
Director of CP3-Origins, Co-Director Danish IAS, Professor
CP3-Origins
Phone: (+45) 6550 4318
Mobile: (+45) 2135 6088
Email: sannino @ cp3.sdu.dk
Short CV
Education
- 1997 PhD in Physics, Syracuse Univ. US. With "Honors"
- 1997 PhD in Physics at Univ., ‘FEDERICO II’, Napoli, Italia
- 1993 Perfecting school in theoretical and mathematical physics., ‘FEDERICO II’, Napoli, Italia
- 1993 Laurea in Physics, score 121/110 summa cum laude, at Univ., ‘FEDERICO II’, Napoli, Italia
Employment
Books & Reviews
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- Dynamical Stabilization of the Fermi Scale: Towards a Composite Universe. F. Sannino, Springer Briefs in Physics 2012.
- Conformal Dynamics for TeV Physics and Cosmology. F. Sannino, Acta. Phys. Polon. B40 (2009) 3533-3743.
Grants, Prizes and Memberships
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- 2015 Elected Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
- European Research Council panel member for "Fundamental Constituents of Matter"
- 2014 Director of CP3-Origins for the second period. 40Mkr
- 2013 CoPI for the European PRACE grant of 7M core supercomputer hours
- 2012 Physics Letters B Referee Award
- 2012 CoPI for the European PRACE grant for 22M core supercomputers hours
- 2011 PI for VKR Blokstipendier (24 Months Postdoc)
- 2011 PI for the "iParticle" grant (8000 Eur)
- 2010 - Listed as Top Italian scientists in any field of science
- 2010 Danish Centre of Super Computing grant. (500 Kkr)
- 2010 Elite Research Prize from the Danish Ministry of Science. (1.2 Mkr)
- 2009 - 2014 Director of the DNRF Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics Phenomenology: CP³-Origins. (40 Mkr)
- 2008 - 2012 Danish Centre of Super Computing: 2 grants for a total of (800 Kkr)
- 2009 - 2011 Major Framework Grant from Danish National Agency (3.5 Mkr)
- 2005 - 2009 Leader of the FP6 Marie Curie Excellence Grant (EXT) in Physics. 11.5 Mkr. The EXT is the FP6 Equivalent of the ERC Starting Grant.
- 2007 - 2009 PI for “VKR blokstipendier 2007” & EU MC Fellowship. 1M Kr
- 2008 - 2011 NordForsk Grant: LHC and Beyond. PI for SDU & JYV (FIN)
- 2008 - 2011 Steering committee for FIST graduate school “Geomaps”
PhD Students
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- 2015 Arianna Tonniato
- 2014 Kasper Langæble
- 2014 Niklas Grønlund Nielsen
- 2013 Ole Svendsen
- 2012 Jens Krog
- 2012 Jakob Jark Jørgensen
- 2012 Ulrik Ishøj Søndergaard
- 2011 Esben Mølgaard.
- 2011 Matin Mojaza
- 2010 Eugenio Del Nobile
- 2010 Tuomas Hapola
- 2009 Phongpichit Channuie
- 2008 Matti Antola Co-supervisor
- 2008 Matti Heikinheimo, Co-supervisor
- 2004 Mads T. Frandsen
- 2004 Thomas A. Ryttov
Master Students
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- 2004 Mads T. Frandsen
- 2004 Bjarke Gudnason
- 2004 Thomas A. Ryttov
- 2008 Phongpichit Channuie
- 2009 Jakob Jark Jørgensen
- 2009 Matin Mojaza
- 2009 Ulrik Ishøj Søndergaard
- 2011 Jens Krog
- 2011 Ole Svendsen
- 2012 Karin Dissauer from Graz Univ.
