectric wakefield for beam acceleration and manipulation.

Bifeng Lei

Active research scientist specialising in laser-plasma physics. His research focuses primarily on relativistic laser–solid surface plasma interactions for ultra-high-gradient particle acceleration, aiming to advance plasma-based acceleration to the TeV/m regime for both high-energy frontier and ultra-compact particle and radiation sources.