Cristiano Galbiati is professor of physics at Princeton University. He joined the Physics Department at Princeton in 1999, upon graduation from Università degli Studi di Milano and Accademia Navale in Leghorn. His research interests include solar and supernova neutrinos, dark matter, double beta decay, nucleon decay, low-counting experiments and radioactive background, ultra-high energy cosmic rays and neutrinos. He has served on several scientific committees, including the Fermilab Long Baseline Neutrino Committee, the Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee, and the Scientific Committee of the Laboratorio Subterráneo de Canfranc. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has served as a referee for the U.S. National Science Foundation and for the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy. He holds several patents for novel technologies, including a cryogenic distillation column for isotopic separation, a system for onboard storage of ammonia and hydrogen production in absence of carbon and NOX emissions. During the COVID-19 emergency, he co-led with Prof. Art McDonald of Queen’s University the development of the Mechanical Ventilator Milano, which is to our knowledge the sole ventilator developed by the research community that received full approval in the U.S., Canada and EU, and went into production.