Prof. Giorgio Parisi was born in Rome, in August 4th,1948. Under the supervision of Prof. NicolaCabbibo, he graduated from La Sapienza University in 1970. He worked as outstanding researcher atLaboratori Nazionali di Frascati (1971-1981), at the Columbia University, New York (1973-1974), at the Institute des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (1976-1977) and at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (1977-1978). After that period, he became full professor at University of Rome in 1981, being full professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Roma II, Tor Vergata (1981-1992). Nowadays he is full Professor at the department of Physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza.

Giorgio has widely contributed to many different fields as in the elementary particles field, non-equilibrium statistical physics, theory of phase transitions and statistical mechanics, mathematical physics and string theory, disordered systems (spin glasses and complex systems), supercomputers and very large-scale simulations of QCD (the APE project), neural networks or theoretical immunology. He has collaborated with hundreds of researchers around the whole world and has written hundreds of scientific articles as well as given many inspiring conferences and priceless seminars.