Paolo Di Lazzaro, senior researcher and chief of research at ENEA, www.enea.it. He is currently involved in experimental and theoretical studies on the development of coherent and not coherent light sources, including diagnostics, and on the interaction of light with matter and plasmas. Winner of the National Award of the Italian Physical Society in 1990 and of the Award of Excellence ENEA in 2008. Author/coauthor of more than 300 papers published in international journals, conference proceedings and chapters of books. Awarded 8 national and international patents. The detailed list of publications is available at http://www.frascati.enea.it/UTAPRAD/uploads/all/pubblicazioni_di%20lazzaro.pdf Member of several international scientific committees, since 1987 he has been responsible for numerous task groups in European projects. Chair of 5 international workshops and 4 international conferences on Lasers and their applications. Profile and papers in http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paolo_Di_Lazzaro and https://enea.academia.edu/PaoloDiLazzaro Besides the scientific activity, he lectured at schools of every level and participated in several popular science television programs.