Dr. Luca Labate is a Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Optics INO, Italian National Research Council. He obtained his MSc at the University of Pisa and his PhD at the University of Bologna. His research interests include ultrashort laser optics, laser-driven particle acceleration and secondary X/gamma-ray sources, and medical applications of laser-driven particle and photon beams. He has an h-index of 26, co-authored 241 publications, and received 2420 citations (Scopus, 21 November 2023).