Giovanni Jona-Lasinio#
| Membership Number: | 4261 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - present Emeritus Professor, University of Rome, La Sapienza
- 1974 - 2007 Full Professor of Mathematical Methods of Physics, University of Rome, La Sapienza
- 1970 - 1974 Full Professor of Electrodynamics, University of Padua
- 1956 - 1970 Researcher INFN, National Institute of Nuclear Research
- 1983 - 1984 Visiting Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI
- 1980 - 1981 Visiting Professor, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette
- 1965 - 1966 Researcher, MIT, Cambridge, MA
- 1964 - 1965 Researcher, CERN, Geneva
- 1959 - 1960 Research Associate, University of Chicago
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantum field theory
- Rigorous constructive Euclidean field theory
- Renormalization group and its probabilistic aspects
- Statistical mechanics of equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems
- Probability and Stochastic processes
- Large deviations
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Boltzmann Medal awarded by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
- 2012 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics awarded by the American Physical Society
- 2006 Feltrinelli Prize awarded by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 2002 International Conference on Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics organized in his honor
- 2004 Issue of the Journal of Statistical Physics dedicated to him
- 1990 - present Member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, first as a Correspondent, then as a Full Member
