Guglielmo Lanzani graduated in Solid State Physics at the University of Milan, Italy in 1987 and received his PhD in Chemical Physics at the University of Genova in 1991. Starting 1993 he was researcher at the Istituto di Matematica e Fisica of the University of Sassari, Italy. Since 1999 he has been Associate Professor at the Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
His research activity is focused on the experimental investigation of carbon based -conjugated materials, with particular interest to elementary excitation dynamics in the ultrafast time domain. He has co-authored about 130 articles and several reviews in journals and book publications.