About
Marco Sanchioni
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science · Vice Rector, Sophia University Institute · Founding Director, International Center for Transdisciplinary Studies
I am Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Sophia University Institute. My research delves into the foundations and philosophy of physics, with a particular focus on quantum gravity and black holes.
My academic journey began with a PhD in theoretical physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, where I explored higher-dimensional black holes within quantum gravity frameworks. I later pursued a second PhD in philosophy of physics, examining the philosophical dimensions of the black hole information paradox.
My contributions to these fields have been recognised with awards such as the Giulio Giorello Prize and the Graduate Student EPSA Prize.
Institutional roles
- Vice Rector
Sophia University Institute — since 2026 - Director, Doctoral School
Sophia University Institute — since 2026 - Director, ICTS — International Center for Transdisciplinary Studies
Sophia University Institute — founding director, May 2026 - Rector’s Delegate
Strategic Planning · Research, Chairs and Strategic Agreements · Site and Teaching-Infrastructure Planning — since 2025 - Director of Research & Director of the Post-Doctoral School
Sophia University Institute — since 2024 - Vice-President, Board of Directors
Fondazione per Sophia — since 2024 - Scientific Director, The AI Oath
International initiative for a professional oath on the design and deployment of AI, with Fadi Chehadé (former CEO, ICANN) — since 2023.
Research Lead and board member, The AI Oath Institute (California, 2026) - Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science
Sophia University Institute, Loppiano — since 2024 - Director, Pasquale Foresi Library
Sophia University Institute — 2023–2025
Awards
- EPSA Graduate Student Essay Prize — 2023
- Blaumann Foundation Call, foundations-of-physics projects — 2022
- Giulio Giorello Prize for the Philosophy of Science — 2021
- SISSA–UniTN Scholarship in theoretical physics — 2012
- Occhialini Scholarship — 2010
Grants & research funding
- ICTS founding programme
EUR 180,000 over three years, funded by Sophia University Institute and ASCES-UNITA — 2026–2029. Role: founding Director. - Porticus — Grant GR-077082
Post-Doctoral School, Sophia University Institute. EUR 380,000 over three years — 2024–2026. Role: Director of the Post-Doctoral School. - Blaumann Foundation
Winner of the Foundation’s first call for projects in the foundations of physics. EUR 10,000 — 2022.
Editorial boards & refereeing
- Editorial Board, Sophia: Research on Fundamentals and Correlation of Knowledge — since 2024
- Scientific Committee, Nuova Secondaria (philosophy and science) — since 2022
- Refereeing
European Journal for Philosophy of Science · Synthese · Foundations of Physics · Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · Philosophical Inquiries · Quantum Reports · Sophia
Memberships
- Società Italiana degli Storici della Fisica e dell’Astronomia (SISFA) — since 2025
- Philosophy of Physics Society — since 2024
- Società Nuovo SEFIR — since 2023
- Blaumann Foundation — fellow since 2022
- British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS) — since 2021
- European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) — since 2021
- Società Italiana di Logica e Filosofia delle Scienze (SILFS) — since 2021
Organisation of events
- XXIX Urbino Int. Summer School in Philosophy of Physics — History and Philosophy of the Wave Function, 15–19 June 2026. Co-organiser (with N. Covoni).
- Relational Quantum Mechanics and the Ontology of Physical Reality, international workshop, SILFS-sponsored, 2026. Co-organiser (with N. Covoni).
- XXVIII Int. Summer School in Philosophy of Physics — Epistemology of Quantum Gravity, Urbino, 2025. Co-organiser.
- XXVII Int. Summer School in Philosophy of Physics — Philosophy of Dark Energy, Urbino, 2024. Co-organiser.
- Intelligenza Artificiale — Verso un Digital Oath, Sophia University Institute, 2024. Coordinator of the Scientific Programme.
- XXVI Int. Summer School in Philosophy of Physics — Philosophy of Dark Matter, Urbino, 2023. Co-organiser.
- Blaumann Foundation Conference — Quantum Gravity with(out) Experiments, Urbino, 2023. Main organiser.
- XXV Int. Summer School in Philosophy of Physics — Dualities Between Physics and Philosophy, Urbino, 2022. Co-organiser.
- XXIV Int. Summer School in Philosophy of Physics — Black Holes and the Information Loss Paradox, Urbino, 2021. Co-organiser.
Doctoral supervision
- Since 2024
Lucia Salari · Andrea Galluzzi · Marianne Najm Abou-Jaoude (Sophia University Institute) - 2025–2026
Post-doctoral evaluation committee: A. Borghesi (Sophia University Institute)
Academic profiles
Languages
- Italian — native
- English — fluent (C1)
- Romanian — B1