Brief Curriculum Vitae
Francesco Iachello
Josiah Willard Gibbs Professor
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Personal
Born January 11, 1942, Francofonte, Siracusa, Italy
Education
Dott. Ing. Nucl. (Nuclear Engineering) 1964, Politecnico di Torino (1959-1964)
Ph.D. (Theoretical Physics) 1969, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966-69)
Academic Experience
Assistant Professor, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 1964-66
Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1967-69
Associate Professor, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 1971-74
Professor, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, 1974-82
Professor 1978-90; J.W. Gibbs Professor 1990-Present, Yale University
Visiting Professor, Universita’ di Trento, Italy, Fall 1982
Visiting Zernike Professor, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, Spring 1997
Visiting Professor, Universita’ di Padova, Italy, Spring 2009
Honors and Awards
AKZO Prize, Netherlands Society of Sciences, 1981
Wigner Medal, Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation, 1990
Taormina Prize, Italy, 1991
Honorary Doctorate, University of Ferrara, Italy, 1992
Bonner Prize, American Physical Society, 1993
Honorary Doctorate, Chung Yuan University, Republic of China, 1993
Honorary Doctorate, University of Seville, Spain, 1993
Honorary Professorship, Nanjing University, China, 1995
Zernike Professorship, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, 1997
Centennial Prize, Italian Physical Society, 1997
Eminent Scientist Award, RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan, 2000
Lise Meitner Prize, European Physical Society, 2002
Honorary Doctorate, University of Bucharest, Romania, 2005
Italian Medal of Science, 2007
Majorana Prize, Majorana Foundation, 2007
Commemorative Medal, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 2008
Somaini Prize, Centro Volta Foundation, Como, Italy, 2009
Fermi Prize, Italian Physical Society, 2010
Honorary Doctorate, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 2016
Honorary Doctorate, Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany, 2017
Honorary Professorship, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China, 2017
Professional Societies
Fellow, American Physical Society
Member, European Physical Society
Member, Italian Physical Society
Member, Netherlands Physical Society
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Member, American Chemical Society
Member, American Mathematical Society
Member, Mathematical Association of America
Honorary Fellow, Hungarian Eotvos Physical Society
Honorary Fellow, Hellenic Nuclear Physics Society
Honorary Fellow, Italian Physical Society
Academies
Foreign member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Foreign member, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Foreign member, Mexican Academy of Science, Mexico City, Mexico
Foreign member, Accademia Galileana, Padova, Italy
Foreign member, Accademia Zelantea, Acireale, Italy
Foreign member, Academia Europaea, London, United Kingdom
Activities
Member, Scientific Committee, Synchrocyclotron, Orsay, France, 1976-82
Member, Program Committee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, 1981-84
Member, Advisory Committee, UNISOR, Oak Ridge, TN, 1982-84
Member, Advisory Committee, Superconducting Cyclotron, Milano, Italy, 1982-84
Member, Advisory Committee, Bates Linear Accelerator, Middleton, MA, 1986-90
Chairman, Advisory Committee, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro, Italy, 1987-95
Member, Advisory Committee, Center for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, 1989-92
Member, Advisory Committee, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, 1990-92
Member, Board of Trustees, Group Theory Foundation, Austin, TX, 1992-Present
Member, Group Theory Panel, Board of National Sciences, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1993-97
Director, Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, 1995
Chairman, Advisory Committee, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy, 1995-2002
Member, Review Committee, Grand Accelerateur d’Ions Lourdes, Caen, France, 1996-97
Member, Review Committee, Department of Physics, Universidad de Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1996-97
Member, Review Committee, Theory Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 1997
Member, Review Committee, Theory Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, 1998
Member Review Committee, Theory Group, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, 1998
Chairman, Coordination Committee, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Rome, Italy 2001-08
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, SPIRAL2, Caen, France, 2002-12
Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, Demokritos Laboratory, Athens, Greece, 2004
Member, Evaluation Committee, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Rome, Italy, 2005-11
Chairman, Review Committee, European Center for Theoretical Physics, Trento, Italy, 2007
Member, Review Committee, High-intensity Gamma-ray Source, Triangle Universities, Durham, NC, 2007
Member, International Advisory Committee, Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany, 2012-15