Paolo Giuseppe Radaelli, FInstP (born 11 October 1961) is an Italian physicist and academic.
[1][2] Radaelli obtained a Laurea degree Summa cum Laude in 1986 from University of Milan (his thesis supervisor was Pino Marchesini).
As part of the mandatory Italian National Service, he served for one year in the 28th Infantry Battalion "Pavia" [[[28º_Reggimento_%22Pavia%22]] [it]] as a drill instructor, leaving with the rank of corporal major.
In 1989, he was awarded a travel scholarship by Pirelli Cavi e Sistemi and moved to the Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago) where he later completed a PhD under the academic supervision of Carlo Segre, and working in close collaboration with James D. Jorgensen and David Hinks at Argonne National Laboratory.
In 1998, he became Instrument Scientists and later Crystallography Group Leader at the ISIS neutron source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot, England.