Stefano Liberati

Address: SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, 34136, Trieste, Italy.

Ph: +39 040 3787521;  e-mail: liberati@sissa.it; Office: 507.

Present positions

- Full Professor, SISSA, Trieste, Italy,

1. -Director of the Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe. IFPU
   

2. -President of the Società Italiana di Relatività Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione. SIGRAV
   

3. -Incarico di Ricerca INFN, National coordinator of the QUAGRAP Research Initiative
   

4. -Member of the council of the International Society for Quantum Gravity. ISRQG.
   

5. -Member of the Strategic Council of SISSA MediaLab (publisher JCAP and JHEP)
   

Career

2015-Today: Full Professor, SISSA

2010-2015: Associate Professor, SISSA

2009-2010: Research Associate Professor, SISSA

2003-2009: Assistant Professor, SISSA.

2000-2003: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Gravity Theory Group, University of Maryland.

Education 

1995-2000   SISSA, Trieste, Italy, Ph.D. in Astrophysics. Supervisor Professor D.W. Sciama.

1997    Compulsory military service in the Italian Navy. Triest Port Control, Radio Operator.

1989-1995   M.Sc. with honors in Physics. University of Rome, “La Sapienza”.

1984-1989   High School: Liceo Scientifico Amedeo Avogadro, Roma, Italy. 60/60.

International recognition

Awards and honors: 

Fifth prize in the Gravity Essay Competition 2024
Four “honourable mentions” for contributions to the Gravity Essay Competition: years 2000, 2001, 2003, 2021
Invited contributor to Annals of Physics (2003), Living Review of Relativity (2005), Special Issue of IJMPD (2007), Annual review of particle physics (2009), Classical and Quantum gravity (2012).
Second prize winner FQXi essay context year 2010
Fourth prize winner FQXi essay context year 2009
FQXI honorary membership as second prize winner of the essay competition.
2013, Elected member of the steering Committee of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation.
Appointed member of SIGRAV steering Committee. • Invited Co-Chair of the parallel session QFT in curved spacetime, quantum gravity phenomenology and analogue gravity of the GR20 International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation Meeting, Warsaw 2013.

1. •Second prize winner FQXi essay context year 2010 
   

• Fourth prize winner FQXi essay context  year 2009
• FQXI honorary membership as second prize winner of the essay competition.

Citations (2017):

About 240 publications, with a total of about 14k citations; h-index = 58
(INSPIRES database April 2025).
[2 Renowned paper (More than 500 citations), 9 Famous paper (250-499 citations),
23 Very well-known papers (100-249), 40 Well-known papers (50-99).].    
SEE MY PUBLICATIONS ON SPIRES