Caterina Riconda
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Caterina Riconda is an Italian plasma physicist who works in France as a professor at Sorbonne University and researcher in the Laboratory for the Use of Intense Lasers. Riconda's research involves the theoretical, computational, and experimental study of laser-plasma interactions.[1]
Riconda earned a laurea in physics (at the time, the Italian equivalent of a master's degree) from the University of Turin in 1991. She completed a Ph.D. in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997.[2] Her dissertation, Contained modes in inhomogeneous plasmas and their interaction with high energy particles, was supervised by Bruno Coppi.[3]
She has worked in England at the Joint European Torus, and in France at the École polytechnique and CEA Paris-Saclay.[1] She became a junior professor at the University of Bordeaux from 2003 to 2007. She moved to Pierre and Marie Curie University in 2007, and became a full professor there in 2016.[2] Pierre and Marie Curie University became part of Sorbonne University in 2018,[4] and she continues there as a professor.[1][2]
