the board of trustees at the IMDEA Energy Institute. In 2009–2010, he was Special Adviser for Energy to the Secretary General of ECLAC, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America, based in Santiago (Chile). In June 2010, Rubbia has been appointed Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam (Germany). He is a member of the Italy-USA Foundation. During his term as President of ENEA (1999–2005) he has promoted a novel method for concentrating solar power at high temperatures for energy production, known as the Archimede Project, which is being developed by industry for commercial use. Personal life Marisa and Carlo Rubbia have two children. Awards and honors In December 1984, Rubbia was nominated Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI. On 30 August 2013, Rubbia was appointed to the Senate of Italy as a Senator for Life by President Giorgio Napolitano. Asteroid 8398 Rubbia is named in his honor. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1984. In 1984, Rubbia received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement. References External links including the Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1984 Experimental Observation of the Intermediate Vector Bosons W+, W– and Z0 1934 births People associated with CERN Columbia University people Commanders of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland Experimental physicists Foreign Members of the Royal Society Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Harvard University faculty Italian Nobel laureates 20th-century Italian physicists Italian life senators Living people Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Nobel laureates in Physics Particle physicists People from Gorizia People from the Province of Gorizia University of Pisa alumni Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa alumni