Piero Martin is a professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Padua and conducts his research in the field of thermonuclear fusion. A member of the American Physical Society, he is Chief Physicist of DTT, Italy's new large-scale fusion experiment. He has been the lead scientist for major international research projects, such as the RFX experiment in Padua and the European Task Force "Eurofusion Medium Size Tokamak." Active in science communication, he writes for La Stampa and lavoce.info. He has published The Age of the Atom (with A. Viola, Il Mulino, 2014), Zerologia (with C. Bartocci and A. Tagliapietra, Il Mulino, 2016), and Trash: Everything You Need to Know About Waste (with A. Viola, Codice Edizioni, 2018; shortlisted for the 2018 Galileo Prize for Science Communication and winner of the National Science Communication Prize in the Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Sciences category). In Guadalmazán he has published The 7 Measures of the World (Laterza, 2021), translated into eight languages and a finalist for the 2022 Galileo Prize.
