Francesco Sannino
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Francesco Sannino is an Italian theoretical physicist and a professor at the University of Southern Denmark
University of Southern Denmark
The University of Southern Denmark, with campuses located in the southwestern part of Denmark - i.e. Funen, Southern Jutland and Sealand - is a research and educational institution with deep regional roots and an international outlook. Reaching even further south, the university offers a number of...

. He is an expert in effective field theories and their applications to strongly coupled theories such as quantum chromodynamics
Quantum chromodynamics
In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics is a theory of the strong interaction , a fundamental force describing the interactions of the quarks and gluons making up hadrons . It is the study of the SU Yang–Mills theory of color-charged fermions...

. He is also an expert in beyond standard model physics and quantum field theory. He received a bachelor's degree at the University of Naples, Federico II in 1992 and soon after won the INFN fellowship for young researchers. He has two PhD degrees awarded simultaneously in physics in 1997, one from the University of Syracuse and the other from the University of Naples. In 1997 he was hired at Yale
YALE
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 as a research fellow, and in 2000 he moved to NORDITA (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics) as a research fellow. In 2004 he won the Marie Curie Excellence Grant awarded by the European Commission
European Commission
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] and became Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry...

 fellow while associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute
Niels Bohr Institute
The Niels Bohr Institute is a research institute of the University of Copenhagen. The research of the institute spans astronomy, geophysics, nanotechnology, particle physics, quantum mechanics and biophysics....

. In 2007 he has been a paid associate at CERN
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , is an international organization whose purpose is to operate the world's largest particle physics laboratory, which is situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border...

 while becoming full professor at the University of Southern Denmark
University of Southern Denmark
The University of Southern Denmark, with campuses located in the southwestern part of Denmark - i.e. Funen, Southern Jutland and Sealand - is a research and educational institution with deep regional roots and an international outlook. Reaching even further south, the university offers a number of...

. In 2009 the centre of excellence for particle physics phenomenology was formed under his leadership by the Danish Research Foundation.
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