Nine new Fellow-Ambassadors at the CNRS
Meet the 9 Fellow-Ambassadors at the CNRS in 2025.
Physicist Vincenzo Vitelli appointed Fellow-Ambassador at the CNRS
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The CNRS 'Fellow-Ambassadors' programme has welcomed nine new prestigious figures from world research to serve the scientific community and help raise the organisation's profile. Among them is Vincenzo Vitelli, from the University of Chicago, whose work focuses on statistical physics, soft matter and active matter.
Vincenzo Vitelli is an internationally renowned theoretical physicist from the University of Chicago who works on statistical physics, soft matter and active matter. His research focuses on subjects at the interface between physical science, engineering and mathematics. Mr Vitelli takes a particularly interest in the use of sophisticated mathematical models to explain or suggest experiments. He has thus obtained important results in fields as diverse as metamaterials, information physics, liquid crystals, spin glasses and biophysics. His recent work includes studies on innovative materials, the hydrodynamics of complex matter, non-equilibrium systems and the mathematical modelling of biological systems and is of great interest to the French soft matter and active matter community. In 2024, he notably gave one of the prestigious Niels Bohr Lectures at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and is also a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.