Alessandro Curcio started his career at the University of Pisa with a Master’s Degree thesis on ultra-compact and ultra-bright laser-based X-ray sources. Afterwards, he obtained a position in the Ph.D. school of accelerator physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza, concluding with a thesis on innovative concepts for ultra-bright radiation sources and particle acceleration based on the laser–matter interaction at relativistic intensities. In November 2017, he won a Research Fellowship at the CERN Linear Accelerator for Research (CLEAR), in which he was responsible for the scientific activity on the generation of high accelerating fields via the emission of coherent radiation from ultra-short electron beams and on ultra-short particle diagnostics via THz radiation. At the beginning of 2020, he joined the National Polish Synchrotron Light Source SOLARIS, in Krakow, as Section Leader in beam diagnostics and instrumentation. Afterwards, he has served as Senior Scientist at Pulse Laser Center (CLPU) of Salamanca (Spain) with the main role of designing and developing beamlines and diagnostics for particles and radiation produced in laser-plasma accelerators. Afterwards, he was senior scientist at the National Laboratory of Frascati (Rome) of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN LNF). His main activity was related to the application of compact plasma accelerators for secondary radiation sources. Currently, he is Assistant Professor at the University of Rome Sapienza. Among his main areas of expertise are innovative radiation sources, light-matter interactions and non-linear electrodynamics.