- 2012 Helene Gertov
- 2013 Maria Breinholt, Mathematical Physics
- 2014 Kasper Langæble
- 2014 Niklas Grønlund Nielsen
- 2014- Nicolai Sandal Banke
- 2015- Sofie Gregersen
- 2015 Anders Eller Thomsen
Bachelor Students
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- 2013 Niklas Grønlund Nielsen
- 2012 Nikolai Sandal Banke
- 2012 Helene Gertov, Oticon scholarship
- 2010 Anna Beata Lukawska
- 2010 Karin Dissauer, Erasmus
- 2010 Martin Zangenberg. Oticon scholarship, & CERN summer student
- 2008 Jakob Jark Jørgensen, Oticon scholarship
Research Interests
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Gauge Theories of Fundamental Interactions
- Asymptotic Safety
- Phases of Gauge Theories
- Conformal structure of Gauge - Yukawa Theories
- Lattice QCD
- Confinement and Chiral Symmetry Breaking
- Alternative Large N limits for Strong Interactions
- Color Superconductivity
- Hadron Physics
- Effective Theories
- Gauge-Gauge Dualities
Standard Model and its Dark and Bright Extensions
- Standard Model consistent perturbation theory & Vacuum stability
- Electroweak theory
- Quantum Conformal Extensions
- Composite Higgs Theories [Technicolor, Extreme compositeness, Super-Technicolor, ...]
- Strong CP problem
- Supersymmetry
- Grand Unified Theories
- Dark Matter models [Asymmetric/Mixed, Composite, Interfering, Magnetic & SEXy ]
- Lattice Dark Matter
- Extra Dimensions
- Neutrino Physics
- LHC Phenomenology
Supersymmetry and String Theory
- Effective theories for supersymmetry
- N=1/2 Supersymmetry
- N=1 Supersymmetry
- Dynamical Susy Breaking
- Gauge Gravity Correspondence
Cosmology
- Inflation
- Composite Inflation
Selected Plenary Presentations, Reviews and Invited Lectures
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2015
- Plenary, Scalar 2015 international meeting, Warsaw, Poland. December
- Colloquium, Albert-Einstein Center, Bern, Switzerland. November
- Colloquium, Univ. of Regensburg, Germany. November
- String theory invited seminar at Southampton. November
- Colloquium, department of physics, Aarhus University. Denmark. October
- Webinar Korean Institute for Advanced Study. October
- CERN, invited talk at workshop on high-precision alpha at LHC run 2. October
- PACIFIC 2015, Lecturer, Polynesia. September
- Plenary talk, Lattice 2015, Kobe, Japan. July
- Lecturer and organiser, IPPP Durham workshop on UV physics, UI. July
- Lecturer, Tel Aviv Workshop on Lattice BSM, Israel. June
- Lecturer, Workshop "Lattice BSM", Livermore National Laboratory, US. April
- Lecturer, San Diego, University of California, US. April
- Lecturer, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. April
- NORDITA Workshop, Sweden. March
- SCGT 2015, Nagoya, Japan. March
- Lecturer, SISSA, Trieste, Italy. March
- University Colloquium, Stuttgart University, Germany. January
- University Colloquium, Frankfurt University, Germany. January
2014
- LNF - Rethinking Naturanless, Rome, Italy. December
- Lecturer Heraeus-Seminar, Bad-Honnef, Germany. November
- Lecturer CoDyCE workshop, Lyon. France. November
- Lecturer Durham University, UK. October
- Lecturer Sussex University, UK. October.
- Lecturer Cambridge University, UK. October.
