Carlo Piermarocchi

Professor of Physics at Michigan State University, with expertise in Condensed Matter Physics, Information Theory and Control Theory in Quantum and Biological Systems. PhD in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) of Lausanne in 1998, and undergraduate degree in Physics summa cum laude from the University of Pisa in 1994. His general research field is Theoretical Physics. He has applied quantitative methods from control theory and statistical physics to study precision medicine and biological control in many scientific papers over the last 10 years. He is author of more than 70 research publications in book chapters and scientific journals, including Science, Nature Physics, and Physical Review Letters.

He has been reviewer and panelist for the NSF and the Department of Energy evaluating academic and small business (SBIR) research proposals. He has received the Donald D. Harrington faculty fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005, and the Young Investigator fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation in 1999. He has been organizer, chair and member of program and advisory committees for several conferences, and has been an invited speaker in over 15 international conferences in the US, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Korea, and India.