Professor elected to prestigious Italian academy
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Professor Ragupathy Venkatachalam has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Istituto Lombardo – Accademia di Scienze e Lettere.
Professor Ragupathy Venkatachalam becomes a Foreign Member of the Istituto Lombardo
Ragupathy Venkatachalam is Professor of Economics and his research focuses on the interface between computation and economics.
Istituto Lombardo is an Italian academy, founded in 1797, with its historical headquarters located at the Palazzo Brera in Milan. Past members include famous writers and scientists, including the physicist Alessandro Volta, and four Italian Nobel Prize winners: Camillo Golgi, Giosuè Carducci, Giulio Natta, and Eugenio Montale.
Foreign membership is an honorary academic distinction, which can be granted to scholars who are not of Italian nationality, and are nominated based on their work and their international reputation.
Professor Ragupathy Venkatachalam said, “I feel honoured and humbled to be elected as a foreign member of the Istituto Lombardo, a distinguished learned academy with a long tradition of fostering scholarship.”
This recognition is deeply meaningful and inspiring for me. It offers a valuable opportunity to further deepen intellectual connections and collaborations with colleagues in Italy and across Europe.
Professor Ragupathy Venkatachalam, School of Creative Management
Professor Ivano Cardinale, Head of School, Creative Management, said: “I am very happy about this prestigious recognition of Professor Venkatachalam’s work. It celebrates an imaginative and wide-ranging research programme that reframes a vast range of problems, theories and methods across social research and beyond.”