Augusto Sagnotti | |
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Born | 1955 Rome, Italy |
Nationality | Italian |
Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | Scuola Normale Superiore |
Alma mater | University of Rome "La Sapienza", California Institute of Technology |
Doctoral advisor | John H. Schwarz |
Doctoral students | Massimo Bianchi and Gianfranco Pradisi (U. Roma "Tor Vergata"), Fabio Riccioni (U. Roma "La Sapienza"), Carlo Angelantonj (U Torino), Dario Francia (Scuola Normale Superiore) |
Known for | Ultraviolet divergences of Einstein gravity, orientifolds, higher spins |
Augusto Sagnotti (born 1955) is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Scuola Normale (since 2005).
Sagnotti earned a Laurea in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1978 (advisors: Bruno Crosignani and Paolo Di Porto); and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Caltech in 1983 (advisor: John H. Schwarz). He was Post-Doctoral Fellow at Caltech (1983–84) and Miller Research Fellow at U.C. Berkeley (1984–86). He was Junior Faculty at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" from 1986 to 1994, then Associate Professor (1994–99) and Professor (2000-2005). He was also a visiting Professor at several international Institutions, including University of Brussels, CERN, DESY, UCLA, Princeton, Humboldt Universitat, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Ecole Normale Superieure, IHES, Ecole Polytechnique, UAM Madrid, U. Uppsala, U. Warsaw. His research activity has been devoted to the quantization of the gravitational field, to String Theory, to Conformal Field Theory and to Higher-Spin Gauge Fields.