Stefano Vitale, full professor at the Physics department of the University of Trento, has recently been awarded two prizes:
the assembly of Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Venice elected him honorary member in the class of physical, mathematical and natural sciences.
The election will be formalized by decree of the Minister of cultural heritage and activities.
The official designation was announced last 10 June during the ceremony that marked the end of the institute’s academic year.
Professor Vitale has been also awarded the Amaldi medal (the European Prize for Gravitational Physics) for 2018.
The prize will be bestowed at the SIGRAV Italian National Conference which this year will take place in S. Margherita di Pula (Cagliari) from 10 to 15 September.
The prize has been previously awarded to Roger Penrose (2004), Bernard Schultz (2006), Sergio Ferrara (2008), Thibault Damour (2010), Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky (2012), Sergei Odintsov and Nazareno Mandolesi (2014), Adalberto Giazotto and Guido Pizzella (2016).