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10 Facts About Luciano Pietronero

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Luciano Pietronero was born on 15 December 1949 and is an Italian physicist and full professor at the department of Physics at the Sapienza University of Rome.

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Luciano Pietronero is Director of the Institute of Complex Systems of the National Research Council.

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Luciano Pietronero is married, has two children and lives in Rome.

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Luciano Pietronero worked first at the Xerox Webster research Center and then the Brown Boveri Research Center where he stayed until 1983.

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Luciano Pietronero is a full professor of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Roma "La Sapienza".

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In 2004 Luciano Pietronero founded the CNR Institute of Complex Systems.

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Luciano Pietronero was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1990 "for contributions to the theory of fractals, including the dielectric-breakdown model and his extensions of the theory of diffusion-limited aggregation and applications of fractal methods to astronomy" In 2007 he was the chairman of the 23rd edition of the STATPHYS conference held in Genova.

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Luciano Pietronero has contributed to the study of fitness economics, an aspect of complexity economics.

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Luciano Pietronero is author of about 350 scientific papers, mostly in leading international scientific journals like Nature; Physical Review Letters; Rev Mod.

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Luciano Pietronero is the author of a monographic volume and the editor of several volumes of proceedings.