Lorenzo Iorio

Lorenzo Iorio was born in Bari, Italy, in 1971.

He received his precollege and college education there, obtaining a degree in physics from the University of Bari in 1997. In 2002, he earned the Ph.D. Degree in physics from the Department of Physics "Michelangelo Merlin", the University of Bari, where he also completed his postdoctoral studies. He currently holds a permanent position at the Italian Ministry of Education and Merit as a physics teacher in secondary schools since 2007. He is currently qualified at the Italian Ministry of University and Research (M.U.R.) both as an Associate Professor and Full Professor for Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Earth and Planetary Physics, and for Theoretical Physics of the Fundamental Interactions, respectively.

His research activity, started in 1999 after he published his first article in a peer-reviewed journal, is currently in the field of gravitational physics, in particular, experimental/observational tests of general relativity and modified models of gravity in several astronomical and astrophysical scenarios, and their theoretical interpretation. So far, he has published more than 270 articles in peer-reviewed journals. According to the SAO/NASA ADS database, his h-index is, at present, 44, with over 4750 citations (self-citations excluded).

He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Universe.