Stefano Gandolfi

Stefano Gandolfi is a staff scientist working in the theoretical division of Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 2007, he obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Trento, Italy, where he received an award for the best Ph.D thesis of the year. He then became a postdoctoral fellow at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, before moving to Los Alamos in 2009. In 2013, he received the Young Scientist Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). His research focuses on nuclear interactions, nuclear structure, electroweak interactions in nuclei and dense matter, physics of neutron stars, and strongly correlated ultracold Fermi gases.