Massimo Vergassola#
| Membership Number: | 6730 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://qbio.ens.psl.eu/en/people/massimo-vergassola |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7212-8244 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 CNRS, Directeur de Recherche (Classe CE)
- 2019 Professor ENS-PSL, Paris
- 2019 Director of the ENS-PSL QBio Center on Quantitative Biology
- 2013 - 2019 Professor at the University of California San Diego, Physics Department
- 2009 - 2013 Professor Ecole Polytechnique, Physics Department
- 2004 - 2013 CNRS, Directeur de Recherche, Institut Pasteur, Paris
- 2004 - 2013 Head of the Unit Physics of Biological Systems at the Pasteur Institute, Paris (Dept. Genetics & Genomics)
- 2003 Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Mathematics, Princeton
- 2001 - 2003 Visiting Scientist, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller Univ., New York
- 1996 - 2004 CNRS, Chargé/Directeur de Recherche, Observatoire Côte d'Azur, Nice
Fields of Scholarship
- Physics of living systems
- Fluid dynamics
- Continuum mechanics
- Statistical physics
Honours and Awards
- 2017 - 2021 Elected to the Chair line of the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Biological Physics (DBIO)
- 2016 APS Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2013 Plenary speaker at Statphys 25, Seoul
- 2012 Research Award Equipe Fondation Recherche Médicale
- 2010 Biomedical Prize Thérèse Lebrasseur, Fondation de France
- 2008 Grand Prix EADS (Sciences de l’Information), Académie des Sciences
- 2008 Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society
- 1998 CNRS Research Award Bronze Medal
- 1986 Student Award Accademia dei Lincei, Rome
