Alessandro Strumia was born on 26 December 1969 and is an Italian physicist at the University of Pisa.
11 Facts About Alessandro Strumia
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Alessandro Strumia's research focuses on high energy physics, beyond the Standard Model, studying the flavour of elementary particle, charge conjugation parity symmetry violations, and the Higgs boson.
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In September 2018, Strumia gave a controversial presentation at CERN's first Workshop on High Energy Theory and Gender, where he claimed that male, not female scientists, were the victims of discrimination on the part of universities.
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Alessandro Strumia obtained his PhD in 1995, at the University of Pisa, where his doctoral advisor was Riccardo Barbieri.
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Alessandro Strumia is one of the originators of the idea of Minimal Flavor Violation, a proposal to characterize the effects of flavor transitions in new theories of particle physics.
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In 2004, together with Riccardo Barbieri, Alex Pomarol and Riccardo Rattazzi, Alessandro Strumia laid out a conceptually clear and practically useful framework for the analysis of the combined electroweak precision data of the low- and high-energy phases of the LEP experiments.
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Marco Cirelli and Alessandro Strumia were amongst multiple teams that used digital photos from a conference presentation by other authors in 2008 in Stockholm for a subsequent publication.
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On 28 September 2018, Alessandro Strumia gave a presentation at CERN's first Workshop on High Energy Theory and Gender that provoked considerable controversy.
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Alessandro Strumia claimed that his results suggest that male scientists were victims of discrimination.
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An anonymous commentary on Alessandro Strumia's talk and the community response was published in Areo magazine.
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One supporter of Alessandro Strumia was the former string theorist Lubos Motl.