Antonio Balena graduated in Physics summa cum laude in 2017 and received his Ph.D. in Structures, Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering from Università del Salento in May 2021. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies (IIT@CBN) from June 2021 to November 2021.
He then worked as PostDoc in Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris Sorbonne University from December 2021 to October 2022 and as Researcher in IIT@CBN, in the Multifuncional Neural Interfaces with Deep Brain Regions, starting from October 2022. His research interests include micro and nanofabrication, quantum photonics, and neurophotonics.