ABOUT CONSTANTINO

Professor Constantino Tsallis is a distinguished physicist in the area of statistical mechanics, born in Athens, 5 November 1943, grew up in Mendoza-Argentina. He studied physics in the Instituto Balseiro, Bariloche. He obtained his title of Docteur d´ État ès Sciences Physiques from the University of Paris in 1974. He has worked in a variety of theoretical subjects in the areas of critical phenomena, chaos and nonlinear dynamics, economics, cognitive psychology, immunology, population evolution, among others. Since over three decades, he is focusing on the entropy and the foundations of statistical mechanics, as well as on some of their scientific and technological applications. Indeed, he proposed in 1988 a generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy and statistical mechanics.

This generalization is presently being actively studied around the world: a bibliography containing more than 9,600 directly related articles, by over 15,000 scientists from all over the world, is available at http://tsallis.cat.cbpf.br/biblio.htm Prof. Tsallis´ contributions have received 24,000 ISI-WebofScience citations (6,700 of them for his 1988 paper), which currently makes him one among the most cited scientists of all times in Latin America.

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Photo: Ana Paula Machado / “Jornal da UEM – (Universidade Estadual de Maringá)”

He has received many international and national distinctions (Guggenheim Foundation Award, Mexico Prize for Science and Technology, Rio de Janeiro Prize of Science and Technology, among many others), and has been given in four occasions the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by Universities from Argentina (Cordoba), Brazil (Maringa and Natal) and Greece (the Thessaloniki Aristotelian University). He was awarded the Aristion (Excellence) by the Academy of Athens, originally founded by Plato. He is member of the Academy of Sciences of Brazil, of the Academy of Economic, Political and Social Sciences of Brazil, and of the Academy of Sciences of Latin America. He is Honorary Editor of Physica A – Elsevier, and has supervised over 40 Doctor and Master Thesis. He has delivered Physics undergraduate and graduate regular courses in Brazil, France, USA, Argentina and Germany, as well as over 1,100 invited lectures around the world. In 2005 and 2006, he did basic research at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, where he co-authored several papers with Murray Gell-Mann. Prof. Tsallis is an External Faculty Fellow of the Santa Fe Institute, an External Faculty of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, and Professor of the Dottorato in Sistemi Complessi per le Scienze Fisiche, Socio-economiche e della Vita at the University of Catania.

He acted as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, in Rio de Janeiro (Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil), and founded the National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems of Brazil. [Updated 22 March 2023].