Gian Francesco Giudice
Italian theoretical physicist
Gian Francesco Giudice (born 25 January 1961) is an Italian theoretical physicist working at CERN in particle physics and cosmology.
Academic career
After graduating in physics from the University of Padua in 1984, Giudice obtained in 1988 his PhD in theoretical physics from the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste. Between 1988 and 1990, he was a Research Associate at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. Between 1990 and 1992, he was a Research Fellow in the Physics Department of the University of Texas at Austin, in the group led by Steven Weinberg. After being employed by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, in 1993 he moved to CERN, where he is currently the Head of the Theoretical Physics Department. Academician of the Accademia dei Lincei, the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, and Accademia Galileiana, he has been awarded the Jacques Solvay Chair in Physics at the Université libre de Bruxelles (2013), Distinguished Visiting Research Chair at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (2019), Sackler Distinguished Lecturer at Tel Aviv University (2020), Chandrasekhar Lecturer at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (2022), Erwin-Schrödinger Professor at the University of Vienna (2023).
Research
The research activity of Giudice mainly deals with the formulation of new theories that extend our present knowledge of the particle world toward smaller distances. He is also studying how these theories can be applied to cosmology in order to describe the early stages of the history of our universe. His most notable results are in the areas of supersymmetry, extra dimensions, electroweak physics, collider physics, dark matter, and leptogenesis. Together with physicist Riccardo Barbieri, he proposed a widely used criterion to test the degree of naturalness of a supersymmetric theory that achieves electroweak symmetry breaking.
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