Pisa University System



The Pisa University System (Sistema Universitario Pisano) is a network of higher education institutions in Pisa, Italy. The following three schools and universities belong to the system:


 * Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
 * Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
 * University of Pisa

International rankings
According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, Italy Rankings:


 * The Academic Ranking of World Universities puts Pisa University System at the first place in Italy (National Rank # 1) and within the best 30 universities in Europe.
 * As part of the Pisa University System, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies has also been mapped by Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings as one of the most important educational institutions in Italy (section on Italy i.e. Top universities and specialisms ), having its Graduate/Postgraduate Profile.
 * Also, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies together with Scuola Normale Superiore are named as leading institutions in
 * According to QS World University Rankings, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies is part of the initiative Invest Your Talent in Italy which puts Italian graduate programmes on the world's stage.
 * The European Research Ranking, a ranking based on publicly available data from the European Commission database puts Pisa University System among the best in Italy and best performing European research institutions.
 * La Voce, published a ranking of Italian universities by h-index, where Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies acquires the first (#1) place in Italy.

Notable alumni and faculty
I. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa


 * Enrico Fermi, physicist and Nobel prize winner
 * Carlo Rubbia, physicist and Nobel prize winner
 * Giosuè Carducci, poet and Nobel prize winner
 * Luigi Bianchi, mathematician
 * Lamberto Cesari, mathematician
 * Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, former Governor of the Banca d'Italia, former Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the Italian Republic
 * Massimo D'Alema (withdrew), politician, former Italian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
 * Guido Fubini, mathematician
 * Giovanni Gentile, philosopher and politician
 * Carlo Ginzburg, historian
 * Ennio De Giorgi, mathematician, solved the 19th Hilbert problem, won Wolf Prize (1990)
 * Giovanni Gronchi, former President of the Republic of Italy
 * Fabio Mussi (withdrew), former Italian Minister of the University
 * Leonida Tonelli, mathematician
 * Vito Volterra, mathematician
 * Giancarlo Wick, physicist
 * Riccardo Barbieri, physicist
 * Riccardo Rattazzi, physicist
 * Jiyuan Yu, philosopher

'''II. Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies'''


 * Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister of Italy, Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution
 * Antonio Cassese, first President of the International Criminal Tribunal For the Former Yugoslavia
 * Sabino Cassese, Professor of Administrative Law and a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy
 * Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, former president of Finmeccanica
 * Enrico Letta, Italian Chamber of Deputies, Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party (Italy), former Prime Minister of Italy
 * Antonio Maccanico, Minister in the Italian Republic
 * Marcello Spatafora, President of the United Nations Security Council in 2007
 * Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and writer
 * Vittorio Grilli, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (government of Mario Monti)
 * Giovanni Dosi, economist, co-director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, editor of the Oxford University Press Journal
 * Stefan Collignon, professor of political economy
 * Giorgio Buttazzo, Professor at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

'''III. University of Pisa'''


 * Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.
 * Enrico Fermi, physicist, 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity
 * Enrico Fermi, physicist, 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * Carlo Rubbia, particle physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer
 * Francesco Accarigi, professor of civil law
 * Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister of Italy, studied at the Collegio Medico-Giuridico of the Scuola Normale Superiore
 * Andrea Bocelli, tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist
 * Andrea Camilleri, writer (ad honorem)
 * Giosuè Carducci, poet, 1906 Nobel Prize in Literature
 * Bonaventura Cavalieri, mathematician, known for his work on the problems of optics and motion
 * Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 73rd former Prime Minister of Italy, tenth President of the Italian Republic
 * Pope Clement XII
 * Massimo D'Alema, former 77th Prime Minister
 * Giovanni Gentile, minister and neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher
 * Giovanni Gronchi, former President of the Italian Republic
 * Girolamo Maggi, 16th century scholar
 * Guido Fubini, mathematician
 * Mario Monicelli, movie director
 * Alessandro Natta, former secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI)
 * René Préval, President of Haiti
 * Carlo Sforza, President of the Italian National Consult, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
 * Adriano Sofri, writer
 * Tiziano Terzani, journalist and writer
 * Elio Toaff, former Chief Rabbi of Rome
 * Andrea Vaccá Berlinghieri, 19th century surgeon
 * Vito Volterra, mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
 * François Carlo Antommarchi, Napoleon's physician from 1818 to his death in 1821.
 * Stefano Arduini, scholar of linguistics, rhetoric, semiotics and translation
 * Adolfo Bartoli, physicist, known for introducing the concept of radiation pressure from thermodynamical considerations
 * Enrico Betti, mathematician, known for his 1871 paper on topology that led to the later naming after him of the Betti numbers
 * Luciano Bianciardi, journalist, translator and writer of short stories and novels
 * Emilio Bizzi, neuroscientist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Sandro Bondi, politician, Culture Minister in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth cabinet
 * Cesare Borgia, Duke of Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafro
 * Philippe Buonarroti, 18th century egalitarian and utopian socialist, revolutionary, journalist, writer, agitator, and freemason
 * Piero Calamandrei, author, jurist, soldier, university professor and politician
 * Francesco Cappè, United Nations official, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
 * Adán Cárdenas, President of Nicaragua between 1 March 1883 and 1 March 1887.
 * Antonio Cassese, jurist who specialized in public international law, President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
 * Sabino Cassese, Professor of Administrative Law and a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy
 * Benedetto Castelli, mathematician
 * Carlo Chiti, Italian racing car and engine designer, best known for his long association with Alfa Romeo's racing department
 * Mauro Cristofani, linguist and researcher in Etruscan studies
 * Luigi Fantappiè, mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and for creating the theory of analytic functionals
 * Lando Ferretti, journalist, politician and sports administrator
 * Clara Franzini-Armstrong, FMRS an American electron microscopist, and Professor Emeritus at University of Pennsylvania.
 * Luca Gammaitoni, scientist in the area of noise and nonlinear dynamics
 * David Levi (Italy), Italian-Jewish poet and patriot
 * Lorenzo Magalotti, philosopher, author, diplomat and poet
 * Paolo Malanima, Italian economic historian
 * Alessandro Natta, politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from 1984 to 1988
 * Jože Pirjevec, Slovene historian from Italy, diplomatic historian of the west Balkans region, member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
 * Francesco Redi, 17th century physician, naturalist, and poet
 * Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Roman Catholic archbishop in the mid seventeenth century
 * Luigi Rizzi (linguist), linguist
 * Giovanni Salvemini, FRS, 18th century mathematician and astronomer
 * Atto Tigri, 19th century anatomist