Autore: Giuseppe Mussardo

Giuseppe Mussardo is a Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at SISSA. He belongs to the Statistical Physics Research Group (which he founded in 2005) and is also National Chairman of the INFN special initiative Statistical Field Theory and scientific consultant to the Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group at the Abdus Salam International Centre of Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste. In 2017 he was appointed Kramers Chair at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Utrecht (the Netherlands).  Professor Mussardo is an active member of the International Scientific Board of the International Institute of Physics in Natal (Brazil). He is a former Chairman of QICFT (Quantum Integrability, Conformal Field Theory and Topological Quantum Computation), an IRSES grant with nodes in various countries, and INSTANS, a European network of the European Science Foundation on interdisciplinary statistical and field theory research on low-dimensional quantum systems. Professor Mussardo is Scientific Director of the Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (JSTAT). He has authored a number of articles and produced several documentaries on the history of science and has worked to raise public awareness of this history. In 2013 he was awarded the Italian Physical Society (Società Italiana di Fisica) prize for science dissemination.