About Us

In line with FBK’s mission, which aims to produce results of scientific excellence and societal impact, the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*) in Trento (Italy) provides a dedicated and structured combination of scientific activities for a large international scientific community. ECT* acts as an intellectual center of competence, complementary in scope and activities to research facilities based at universities and laboratories. It promotes coordination of European research efforts in nuclear physics and related research areas.

The main ECT* activities are workshops, collaboration meetings, doctoral training programs, and specialized courses. We also host a vibrant research group and offer visiting fellowships for junior and senior researchers. The research focus at the center is nuclear physics in a broad sense (nuclear structure and reaction dynamics, nuclear astrophysics, Quantum Chromodynamics and hadron physics, strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions, and symmetries and fundamental interactions) as well as related areas, such as particle physics, astroparticle physics and cosmology, methods of quantum field theory, condensed-matter physics, the physics of ultra-cold atomic gases, nuclear physics tools, machine learning, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, experimental techniques and methods.

ECT* is sponsored by the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in collaboration with the Assessorato alla Cultura (Provincia Autonoma di Trento), funding agencies and research institutions of EU Member and Associated States. It also receives support from various instruments of the Framework Programmes of the European Commission.

ECT* is registered as an European Research Infrastructure, and it is an institutional member of  the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC), associated to the European Science Foundation.