Giuseppe Bertin

In 2013, he was appointed corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei thanks to his notable contribution in understanding the dynamics in galaxies. In the same year he received the President of the Republic Award of the Accademia dei Lincei, from the then president Giorgio Napolitano at the Quirinale on June 24. He is the third professor in the Physics department of the University of Milan to receive the award, after Beppo Occhialini (in '49) and Piero Caldirola (in '56). He also received the Lions club's Two Towers Gold Award in 1991.

Bertin obtained a Laurea in physics, and subsequently a PhD at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. Giuseppe Bertin is full professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Milan and collaborator at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics. He is currently considered one of the most influential Italian theoretical astrophysicists on the territory. From '75 to '91 he was first a researcher and then an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was also a collaborator at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, and at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in Groningen. In the two-year period 2000-2002 he was a member, collaborator and consultant for ESO's observation programs. In the three-year period between 2006 and 2009 he became a member of the KAVLI Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently a member of the American Physical Society, the International Astronomical Union, the American Astronomical Society, and the New York Academy Sciences.

Giuseppe Bertin (born in Adria, 28 March 1952) is an Italian physicist, known for his work in the explanation of the spiral structure of galaxies, and in the use of these as cosmological probes and gravitational lenses. Bertin is currently Professor at the University of Milan. He won the Premio Presidente della Repubblica in 2013 for his contribute in the latest discoveries in the dynamics of galaxies.