Andrea Bassi received his Ph.D. in Physics at Politecnico di Milano in 2006. He conducted research at Beckman Laser Institute, University of California (Irvine) in 2005/2006 as Research Specialist, at Politecnico di Milano from 2009 to 2014 as tenured Researcher, at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (Dresden) in 2013/2014 as Marie Curie Fellow.

Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics of Politecnico di Milano. His scientific interests include optical tomography and microscopy for biological and preclinical applications.