CV of FRANCESCO PEGORARO
F. Pegoraro was born in Udine, Italy on 04/30/1947.
He studied physics at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) of Pisa and graduated in physics in November 1970 . He obtained his ``perfezionamento’’ (Doctorate) in physics in June 1974 at the SNS with a thesis on General Relativity.
He began his research activity in plasma physics in the two-year period 1974-76 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Upon returning to Italy in the autumn of 1976, he first became Assistant Professor and then, in 1983, Associate Professor in plasma physics at the SNS. From 09-1987 to 11-1989 he held the role of Group Leader in the Theory division of the fusion experiment Joint European Torus (JET) in Culham (Oxford, UK).
In November 1990 he was appointed full Professor of theoretical physics at the University of Turin. In November 1996 he was appointed full professor of plasma physics at the University of Pisa where he served until November 2017 (retirement). In July 2022 he was appointed Emeritus Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Pisa.
In 12-2006 he was named honorary professor at Moscow Physical Technical Institute, Dolgoprudny, Russia. In 2015 he was awarded the Order of the Cherubim by Pisa University.
In 2008 he was appointed Corresponding Member of the National Academy dei Lincei and in 2021 National Member. In 2022 he joined the new Italian Academy of Engineering and Technology as a Founding Member.
His research activity was performed within a network of international collaborations in the Netherlands (Fom Instituut voor Plasma Physica, Utrecht), in Russia (General Physics Institute, Moscow), in Japan (APRC-JAERI, Kizu), in China (National University of Defense Technology, Changsha) and in the United States (University of Texas at Austin) and in the Czech Republic in Prague (ELI Beamlines).
He served in several national and international Scientific Councils and Evaluation Committees and as co-editor of plasma physics journals.
F. Pegoraro is internationally known for the results of his research in different aspects of plasma physics, their non-linear dynamics and their applications. His research ranges from the physics of controlled thermonuclear fusion, to magnetospheric and solar plasmas, to relativistic plasmas produced by the interaction with matter of high intensity laser pulses.
He is the author of 400 articles published in international refereed journals, with more than 12,500 citations (about 11,000 without self-citations) with an h-index of 59, as well as some teaching texts.