Vincenzo Pierro

Vincenzo Pierro was born in Salerno (Italy),  July 28,1967. He received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in physics from the University of Salerno in 1990.

He has been an associate professor of Electromagnetic Fields at the University of Sannio (Italy) since 2001, where he has been an assistant professor since 1995. He has been a fellow researcher at the Italian Council of Research (CNR) and the COLUMBUS metrology team of the ESA-ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands). He has been a visiting scientist at the National Astronomical Observatory of Tokyo under the JSPS program of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He has been collaborating with the TAMA group for the interferometric detection of Gravitational Waves (2005-2006) and the international collaboration LIGO for the interferometric detection of gravitational waves (since 2007). Since 2012, he has been a member of the Japanese scientific collaboration KAGRA for the detection of gravitational waves (cryogenic interferometer).

Professor Pierro, from 2017 until now, has been a member of the INFN branch of Napoli and is the head of the INFN Sannio/Salerno unit of the VIRGO project (grant id. VIRGO-SA).
This VIRGO research unit is comprised of 14 researchers and is financed by the INFN.  ( see website for more information: https://www.sa.infn.it/ricerca/virgo.asp)

Prof Pierro is co-author of the first detection paper (event GW150914)  done by collaboration LIGO in which has been observed Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger. For this research (as a member of the LIGO discovery team), Prof. Pierro has been the recipient of three international awards.

In 2020 Prof. Pierro co-founded the Salerno group of INFN proposing the DARTWARS project.

In 2021, Professor Pierro is invited to join the editorial board of the journal "Applied Science" MPDI, in the section dedicated to Laser and Optics. For this journal, he is  guest editor of the special issue "Gravitational-Wave Observatory: The Realm of Applied Science"
 

In 2021, the site "Top Italian Scientist" includes Prof. Pierro in its ranking of the best 200 Italian astrophysicists in the first third of the list.

(see https://topitalianscientists.org/tis/52774/Vincenzo_Pierro_-_Top_Italia…)

Prof. Pierro is included in Stanford University's list of "World's Top 2%" scientists for the years 2021,2022, and 2024 in the Astronomy and Astrophysics area for his research in the field of gravitational wave detection.

Prof. Pierro's research interests span the areas of Applied Physics,  Electromagnetics, Electrodynamics,  Optics, Astrophysics, and Applied Mathematics also in the contest of fundamental Physics problems. He is a member of the Italian Physical Society (SIF).

Prof. Pierro is the author of more than 200 technical papers in the field of applied physics and is a regular referee of APS, IOP, IEEE, and OSA.

Prof. Pierro has been a referee of the ANVUR agency (the national Italian agency for the quality evaluation of research and universities) since 2020.

Membership and Scientific Association

• member of LIGO, VIRGO and KAGRA scientific experiments
• member of DARTWARS project (Salerno branch)
• member of INFN (sezione di Napoli gruppo collegato di Salerno)
• member of SIEM (Italian Society for Electromagnetism)
• member of TAMA experiment (1997-2004)
• member SIF (Italian Physical Society - intil 2010)

Editorial/Workshop activities

    Member Editorial Board di Quantum Beam Science MPDI section Quantum Optics (2022)

    Member dell'Editorial Board di Optics (Science Publishing Group )

    Member dell'Editorial Board di Applied Science MPDI settore Laser and Optics (2021)

    Member dell'Editorial Board di American Journal of Physics and Applications (2021)

    Guest editor : special issue "Gravitationa Wave Observatory: The Realm of Applied Science" (2021)

    Local organizing committee  and member del editorial board  of XVIII Riunione Nazionale di
    Elettromagnetismo (XVIII RiNEm) ,  Benevento.  (01-26) 05 2010.

    Organizing committee and the editorial board of  Workshop "Applicazioni Industriali delle Microonde: LaRicerca in Italia" Benevento (IT), Auditorium S. Domenico, 23-24 Aprile      2001dal 23-04-2001 al 24-04-2001

    Organizing committee for the "International Workshop on Gravitational Wave Signal Analysis and Processing” (Amalfi,  IT, 1989).

International awards

• 2016 Gruber Cosmology Prize 

• 2016 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 

• 2017 Einstein Medal 

• 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research

• 2021 IEEE Milestone LIGO-Virgo (significant technical achievements in the area associated with IEEE) https://italy.ieeer8.org/ieee-milestone-ligo-virgo/

Honors

    1)  Front cover for the paper published by DARTWARS project people (IEEE Trans. on Applied Supercond. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2022.3214656)

    2) Top 2% of the world's most-cited authors in 2021,22, and 2024 ( see Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators      https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4)

    3) Ranked 52 among the best 200 Italian Scientists in Astrophysics (GW astronomy)

       (see Top Italian Scientist https://topitalianscientists.org/tis/52774/Vincenzo_Pierro_-_Top_Italia…)

    4) Top-ranked in the VQR 2004-2010 , VQR 2011-2014 and VQR 2015-2019 (Italian ministry of university and scientific research)

    5) Full professor habilitation ASN2012 (SSD ING-INF/02)  and  ASN2016 (SSD ING-INF/02)

  
Google scholar profile

https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=80kLutcAAAAJ

Orcid profile

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6020-5521

INFN Virgo Sannio/Salerno group

https://www.sa.infn.it/ricerca/virgo.asp