Nicola Lusardi was born in Piacenza on November 25th, 1990. He received his BSc and MSc degrees with honors in Electronic Engineering, as well as a PhD in Information Technology, from Politecnico di Milano. His research focuses on digital architectures on configurable devices, with particular emphasis on state-of-the-art systems for time measurement.

He is affiliated with the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), and he is a member of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS). He is also responsible for FPGA-based electronics in the DSSC experiment at the European XFEL.

In 2020, he was awarded the IEEE NPSS Glenn F. Knoll Postdoctoral Education Grant.

He serves as a referee for several international journals and is the author of more than one hundred peer-reviewed scientific publications. Additionally, he has contributed as an electronics engineer to various collaborative experiments with the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, Netherlands), the LHCb experiment at CERN (Geneva), the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), and the Elettra Synchrotron Group in Trieste (Basovizza, TS).

In 2019, he co-founded TEDIEL Srl, an innovative start-up and spin-off of Politecnico di Milano, based on a novel Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) architecture entirely developed on latest-generation FPGA and SoC devices. The company operates in high-tech application areas including Smart Mobility, Industry 4.0, Health, and Environmental Monitoring.

He has led several R&D projects focused on product innovation through digital electronics, in collaboration with both private and public sector partners (e.g., RFI, Cordon Electronics Italia, CAEN).

He is currently an Associate Professor in the Electronics Section of Politecnico di Milano.