Address:
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Ettore Majorana" and INFN sezione di Catania, Università di Catania
Via S. Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy
Email: andrea.rapisarda_at_unict.it
Short Bio
Andrea Rapisarda is associate professor of theoretical physics at the University of Catania , Italy. He has also the qualification of full professor in theoretical physics of fundamental interactions and in theoretical physics of condensed matter.
He is the coordinator of a PhD program in “Complex systems for Physical, Socio-economic and Life Sciences”.
He is an external faculty member of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, co-director of the International School on Complexity of the Ettore Majorana Foundation in Erice with A. Zichichi, G. Benedek, M. Gell-mann, C. Tsallis and member of the Council of the Complex Systems Society.
He is coauthor of more than 170 publications in international journals and member of the editorial board of the International journals Physica A, Heliyon, Cogent Physics, Frontiers in Physics (Social physics), Entropy, Complexity.
His main interests of research are Complex Systems, Statistical mechanics, Chaos theory, Networks and Multi-agent models applied to socio-economic systems.
He is Departmental delegate for strategic planning and President of the Commissione paritetica of DFA. He was also Rector's delegate for Internationalization and Erasmus Coordinator for the University of Catania in the period march 2013 - november 2016.
His main interests of research are Complex Systems, Statistical mechanics, Deterministic chaos, Nonlinear dynamics, Complex networks and Multi-agent models applied to socio-economic systems.
In the last years, Andrea Rapisarda has focused his research on the beneficial role of random strategies in socio-economic systems, the results have been featured in several international newspapers, radio and TV programs such as The New York Times, Forbes, Financial Times, Le Figaro, The Guardian, BBC, Swedish Television, Corean Television SBS, RAI Television and many others ( for recent interviews see this link , for recent talks see this link)
In 2010 together with Alessandro Pluchino and Cesare Garofalo he was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Management at Harvard University (for more info see this link). In 2022 he won again the Ig Nobel Prize for Economics (for more info see this link)
The web page at the Department of Physics and Astronomy "Ettore Majorana" of the University of Catania can be found at this link