Eugenio Coccia#
| Membership Number: | 4092 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.gssi.it/people/professors/lectures-physics/item/204-coccia-eugenio |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6669-5787 |
| X: | @EugenioCoccia |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 - Director of IFAE, Institute for High Energy Physics, Barcelona (Spain)
- 2016 - Rector of the University "Gran Sasso Science Institute", L'Aquila (Italy)
- 2013 - Director of the Gran Sasso Science Institute, PhD School and Center for Advanced Studies, L'Aquila (Italy)
- 2003 - 2009 Director of the INFN Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (Italy)
- 2000 - Full Professor at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (Italy)
- 1987 - 1999 Associate Professor at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (Italy)
- 1983 - 1986 Fellow at CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
- 1981 - 1982 Postdoc fellow of CNR, National Council of Research (Italy)
Fields of Scholarship
- Gravitational wave detectors
- Quantum technologies: 3He-4He Dilution refrigerators, dc Squid electronics
- Cryogenic detectors of particles and weak forces
- Gravitational physics
- Astroparticle physics
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Appointed by the President of the Council of Italy as President of the
- 2017 Fellow of the European Physical Society
- 2017 Medaglia Voltiana – Volta Medal - from the University of Pavia
- 2016 “Special Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics”, together with the other
- 2016 “Gruber Cosmology Prize”, together with the other members of the LIGO-Virgo
- 2016 “Einstein Medal”; together with the other members of the LIGO-Virgo
- 2015 Member of the Academia Europaea.
- 2015 Member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino
- 2015 Appointed by the President of the Council of Italy as member of the Committee of the Experts for the Research Policy (CEPR)
- 2013 Member of the Astroparticle Physics International Committee (APPIC, IUPAP Working Group 10)
- 2013 Councilor of the Italian Physical Society
- 2012 "Giuseppe Occhialini" Medal and Prize from IoP, Institute of Physics (UK), and Sif, Italian Physical Society (Italy)
- 2012 Councilor of the European Physical Society
- 2011 "Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana" from the President of the Italian Republic
- 2011 Chair of the Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC, IUPAP Working Group 11)
- 2004 Team Leader of the ILIAS project funded by EU FP7 program
- 2002 Chair of the INFN Scientific Committee on Astroparticle Physics
- 2000 President of the Italian Society for General Relativity and Gravitational Physics
- 1998 Principal Investigator of the Explorer and Nautilus gravitational wave experiments
- 1984 CERN Fellow
- 1983 Young Physicist Prize, from Sif, Italian Physical Society (Italy)