- Lecturer ECT*, DSEs in Modern Mathematics & Physics, Trento, Italy
- Convener Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum XI, St. Petersburg, Russia, September
- Convener SUSY 2014, Manchester, UK, July
- Lecturer in Rom, Italy, May
- Organiser Schladming School, Austria, March
- Lecturer at the Sussex workshop on "Asymptotic safety meets particle physics", Sussex, UK
- Lecturer at DESY, Zeuthen, Germany, January
- Lecturer at the Mads Clausen Institute, Denmark, January
2013
- Lecturer at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, US, December
- Lecturer at NeXT institute in Southampton, UK, November
- Lecturer at Helsinki, Finland, November
- Lecturer at Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg Germany, October
- New Perspective in Dark Matter, Plenary, Lyon, France, October
- Scalars 2013, Warsaw, Plenary, Poland, September
- Beyond LHC, Plenary, NORDITA, Stockholm, Sweden, July
- Lattice Beyond the Standard Model, review talk, Aspen Centre for Physics, US, June
- Probing the Standard Model and New Physics at Low and High Energies, Portoroz, Lecturer, Slovenia. April
- Higgs centre, Edinburgh, April
- Pisa Univ., Lecture, March
- Graz Univ. Lecture, March
- Franco-Italian Meetings for Physics of Flavor (B physics). Plenary, LAPP, February, Annecy-le-Vieux, France. February
2012
- SCGT 12, Nagoya, Japan. Plenary talk. December
- Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Plenary, EPJ selected Plenary, Munich, Germany, October
- ATLAS week, Switzerland, October
- 24th Indian-Summer School of Physics, Lecturer, Prague, Czech Republic. September
- Preschool lecturer SUSY 2012. Beijing, China. August
- APCTP - Meeting on LHC and Holography, Lecturer, Korea, July - August
- Strong and Electroweak Matter, Swansea, Plenary, July UK
- Nordita Origin of Mass Meeting, May - June, Plenary, Stockholm, Sweden
- Mini Workshop SCGT, Nagoya, Japan, Plenary, March
- Schladming Winter School, Lecturer, February - March, Austria
- Heraeus-Seminar Bad Honnef Lecture, Plenary, Germany. February 2012.
- Montreal, McGill, Toronto, Perimeter and Univ. of York invited Canada Lectures. January - February 2012
- Lecturer on the "Standard Model and Beyond" at the NORDITA, Stockholm "Winter Theoretical School" in high energy physics. January.
2011
- Amsterdam Particle Physics Meeting, Amsterdam, Holland. December
- 8th Vienna Central European Meeting in Physics, Austria, November
- Stony - Brook, US. November
- Laboratory Colloquium, Brookhaven, US. November
- High Energy Talk, FERMILAB, US. November
- Lattice meets LHC, FERMILAB, US. November
- Strong Cosmology Meeting, Amsterdam, Holland. November
- Graduate School, Napoli University, Italy. October
- DESY Graduate School, Germany, October
- Confinement and QCD, ETC* Trento, Italy. September
- Scalars 2011, Warsaw, Poland. August
- Freiburg, Germany. August
- Würzburg, Germany. July
- Composite dynamics for TeV Physics, NExT Graduate School, RAL, July
- Discovering technicolor, Würzburg, Germany, July
- A natural universe made by a composite inflaton, Higgs, and dark matter. NORDITA, Stockholm, June
- Composite dynamics for a natural universe, LHC & Plank Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, June
- Phases of Gauge Theories, Jena, Germany, April
- Role of Heavy Fermions, Potoroz, Slovenia, April
- Conformal dynamics for TeV physics and cosmology, Center for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, LNF, Frascati, Italy. January
- Progress on strong dynamics, Annual Theory Meeting, IPPP - Durham, 2010. December
- S like in Strong Dynamics, CERN. Switzerland, November
- Strong dynamics on Supercomputers, Danish Center for Super Computing, Copenhagen, Denmark. November
- Strong Dynamics, Barcelona, Spain. September
- New strong dynamics at the TeV scale, SUSY 2010. Bonn, Germany. August
- Phases of gauge theories of fundamental interactions, Quark Matter Roma, Italy, July
- Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, PASCOS meeting, Valencia, Spain, July
- Strong Dynamics for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Particle Physics and Cosmology (PPC) meeting, Torino, Italy. July
- Conformal strong dynamics. Graz, Austria, June
- Discovering Technicolor, Oxford, Boost 2010, UK. June
- Novel strong dynamics for TeV Physics. ETH, Zurich. April
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