Francesco Sannino (born 9 February 1968) is an Italian theoretical physicist and a professor at the University of Southern Denmark.

He also researches in beyond standard model physics and quantum field theory.

In 1997, he obtained a research fellowship from Yale University and in 2000 he moved to NORDITA.

In 2007 he has been a paid associate at CERN [1] while becoming full professor at the University of Southern Denmark.

[2] In 2010 he was awarded the EliteForsk Prize for researchers by the Danish Ministry of Science.