A.M. received a M.Sc. degree (Laurea) in Physics from the University of Pisa in 1995 with honors (110/110 cum laude) and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa in 1999 with honors (70/70 cum laude).
A.M. has been active in laser-matter interaction at very high intensities, beginning as an experimentalist (mostly working on X-ray emission from laser-produced plasmas) and later focusing on theory and simulation, still in close contact with experimental work. He has given contributions on topics such as collisionless absorption, nonlinear surface plasmons, ion acceleration, radiation friction, nonlinear coherent structures.
A.M. is a staff research scientist with CNR/INO since 2010. Previously he was with CNR/INFM (2003-2009). He held a postdoctoral position at the Darmstadt University of Technology (1998-2000) and an International Fellowship at the Queen's University of Belfast (2008). He participated to many collaborative European and Italian projects, also as principal investigator or local coordinator since 2005. A.M. is the author or coauthor of more than 85 publications on peer reviewed journals (with a H-index of 28 to date, ISI data) including one Review of Modern Physics and 13 Physical Review Letters, the single author of a textbook on Laser-Plasma Interactions (Springer, 2013) and the first author of a textbook with 157 Problems in Classical Electromagnetism (Springer, 2017). He presented tens of seminars and talks (both invited and contributed) to international conferences and schools.
A.M. has been serving as a referee for more than 35 international journals (with recognition as outstanding referee for the American Physical Society in 2015) and for 8 funding and evaluation agencies of different countries. From 2018, A.M. serves in the Editorial Board of EPJ Plus.
A.M. collaborates since 2002 to teaching activities at the Physics Department of the University of Pisa for the undergraduate (B.Sc.), postgraduate (M.Sc.) and doctorate (Ph.D.) programs. He gives lecture courses of Plasma Physics since 2009 and is Lecturer of Classical Electrodynamics since 2012. He has been the supervisor of 5 Ph.D., 16 postgraduate (M.Sc.) and 17 undergraduate (B.Sc.) students to date.