Riccardo Rossi, born in 1992, achieved a master’s degree in energy engineering in 2016. He started a PhD in industrial engineering at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” in November 2016. His principal research activities regard the study of dust resuspension and mobilisation in the case of loss of vacuum accidents in nuclear fusion reactors, and the development of innovative optical diagnostics for chemical (LIDAR) and biological (LIF) detection.