Leticia Fernanda Cugliandolo (born 1965) is an Argentine condensed matter physicist known for her research on

non-equilibrium thermodynamics Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is a branch of thermodynamics that deals with physical systems that are not in thermodynamic equilibrium but can be described in terms of macroscopic quantities (non-equilibrium state variables) that represent an ext ...

spin glass In condensed matter physics, a spin glass is a magnetic state characterized by randomness, besides cooperative behavior in freezing of spins at a temperature called 'freezing temperature' ''Tf''. In ferromagnetic solids, component atoms' magne ...

, and glassy systems. She works in France as a professor of physics at the

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. The Cugliandolo–Kurchan equations, two

integro-differential equation In mathematics, an integro-differential equation is an equation that involves both integrals and derivatives of a function. General first order linear equations The general first-order, linear (only with respect to the term involving derivati ...

s describing the behavior of spin glass, are named for her and her coauthor , another Argentine physicist, after their studies of these equations.

Education and career

Cugliandolo is originally from Mar del Plata. She earned a degree in physics from the National University of Mar del Plata in 1988, and completed a doctorate at the

National University of La Plata The La Plata National University ( es, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, UNLP) is one of the most important Argentine national universities and the biggest one situated in the city of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province. It has over 90 ...

in 1991, under the supervision of Fidel A. Schaposnik. She earned a habilitation at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 2000. After completing her doctorate, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the National University of La Plata,

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, and Pierre and Marie Curie University, before becoming a researcher for the

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(CNRS) in 1996, associated with the laboratory for theoretical physics of the

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. She became an associate professor at the École normale supérieure in 1997, returned briefly to the CNRS in 2002, and in the same year visited

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as a

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. In 2003 she became a full professor with Pierre and Marie Curie University. She was also director of the

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from 2007 to 2017, and worked half-time for the CNRS from 2009 to 2014. In 2018, Pierre and Marie Curie University merged with several other institutions to become

, where she continues as a full professor.

Recognition

Cugliandolo has been a member of the

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for three terms, 2004–2009, 2014–2019, and 2019–2024. She won the Prix Paul Langevin in 2002, and in the same year won the Marie Curie award of the

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. She won the

Irène Joliot-Curie Prize The Irène Joliot-Curie Prize is a French prize for women in science and technology, founded in 2001. It is awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, the Airbus Group corporate foundation, the French Academy of Scien ...

for female scientist of the year in 2015.

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