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Pisa University System

The Pisa University System (Italian: Sistema Universitario Pisano) is a network of higher education institutions in Pisa, Italy. The following three schools and universities belong to the system:^[1]

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

According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities,^[2] 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.^[3]
• 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 ),^[4][5] having its Graduate/Postgraduate Profile.^[6]
• Also, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies together with Scuola Normale Superiore are named as leading institutions in ^[7]
• According to QS World University Rankings, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies is part of the initiative Invest Your Talent in Italy^[8] which puts Italian graduate programmes on the world's stage.^[9]
• 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.^[10]
• 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.^[11]

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)^[12]
• Giovanni Dosi, economist, co-director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, editor of the Oxford University Press Journal^[13]
• Stefan Collignon, professor of political economy
• Giorgio Buttazzo, Professor at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies^[14]

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^[15]
• Enrico Fermi, physicist, 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics^[15]
• 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.^[16][17]
• 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 MinisterinSilvio Berlusconi's fourth cabinet
• Cesare Borgia, Duke of Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafro^[18][19]
• 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)^[20]
• Adán Cárdenas, PresidentofNicaragua between 1 March 1883 and 1 March 1887.^[21]
• 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,^[22] and Professor Emeritus at University of Pennsylvania.^[23][24]
• 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

• Official website

• List of Italian universities