Galileo Violini Explained

Galileo Violini is a theoretical physicist and the director emeritus of the in Bogotá, Colombia. He is the recipient of the 2024 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award "for establishing programs in physics education and research in Latin America and the Caribbean that increased regional scientific capacity, for promoting international scientific cooperation across continents and regions of the world, and for creating the Centro Internacional de Física in Colombia."

His main area of interests are science education, science diplomacy, and synchrotron science. He is participating in the project to bring a synchrotron light source to the Greater Caribbean.[1]

Education and career

Violini graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, in 1965, and obtained the Italian Libera docenza in theoretical physics from Sapienza in 1971, where he later became a professor of algebra and mathematical methods of physics. He then became a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Calabria in 1987.[2]

In 1985 he founded the International Center for Physics of Bogotá (Spanish; Castilian: Centro Internacional de Física, CIF), in Colombia, modeled on the International Center for Theoretical Physics,[3] where he is a director emeritus.

Awards and honors

Notes and References

  1. 10.1038/d41586-024-00598-4 . Big science in Latin America: Accelerate particles and progress . 2024 . Castaño . Victor M. . De Córdoba . Pedro Fernández . Sans . Juan A. . Violini . Galileo . Nature . 627 . 8002 . 32–34 . 38438544 . 2024Natur.627...32C . free .
  2. Web site: Centro Internacional de Fisica – The World Academy of Science (UNESCO).
  3. Web site: Spirit of Abdus Salam Award Winners 2016 – International Center for Theoretical Physics. ICTP. ictp.it. 2024-06-12.
  4. Web site: Galileo Violini biography – World Science Forum.