CARIDI Francesco

"Dr. Francesco Caridi achieved his M.Sc. in Physics cum laude at the University of Messina, Italy, in 2003. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Messina, with an excellent final assessment, in 2007. He was Research Fellow at the Department of Physics, University of Messina, from 2007 to 2008. Then, he served as an Expert Physicist at the Science Faculty and at the Department of Physics of the Messina University from 2008 to 2014. From 2014 to 2020, he was Ph.D. Researcher at the Agency for Environmental Protection of Calabria, Italy. From 2020 to 2023 he has been Junior Researcher in Applied Physics (SC 02-D1, SSD FIS-07) at the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences, University of Messina.
Since 2023 to date he is Senior Researcher in Physics for Life Sciences, Environment and Cultural Heritage (PHYS-06/A) at the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences and Earth Sciences of the University of Messina.
His research interests include, but are not limited to: lasers; laser-matter interaction; plasma production, diagnostics and applications; environmental radioactivity; gamma spectrometry; liquid scintillation; emanometry; ionising radiation; radiation protection; spectroscopic techniques; physics applied to cultural heritage, environment, biology and medicine.
He is author and co-author of 172 publications in international indexed scientific journals, with 1822 citations and h-index 32 (source: Scopus, as of 11-05-2025).