**Francesco Longo**

Prof. Francesco Longo is an Associate professor in Experimental Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Trieste. He is currently the coordinator of the Physics PhD program at the University of Trieste. He is a research associate at the Trieste section of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). His scientific interests span from high-energy astrophysical phenomena in the solar system to Gamma Ray Bursts. He graduated in 1998 with a thesis on the possible correlation of GRB with Gravitational wave events and obtained his PhD degree in 2002 with a thesis on the search for Quantum Gravity using GRB data. He is currently involved in space and ground-based gamma ray experiments.
