Francesco Becattini#
| Membership Number: | 3818 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://theory.fi.infn.it/becattini |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1999 - present: Professor University of Florence
- 2013 Visiting scientist at the Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies and University of Frankfurt
- 1996-1999 INFN post-doctoral fellow
Fields of Scholarship
- Relativistic statistical mechanics and thermodynamics
- Hadronization and hadroproduction in high energy collisions
- Relativistic hydrodynamics
- Non-equilibrium quantum field theory
- Relativistic heavy ion collisions and Quark Gluon Plasma
Honours and Awards
- Becattini was elected by the Italian High Energy Nuclear Theorist community to lead and coordinate their joint research effort. Thus, he became the PI of their National Research Project and this community reached a higher level of international recognition, including an ERC Starting Grant to one of the young theorists, Vincenzo Greco.
