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Matteo Mitrano is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in 2015 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, Germany, and continued his research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Feodor Lynen postdoctoral fellow funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2020, he joined Harvard as an Assistant Professor. His research focuses on investigating fundamental problems in quantum materials and their nonequilibrium properties, utilizing advanced ultrafast optical scattering probes and large-scale facilities. His work has garnered multiple accolades, including the LCLS Young Investigator Award in 2019, the PRISM Prize from the Italian National Research Council in 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award in 2022, the IUPAP Early Career Award in Structural Dynamics in 2024, and the Mercator Fellowship from the German Physical Society in 2025.
Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).