Curriculum Vitae

2020 — Associate Professor at Laboratoire pour l’Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

2017-2020 Postdoc at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory-Stanford University, High-Energy Density Science Division, CA, USA

2014 - 2017 PhD thesis funded by the Labex Plas@Par (cum Laude at the Univ. of Pisa)
      Collisionless shocks in the context of Laboratory Astrophysics,
      joint supervision between the Univ. of Pisa, Italy (Dr. Macchi, Pr. Pegoraro)
      & the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, LULI, Paris, France (Pr. Riconda)

2007 - 2014 Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Physics (110/110, Summa Cum Laude)
      Department of Physics Enrico Fermi, University of Pisa, Italy
      Master's project: Vlasov simulations of nonlinear wave dynamics and
      particle acceleration in laser-plasma interaction (direction of Dr. Macchi)
      Bachelor's project: Optimization of the control system of a microwave
      gravimetric gradiometer (direction of Pr. Beverini)

2024 APS-EPS Landau Spitzer Award for Outstanding Contributions to Plasma Physics (link)
2023 Young Scientist Award awarded from Matter and Radiation at Extremes (link)
2018 Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis among Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, and Science of the Earth, awarded by the University of Pisa (link)
2018 Prix René Pellat of the Plasma Physics Division of the French Physical Society,
 awarded for the Ph.D. thesis (link)

Link to my Google scholar and my ORCID

[20] Evolution of autoresonant plasma wave excitation in two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. M. Luo, C. Riconda, A. Grassi, N. Wang, J.S. Wurtele, T. Fülöp, I. Pusztai. Journal of Plasma Physics 91 (1), E31 (2025)
[19] Growth rate of self-sustained QED cascades induced by intense lasers. A. Mercuri-Baron, A. A. Mironov, C. Riconda, A. Grassi, and M. Grech. Phys. Review X 15(1), 011062 (2025)
[18] Control of autoresonant plasma beat-wave wakefield excitation. M. Luo, C. Riconda, I. Pusztai, A. Grassi, J. S. Wurtele, T. Fulop. Phys. Review Research 6(1), 013338 (2024)
[17] Electron injection via modified diffusive shock acceleration in high-Mach number collisionless shocks. A. Grassi, H. G. Rinderknecht, G. F. Swadling, D. P. Higginson, H.-S. Park, A. Spitkovsky, and F. Fiuza. APJ Letter 958 L32 (2023)
[16] On the control of electron heating for optimal laser radiation pressure ion acceleration. H.-G. J. Chou, A. Grassi, S. H. Glenzer, F. Fiuza. Journal of Plasma Physics 88 (6),  905880606 (2022)
[15] Radiation pressure acceleration of high-quality ion beams using ultrashort laser pulses. H.-G. J. Chou, A. Grassi, S. H. Glenzer, F. Fiuza. Phys. Review Research 4, L022056 (2022)
[14] Investigating strong-field QED processes in laser-electron beam collisions at Apollon. M. Grech, L. Lancia, I. Andriyash, P. Audebert, A. Beck, S. Corde, X. Davoine, M. Frotin, A. Grassi, et al. White paper (2021)
[13] Impact of the laser spatio-temporal shape on Breit–Wheeler pair production. A. Mercuri- Baron, M. Grech, F. Niel, A. Grassi, et al. New Journal of Physics 23 (8), 085006 (2021)
[12] Efficient generation of collisionless shocks in laser-ablated plasmas. A. Grassi & F. Fiuza. Phys. Rev. Research 3, 023124 (2021)
[11] Electron acceleration in laboratory-produced turbulent collisionless shocks. F. Fiuza, G.F. Swadling, A. Grassi, et al. Nature Physics 16, 916–920 (2020)
[10] Physics and phenomenology of weakly magnetized, relativistic astrophysical shock waves. A. Vanthieghem, M. Lemoine, I. Plotnikov, A. Grassi, et al. Galaxies 8(2), 33 (2020) 

[9] Momentum Absorption and Magnetic Field Generation by Obliquely Incident Light. A. Macchi, A. Grassi, F. Amiranoff, C. Riconda. Eur. Phys. J. Plus 134, 420 (2019)
[8] Laboratory investigation of particle acceleration and magnetic field compression in collisionless colliding fast plasma flows. D. P. Higginson, Ph. Korneev, C. Ruyer, R. Riquier, Q. Moreno, J. Beard, S. N. Chen, A. Grassi, et al. Communications Physics 2, 60 (2019)
[7] Les lasers ultra-intenses au service de l’astrophysique de laboratoire: de l’instabilité de Weibel aux chocs non-collisionnels. A. Grassi La Gazette du Vide #35, juin 2019
[6] Perpendicular relativistic shocks in magnetized pair-plasmas. I. Plotnikov, A. Grassi, M. Grech. Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society 477 (2018)
[5] SMILEI: a collaborative, open-source, multi-purpose particle-in-cell code for plasma simulation. J. Dérouillat, A. Beck, T. Vinci, M. Chiaramello, A. Grassi, et al. Comp. Phys. Comm. 222 (2018)
[4] Radiation Pressure Driven Ion Weibel Instability and Collisionless Shocks. A. Grassi, M. Grech, F. Amiranoff, A. Macchi, C. Riconda, Physical Review E 96, (2017)
[3] Electron Weibel Instability in Relativistic Counter-Streaming Plasmas with Flow-Aligned External Magnetic Fields. A. Grassi, M. Grech, F. Amiranoff, F. Pegoraro, A. Macchi, C. Riconda, Phys. Rev. E 95 (2017)
[2] Vlasov simulation of laser-driven shock acceleration and ion turbulence. A. Grassi, L. Fedeli, A. Sgattoni, A. Macchi. Plasma Phys. and Control. Fus. 58 (2016)
[1] Phase space dynamics after the breaking of a relativistic Langmuir wave in a thermal plasma. A. Grassi, L. Fedeli, A. Macchi, S. V. Bulanov, F. Pegoraro, European J. Phys. D 68 (2014)