Simonetta Liuti

Simonetta Liuti is an Italian theoretical nuclear physicist whose research aims at understanding the internal structure of nucleons (protons and neutrons). She is a research professor of theoretical nuclear and particle physics at the University of Virginia.

Education and career Liuti received a laurea (then the Italian equivalent of a master's degree) at the University of Perugia in 1984. She went on to a doctorate at Sapienza University of Rome in 1989, supervised by Claudio Ciofi degli Atti.

She worked at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, first as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a staff scientist, from 1989 until 2001. In 2001 she moved to her present position as a research professor at the University of Virginia.

Recognition Liuti was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2024, after a nomination from the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics, "for advances in studying the three-dimensional quark and gluon structure of nucleons and nuclei through polarization observables in deeply virtual exclusive scattering and physics-informed deep learning architectures, and for significant service to the physics community, particularly the support and mentoring of female and other underrepresented scientists".

Personal life Liuti was married to Vietnamese physicist P. Q. Hung (1950–2024), also a professor at the University of Virginia; they had three children.