Prof. Narducci graduated with top honors in both physics and math from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA in 1989. He then went to the University of Rochester to earn a Master of Arts in 1991 and a Ph.D. in 1996. The late Prof. Leonard Mandel supervised his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled Photon correlations in single and multi-atoms systems.

Upon completion of his degree, he joined the Naval Air Systems Command as a staff physicist establishing his own research team to investigate effects in various atomic systems, including cold atom and warm cells. He was a program manager for the Office of Naval Research from 2000 to 2003. He was elected a NavAir Associate Fellow in 2006 and a full NavAir Fellow in 2012. He won the Dolores Etter Award for Top Navy Scientist (Individual) in 2013 and became the Senior Science and Technology Manager: Position, Navigation and TimeKeeping. He joined the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School in July 2017. He continues his research while teaching.

He has served as Associate Editor for Physical Review A (currently the longest-serving editor) and Associate Editor for Physical Review Letters. He has also guest edited a special Journal of Modern Optics issue for the last ten or so years devoted to the Proceedings of the Conference of The Physics of Quantum Electronics.