Riccardo Zamboni received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Padova with a thesis titled “Study of light driven phenomena for optofluidic applications in Lab-On-a-Chip platforms in lithium niobate”. His Ph.D. was certified with the label “Doctor Europaeus”, and was supervised by Prof. Sada (University of Padova) and Prof. Mathieu Chauvet, Université de Franche-Comté, where part of his research was conducted.

From 2020 to 2022, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nonlinear Photonics group at the Institute of Applied Physics, University of Münster. In January 2023, he was awarded with a Walter Benjamin position to pursue his independent research project, “Microfluidic Droplet dynamics Actuated by Light‐Induced Virtual Electrodes ‐ µDrop ALIVE”, financed by Deutsche Forschunggemeinschaft‐DFG. In March 2025, he joined the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Engineering.