Augusto Sagnotti

Augusto Sagnotti
(2014)
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.