The University of Sassari celebrates Research Doctorate Day 2024

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SASSARI. On Thursday 27 June, starting from 10.00, the Aula Magna of the University of Sassari will host the celebration of the 2024 Research Doctorate Day.

This is the inauguration of the new Academic Year of Research Doctorates, an event that sums up the one just concluded and announces the forecasts for the new year. The ceremony will open with greetings from the Magnificent Rector Gavino Mariotti, includes the delivery of parchments to 40 PhDs and prizes to the authors of the best PhD theses of the 34th and 35th cycle: they are, for the scientific area , Giuseppe Garroni of the Doctorate Course in Biomedical Sciences and for the humanistic area Cinzia Roggio of the Doctorate Course in Archaeology, History and Human Sciences.

This year the event will be enriched by the presence of Gian Francesco Giudice, Director of the Department of Theoretical Physics at CERN in Geneva, who will hold a Lectio Magistralis entitled "The Quantum Universe".

Born in Padua in 1961, he graduated from the University of Padua and obtained a doctorate in Theoretical Physics from SISSA in Trieste. He was Research Associate of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago, Research Fellow at the University of Texas in the group of Nobel Prize winner Prof. Steven Weinberg, worked at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and then moved in 1993 to CERN in Geneva. He was Jacques Solvay Chair at the Solvay Institute in Brussels, Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute in Canada, Chandrasekhar Lecturer at the Tata Institute in India, Sackler Distinguished Lecturer at Tel Aviv University and Schrödinger Guest Professor at the University of Vienna. He has always been very active in scientific dissemination, while as regards research activities, he boasts over 200 scientific publications on the topic of the formulation of new theories of elementary particles and their applications to the history of the primordial universe. He has served on scientific committees on large particle colliders around the world and on planning for future accelerators. 

The event will be broadcast live on the website www.uniss.it