Matteo Mitrano

Matteo Mitrano is an experimental condensed matter physicist. He received his PhD in 2015 for his work at the Max-Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg (Germany) and then continued his research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) as a Feodor Lynen postdoctoral fellow funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Since 2020, he has been Assistant Professor of Physics at Harvard University (USA). His research investigates fundamental problems in quantum materials and their nonequilibrium properties, pursuing quantum control of strongly correlated electronic phases through advanced ultrafast optical and scattering probes in his laboratory and at large-scale facilities. His work has been recognized with the LCLS Young Investigator Award (2019), the PRISM Prize of the Italian National Research Council (2021), the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award (2022), the IUPAP Early Career Award for Structural Dynamics (2024), and a Mercator Fellowship of the German Physical Society (2025)