Francesco Pegoraro studied physics at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa Italy, and graduated in physics in November 1970.He received his advanced degree doctorate) in physics in June 1974 from the Scuola Normale Superiore with a thesis in General Relativity.He began his research activity in plasma physics in 1974-76 in Prof. B. Coppi’s group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston USA.He returned to Italy in the fall of 1976 and became first assistant and then, in 1983,associate professor in plasma physics at the Scuola Normale Superiore.He served for two years, from September 1987 to November 1989, as Group Leader in the theoretical division of the Joint European Torus (JET) magnetic fusion experiment at Culham (Oxford, UK).

In 1990 he was called as full professor of theoretical physics at the University of Turin. In N1996 he was called as full professor of plasma physics at the University of Pisa where he served until 2017 (retirement).In 2022 he was appointed Professor Emeritus at the Dept. of Physics, University of Pisa.In 2008 he was made a Corresponding Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and in 2021 a National Member, participating in several activities of the Academy including the Energy and the Research Commissions’. Pegoraro’s research