Luciano Pietronero#
| Membership Number: | 3053 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present President of the Enrico Fermi Research Center (https://www.cref.it
), Rome
- 2017 - present Member of the external faculty, Complexity Hub Vienna
- 2016 - present Senior Advisor of the World Bank (Washington)
- 2004 - 2014 Founder and director of the CNR Institute of Complex Systems
- 2002 - 2005 Member of the Board (CdA) of the Center E. Fermi (Roma)
- 2001 - 2003 Director (Commissario) of the CNR Institute Corbino (IDAC)
- 2001 Founder of the “Centro di Ricerca e Sviluppo” (CRS): Statistical Mechanics and Complexity (SMC)
- 1995 - 2001 Director of the INFM Unit, Univ. of Roma La Sapienza
- 1992 - 1995 Director of the Theory Group, Dep. of Physics, Univ. La Sapienza
- 1987 - 2020 Professor of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Roma “La Sapienza”
- 1983 - 1987 Full Professor of Condensed Matter Theory, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- 1975 - 1983 Brown Boveri Research Center, Baden (CH)
- 1974 - 1975 Associate Scientist, Xerox Webster Research Center, N.Y. USA
- 1972 - 1973 CNR fellowship, Univ of Roma and Orsay (F)
- 1971 Laurea in Physics, Univ. of Roma (110+L)
Fields of Scholarship
- Solid state and condensed matter theory
- Theory of high Tc superconductivity and related problems
- Statistical physics, fractal growth, self-organized criticality and complex structures
Honours and Awards
- Since Dec 2019 President of the Fermi Center
- 2008 Enrico Fermi Prize, main prize of the Italian Physical Society
- European Research Council Advanced Grants. Member of the Panel for Condensed Matter Physics (PE3) for 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2015
- 2012 Member of the EU Academy
- 1990 Fellow of the American Physical Society
