Professor Dr. Lorenzo Matteini

Biography

Lorenzo Matteini is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London. He is a senior lecturer and a member of the Space Plasma Physics group, where he focuses on the complex processes that characterize the evolution of space astrophysical plasmas. Matteini has a rich background in space physics, having previously served as an Assistant Astronomer at the Paris Observatory and worked as a research associate at Imperial College from 2012 to 2017. He completed his PhD at the University of Florence in 2008 and has held post-doctoral positions at both the Paris Observatory and the University of Florence. He has collaborated extensively with international institutes and research groups, including those at UCLA, the University of California Berkeley, and Queen Mary University of London. His research particularly emphasizes the study of weakly collisional systems in thermodynamical equilibrium and the unique characteristics of the Heliosphere as a plasma laboratory, leveraging data from various spacecraft missions such as Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe. Matteini specializes in theoretical numerical modeling of collisionless plasmas, employing kinetic codes for his analyses.

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