Primary activity: Coherent effects and their applications in alkali vapors: Coherent Population Trapping, Electromagnetically Induced Transparency, Electromagnetically Induced Absorption in cells and applications to magnetometry.
Study of atom/surface interaction: Light Induced Atomic Desorption and its applications for fundamental physics and sensors.
Diode laser molecular spectroscopy of molecules of atmospheric interest
Atom cooling

Main experiences acquired: Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
Laser technologies
Surfaces
Kinetic effects of light on atoms and gas
Laser cooling
Coherent phenomena

Scientific manager for INO of Funded Projects:
Sorgenti di atomi controllate la luce per spettroscopia coerente ed altre applicazioni
Progetto Mostra interattiva �LUDOTECA SCIENTIFICA, Dialogar di scienza sperimentando sotto la Torre� LuS 2012
Progetto Mostra interattiva �LUDOTECA SCIENTIFICA, Dialogar di scienza sperimentando sotto la Torre� LuS 2013
Progetto Mostra interattiva �LUDOTECA SCIENTIFICA, Dialogar di scienza sperimentando sotto la Torre� LuS 2014
Progetto Mostra interattiva �LUDOTECA SCIENTIFICA, Dialogar di scienza sperimentando sotto la Torre� LuS 2015
Progetto Mostra interattiva �LUDOTECA SCIENTIFICA, Dialogar di scienza sperimentando sotto la Torre� LuS 2016

Others Funded Projects in which he/she participates:
Sensore ottico per la rivelazione di Protossido di Azoto
Magnetic Induction Tomography with Optical Sensors

Publications, Research Results, now, in INO’s database are: 97
  –   Papers JCR/ISI Journals, are: 84
  –   Books or Chapters, are: 7
  –   Papers in Journals not indexed JCR/ISI, are: 0
  –   Conference proceedings, are: 11
  –   Abstract, are: 29

Bibliometric indices are calculated USING ONLY THE INO DATABASE and the number of citations from “WEB OF SCIENCE” (of Thomson Reuters) is updated at 2025-04-06
  –   maximum number of citations for an article: 184
  –   maximum impact factor (IF) for a journal when an article is published: 6.462
  –   H-INDEX: 19   G-INDEX: 29   HC-INDEX (contemporary): 7 
  –   List of TopTen papers in citations  –   List of TopTen journals in Impact Factor