Francesco Zamponi
Francesco Zamponi received a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Rome "Sapienza" and was then a postdoc at ENS and CEA in Paris, before joining CNRS in 2008 as a permanent researcher. He is currently based at the Physics Department of ENS in Paris. His research is driven by the application of ideas and methods issued from the statistical mechanics of complex systems, to problems arising in classical and quantum condensed matter, biology, information theory, and mathematics. He has published over 130 research articles, and he wrote a chapter for the Handbook of Satisfiability (IOS Press) and a book on the Theory of Simple Glasses (Cambridge University Press). He was awarded an ERC Consolidator grant (GlassUniversality) and he is one of the Principal Investigators of the Simons collaboration on "Cracking the glass problem".
