Gianfranco Bertone

Gianfranco Bertone is the founding director of the European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory, and a Professor of Theoretical Astroparticle Physics at the University of Amsterdam, where he investigates topics at the interface between Particle Physics and Cosmology. After a PhD at the University of Oxford and the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris, he has held teaching and research positions at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Padova and the University of Zurich, before going back to Paris as a permanent CNRS researcher. He joined in 2011 the new center of excellence in Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics of the University of Amsterdam. His first book "Behind the Scenes of the Universe" has won the "Ciel et Espace" prize in France for the best book in Astronomy. His second book "A tale of two infinities" won the Rhegium Julii prize for scientific non-fiction.