Pasquale Barbato

Pasquale Barbato earned his PhD in Physics from  Politecnico di Milano, Italy's leading technical university. His  doctoral research focused on the femtosecond laser micromachining of  fused silica and the development of optofluidic devices for the  generation and manipulation of extreme UV radiation. In July 2024, he  joined the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland to investigate the  ultrafast dynamics behind the femtosecond laser-induced crystallization  of tellurium-based glasses. Most recently, in July 2026, he joined the  SMOLEQ project, working in Professor Yanagisawa’s group at Shizuoka  University.