Marco Ornigotti is a theoretical physicist interested in the fundamental aspects of light-matter interaction at both the classical and quantum scale and in unravelling the hidden connections between photonics and other disciplines of physics. He received his Master degree in Photonics and PhD in Physics from Polytechnic Institute of Milan, and the habilitation in theoretical physics from Friedrich Schiller University. Marco spent several years in Germany for his Postdoc, first at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, and University of Rostock. Since 2019 he joined Tampere University, where he is now Associate Professor and leads the Theoretical Optics and Photonics group, whose main research interest concern the interaction of structured light with matter, with particular emphasis on 2D, and epsilon-near-zero materials.