Maurizio Monti – Electronic and vibrational dynamics of novel materials

Maurizio Monti. © INSP – Cécile Duflot

Maurizio Monti, lecturer (Sorbonne University), joined INSP in September 2025. He is assigned to the Photonics and Coherence of Spin team.

Maurizio Monti’s research focuses on ultrafast spectroscopy, from THz to X-rays, to study the electronic and vibrational dynamics of novel materials ranging from semiconductors to quantum materials.

Maurizio earned his PhD in 2020 at the university of Warwick (United Kingdom) under the supervision of Prof. James Lloyd-Hughes, using ultrafast spectroscopy to study the dynamics of hot carriers in perovskite semiconductors. Maurizio worked then as a postdoc at Aarhus university (2020-2023), focussing on the ultrafast structural dynamics of quantum materials, using a combination of visible spectroscopy and time-resolved x-ray diffraction. Afterwards he worked as a postdoc at the Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans, where he studied nonlinear excitation of phonons via THz drive.