Sandro Sozzo

I joined the University of Leicester in October 2013. I am Associate Professor at the School of Business. I am director of the Research Centre for Quantum Social and Cognitive Science (IQSCS), which has received financial and administrative support from the University of Leicester. In the periods July-September 2014, April and August 2015 I was visiting professor at the Free University of Brussels (VUB).
I am author or co-author of more than 80 contributions, including various articles in A1 high impact and top journals. I have organised conferences and a series of seminars, presented more than 40 communications, and have been invited to give lectures in the UK (Oxford), US, Canada, Europe and China. I am co-editor of the volume The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: Historical Analysis and Open Questions (World Scientific, 2006). In 2013 I was conferred an Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award by the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics for my research activities. In 2016 I also received a Superstar Award by the Students Union for my teaching. In March 2015 I was invited to contribute with a presentation in the event Quantum Probability and the Mathematical Modeling of Decision Making, financed by the prestigious ‘Fields Institute’ (University of Toronto), with special issue in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. I am guest editor of the research topic Quantum Structures in Cognitive and Social Science, which appeared in the journal Frontiers in Psychology in 2016. I am also guest editor of the special issue Quantum Probability and Contextuality in Psychology and Economics of the Journal of Mathematical Psychology.
I am managing editor of the Springer-Nature A1 journal Foundations of Science. I am reviewer for several A1 journals and official reviewer for the American Mathematical Society (AMS). I am secretary of the International Quantum Structures Association (IQSA). As a member of its executive committee, I also participate in the administrative and financial management of IQSA. Within the activities of IQSCS, I am co-organising the Biennial Conference on Quantum Structures, which will take place in Leicester, July 11-15, 2016, whose special issue will be published in the International Journal of Theoretical Physics.
In 2013 I co-organised the grant-based series of seminars Parallel Convergences on the mutual relationships between academic and industrial world. I participate as partner in the Consortium “QUARTZ” (Quantum information Access and Retrieval Theory), involving seven European universities, which has been recently funded by the EU Marie Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN).