Lorenzo Piroli

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of Physics and Astronomy "Augusto Righi"

Academic discipline: FIS/02 Theoretical Physics, Mathematical Models and Methods

Curriculum vitae

Accademic Career

05/2023 – today: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Physics department, University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)
09/2021 – 04/2023: Postdoc (Junior Research Chair), Philippe Meyer Institute for Theoretical Physics, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (France)
03/2021 – 08/2021: Postdoc, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching (Germany)
03/2019 – 02/2021: Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching (Germany)
11/2018 – 02/2019: Postdoc, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching (Germany)

Education

11/2014 – 10/2018: PhD student in Statistical Physics, SISSA, Trieste (Italy)
09/2009 – 07/2014: Student in Physics, Scuola Normale Superiore and University of Pisa, Pisa (Italy)

Awards and fundings

ERC Starting Grant 2023, awarded by the European Research Council, for the project QUANTHEM (duration 60 months)
Fubini Award for the best PhD thesis in Theoretical Physics in Italy, 2019 Edition
SISSA Award for the best PhD thesis in Physics, 2019 Edition
Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers (duration 24 months)

Research and teaching