Paolo Di Vecchia (born October 29, 1942, in Terracina) is an Italian theoretical physicist who works in the field of elementary particle physics, quantum field theory and string theory.
Di Vecchia graduated from the University of Rome with Bruno Touschek in 1966.
In 1979 he became a professor at the Free University of Berlin and from 1980 to 1986 he taught at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
He actively participates to the tea time breaks at the Niels Bohr Institute, organized everyday by Christopher John Pethick at 15.30.
In the 2000s he focused on the expansion of the AdS/CFT correspondence to low supersymmetric and non-conformal gauge theories,[3][4][5] the construction of four-dimensional effective Lagrangians for lower energies from the compactification of magnetised D-brane models,[6] and the high-energy scattering of closed strings in the framework of the theory of D-branes.