Speakers

Andrea Crisanti is an Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics of Matter and Numerical Methods at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He obtained his Laurea in Physics from the same institution in 1985 and earned his Ph.D. in Physics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1989. His academic career includes positions at École Polytechnique Lausanne and the University of Lausanne before returning to La Sapienza, where he has been a faculty member since 1991. His research focuses on neural networks, disordered spin systems, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. He has authored approximately 140 publications and two books. In addition to his research, he teaches undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. courses in statistical mechanics, analytical mechanics, advanced mathematical methods, and stochastic processes.

Jorge Kurchan is a statistical physicist known for his contributions to non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, glassy dynamics, and complex systems. He is currently Director of Exceptional Class Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Kurchan earned his master's degree in 1985 and his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Buenos Aires. He conducted postdoctoral research at the Weizmann Institute and Sapienza University of Rome before joining École normale supérieure de Lyon as an associate researcher. Since 1996, he has been a CNRS research director, previously serving as Deputy Director of the Henri Poincaré Institute and Director of the Statistical Physics Laboratory at École normale supérieure in Paris. A recognized leader in statistical physics, he has received prestigious awards, including the Prix Paul Langevin (2002) and Prix Servant de la Académie des Sciences (2005). He is the recipient of the 2025 Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society. 

Angelo Vulpiani has been Full Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Physics Department of the University of Rome Sapienza (until October 2024). He was CNR Fellow, assistant professor at University of Rome, associate professor at University of L’ Aquila and at the University of Rome, then full professor at the same University. His scientific interests include chaos and complexity in dynamical systems, statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium and disordered systems, turbulence, transport and diffusion phenomena. He was a visiting fellow in research institutions and universities in France, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, and the United States.  In 2004 he has been elected Fellow of The Institute of Physics (IOP); he has been professor at Centro Interdisciplinare B. Segre, Accademia dei Lincei (2016 - 2019), in addition he is Faculty Member of the Complexity Hub, Vienna (from 2020), the John Bell Institute (from 2019), the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila (from 2014). He received the Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize of the European Physical Society (2021) and the Richardson Medal of the European Geosciences Union (2023).