Born in Milan on February 16, 1965, he graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in December 1988.
From June 1989 to April 1991 he worked as a Development Engineer at the Carl Baasel Lasertechnik GmbH, Starnberg company. , Germany.
From May 1991 to October 1999 he was a university researcher at the Physics Department of the Politecnico di Milano, with confirmation received in September 1995.
From July 1995 to August 1996 he was visiting scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, California, United States), having won a CNR-NATO Advanced Research Fellowship.
From November 1999 to June 2011 today he was associate professor (scientific disciplinary sector FIS01) at the Physics Department of the Politecnico di Milano, with confirmation received in 2003.
From 1 July 2011 to today he is extraordinary professor (scientific disciplinary sector FIS03) at the Physics Department of the Politecnico di Milano.
Giulio Cerullo is a Full Professor with the Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano, where he leads the Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy laboratory.
Prof. Cerullo’s research activity covers a broad area known as “Ultrafast Optical Science”, and concerns on the one hand pushing our capabilities to generate and manipulate ultrashort light pulses, and on the other hand using such pulses to capture the dynamics of ultrafast events in molecules, nanostructures and two-dimensional materials (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides).
Additional research topics are the applications of ultrafast lasers to coherent Raman microscopy and micro/nanostructuring.
He has published more than 450 papers which have received more than 20000 citations (H-index: 74, Scopus). He is a Fellow of the Optical Society and of the European Physical Society and Chair of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society. He is the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant (2012-2017) on two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy of biomolecules. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journals Optica, Laser&Photonics Reviews, Scientific Reports, Chemical Physics, Journal of Raman spectroscopy.
He is General Chair of the conferences CLEO/Europe 2017, Ultrafast Phenomena 2018 and the International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy 2020.