Alessandro Cianchi is a physicist focusing on particle accelerators, mainly in researching and developing new diagnostic techniques for high brightness electron beams. He is currently working on small and compact machines suitable for driving radiation sources for fundamental or applied researches. His recent studies are focused on plasma accelerators, devices that can obtain high energy beams in a few centimeters. He is responsible for the diagnostics of electron and photon beams in the European project EuPRAXIA, which aims to build a plasma-driven accelerator to drive a free electron laser. He is also responsible for the Working group, which has to create a compact source of fast X radiation, starting from betatrone radiation produced in a plasma. This project was funded under the PNRR as the first project in the research infrastructure category. He is the chair of the group dedicated to the teaching on particle accelerators within the INFN Accelerators network. He worked at Fermilab (USA), at the Desy Laboratories (Germany) and is responsible for particle beam diagnostics at EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB at the INFN National Laboratories in Frascati. He had several invited talks at international conferences and was a member of the program committee of four conferences and chair of the program committee of another. He's author in collaboration of more than 100 papers in specialized journals. He is a member of the academic senate and of his university's doctoral college in physic