Fabio Zwirner#
| Membership Number: | 4098 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.pd.infn.it/~zwirner |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021, 10- present Vice-Rector for Research, University of Padua
- 2005, 11- present Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Padua
- 2014, 10 - 2015, 09 Paid Scientific Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (on leave from the University of Padua)
- 2004, 01 - 2004, 12 Paid Scientific Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (on leave from the University of Rome La Sapienza)
- 2000, 11 - 2005, 10 Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Rome La Sapienza
- 1998 - 2000 Director of Research, INFN, Sezione di Padova
- 1993 - 1998 First Researcher, INFN, Sezione di Padova
- 1990 - 1996 Staff Member, Theory Division, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (on leave from INFN, Padua)
- 1989 - 1990 Postdoctoral Fellow, Theory Division, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (on leave from INFN, Padua)
- 1988 - 1993 Permanent Researcher, INFN, Sezione di Padova
- 1986 - 1989 Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and Physics Department of University of California, Berkeley, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Theory and phenomenology of the fundamental interactions
- Weak interactions and Higgs boson physics
- Supersymmetry and Supergravity
- Superstring compactifications and their effective supergravity theories
- Extensions of the Standard Model
Honours and Awards
- ICTP 2024 Spirit of Salam Award
- Member (2015-2020) and Vice-President (2019-2020) of the ERC Scientific Council
- Chairman (2014-2022) of the Steering Committee of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
- Member (2007-2013) and Chairman (2011-3) of the CERN Scientific Policy Committee
- Member of the Strategy Secretariat of the European Strategy Session of the CERN Council (2011-2013)
- Corresponding Member of Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti (since 2005)
- Editor (2003-present) of JHEP, The Journal of High Energy Physics
- Member ((2002-2011), Secretary (2007-2009) and Chair (2009-11) of the High Energy Particle Physics (HEPP) Board of the European Physical Society (EPS)
