Francesco Sannino
Professor, Director
Phone: (+45) 6550 4318
Mobile: (+45) 2135 6088
Email: sannino @ cp3.dias.sdu.dk
Short CV
Education
- 1997 PhD in Physics, Syracuse Univ. US. With "Honors"
- 1997 PhD in Physics at Univ., ‘FEDERICO II’, Napoli, Italia
- 1993 Perfecting school in theoretical and mathematical physics., ‘FEDERICO II’, Napoli, Italia
- 1993 Laurea in Physics, score 121/110 cum summa laude, at Univ., ‘FEDERICO II’, Napoli, Italia
Employment
- 2009 - Director of the DNRF Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics Phenomenology: CP³-Origins
- 2007 - Professor and Research Leader at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
- 2007 Paid Scientific Associate CERN - Theory Division
- 2004 - 2009 Winner and Leader of the Excellence Grant (EXT) in Theoretical Physic sponsored by the EU - Commission. EXT(fp6 programme) = ERC (fp7 programme)
- 2004 - 2007 Associate Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute
- 2004 - 2008 Skou Fellow of the Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation
- 2000 – 2004 EU RTN and EU Marie Curie Fellow: NORDITA
- 1997 - 2000 Research-Associate: Yale University., US
- 1993 - 1996 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare INFN, fellow
Grants, Prizes and Memberships
- 2011 PI for VKR Blokstipendier (24 Months Postdoc)
- 2011 PI for the "iParticle" grant (8000 Eur)
- 2010 Danish Centre of Super Computing grant. (500 Kkr)
- 2010 Elite Research Prize from the Danish Ministry of Science. (1.2 Mkr)
- 2009 - 2014 Director of the DNRF Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics Phenomenology: CP³-Origins. (40 Mkr)
- 2008 - 2012 Danish Centre of Super Computing: 2 grants for a total of (800 Kkr)
- 2009 - 2011 Major Framework Grant from Danish National Agency (3.5 Mkr)
- 2005 - 2009 Leader of the FP6 Marie Curie Excellence Grant (EXT) in Physics. 11.5 Mkr. The EXT is the FP6 Equivalent of the ERC Starting Grant.
- 2007 - 2009 PI for “VKR blokstipendier 2007” & EU MC Fellowship. 1M Kr
- 2008 - 2011 NordForsk Grant: LHC and Beyond. PI for SDU & JYV (FIN)
- 2008 - 2011 Steering committee for FIST graduate school “Geomaps”
- 2010 - Listed as Top Italian scientists in any field of science
Students
- 2004 - 2009 Mads T. Frandsen (Master + PhD) & 2010 Lundbeck prize. Now at Oxford. Sapere Aude Prize 2012 and fellowship.
- 2004 - 2005 Bjarke Gudnason (Master).
- 2004 - 2009 Thomas A. Ryttov (Master + PhD), Sapere Aude prize 2011 and Fellowship. Now at Harvard
- 2008- Matti Antola (PhD, co-supervisor)
- 2008- Matti Heikinheimo (PhD, co-supervisor)
- 2008- Phongpichit Channuie (Master+PhD)
- 2009- Jakob Jark Jørgensen (Master+PhD). Elite program. Oticon Scholarship prize.
- 2009- Matin Mojaza (Master). Elite program.
- 2009- Ulrik Ishøj Søndergaard (Master+PhD). Elite program. Oticon Scholarship prize.
- 2010- Martin Zangenberg (Bachelor). Oticon Scholarship prize, CP³-Genius program.
- 2010- Karin Dissauer (Bachelor). Erasmus and CP³-Genius program.
- 2010- Eugenio Del Nobile (PhD)
- 2010- Tuomas Hapala (PhD)
- 2010- Anna Beata Lukawska (Bachelor)
- 2011- Matin Mojaza (PhD)
- 2011- Esben Mølgaard (PhD)
Research Interests
Strong Interactions
- Phases of Strongly Interacting Theories
- Lattice QCD
- Confinement and Chiral Symmetry Breaking
- Alternative Large N limits for Strong Interactions
- Color Superconductivity
- Hadron Physics
- Effective Theories
- Gauge-Gauge Dualities
Extensions of the Standard Model
- Technicolor
- Supersymmetry
- Grand Unified Theories
- Strong CP problem
- Dark Matter
- Extra Dimensions
- Neutrino Physics
- LHC Phenomenology
Supersymmetry and String Theory
- Effective theories for supersymmetry
- N=1/2 Supersymmetry
- N=1 Supersymmetry
- Dynamical Susy Breaking
- Gauge Gravity Correspondence
Selected Plenary Presentations, Reviews and Invited Lectures
2012- Lecturer on the "Standard Model and Beyond" at the NORDITA, Stockholm "Winter Theoretical School" in high energy physics. January.
- Amsterdam Particle Physics Meeting, Amsterdam, Holland. December
- 8th Vienna Central European Meeting in Physics, Austria, November
- Stony - Brook, US. November
- Laboratory Colloquium, Brookhaven, US. November
- High Energy Talk, FERMILAB, US. November
- Lattice meets LHC, FERMILAB, US. November
- Strong Cosmology Meeting, Amsterdam, Holland. November
- Graduate School, Napoli University, Italy. October
- DESY Graduate School, Germany, October
- Confinement and QCD, ETC* Trento, Italy. September
- Scalars 2011, Warsaw, Poland. August
- Freiburg, Germany. August
- Würzburg, Germany. July
- Composite dynamics for TeV Physics, NExT Graduate School, RAL, July
- Discovering technicolor, Würzburg, Germany, July
- A natural universe made by a composite inflaton, Higgs, and dark matter. NORDITA, Stockholm, June
- Composite dynamics for a natural universe, LHC & Plank Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, June
- Phases of Gauge Theories, Jena, Germany, April
- Role of Heavy Fermions, Potoroz, Slovenia, April
- Conformal dynamics for TeV physics and cosmology, Center for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, LNF, Frascati, Italy. January
2010
- Progress on strong dynamics, Annual Theory Meeting, IPPP - Durham, 2010. December
- S like in Strong Dynamics, CERN. Switzerland, November
- Strong dynamics on Supercomputers, Danish Center for Super Computing, Copenhagen, Denmark. November
- Strong Dynamics, Barcelona, Spain. September
- New strong dynamics at the TeV scale, SUSY 2010. Bonn, Germany. August
- Phases of gauge theories of fundamental interactions, Quark Matter Roma, Italy, July
- Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, PASCOS meeting, Valencia, Spain, July
- Strong Dynamics for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Particle Physics and Cosmology (PPC) meeting, Torino, Italy. July
- Conformal strong dynamics. Graz, Austria, June
- Discovering Technicolor, Oxford, Boost 2010, UK. June
- Novel strong dynamics for TeV Physics. ETH, Zurich. April
Courses