Luca Salasnich

Luca Salasnich (born in 1967) is an Italian theoretical physicist and full professor of theoretical physics of matter at the University of Padua. His research concerns quantum many-body systems, with a focus on ultracold atoms, superfluidity, and macroscopic quantum phenomena.

Education and career Salasnich was born in Padua, Italy. He obtained a master's degree in physics from the University of Padua in 1991 and a PhD in physics from the University of Florence in 1995.

In 2003, he joined the National Research Council (CNR) as a researcher at the National Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM).

Honors and awards Salasnich was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2025 "for a broad range of theoretical contributions in ultracold atom physics, including analytical solutions to many-body equations, the physics of reduced dimensionality and curved configurations, and the analysis of collective modes, solitons, and quantized vortices". From 2024 he is an ordinary member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Books

Quantum Physics of Light and Matter. A Modern Introduction to Photons, Atoms and Many-Body Systems (Springer, 2014) Physics and Technologies of Ultracold Atomic Gases (Springer, 2024) with Roberto Onofrio Quantum Many Body Theory. A Path Integral Approach (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 2026)