Pier Luigi Luisi (born 23 May 1938) is an Italian chemist and academic. He received the "professor emeritus" title from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ). He worked there as a scientist from 1970 until 2003, and as a Professor of Chemistry from 1980 until he departed. Luisi then moved to the Roma Tre University as a Professor of Biochemistry, where he worked until 2015. In 1985, Luisi founded the Cortona Week, an international summer school. Personal life Pier Luigi Luisi was born on 23 May 1938. He is now a retired professor and lives in Tavira, Portugal. Education Luisi graduated with a chemistry degree from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Books The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (with Fritjof Capra) Cambridge University Press, 2014, translated in several languages. The Italian edition was published by Aboca, 2014, under the title Vita e Natura - Una visione sistemica. The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology Cambridge University Press, second edition 2016 Giant Vesicles (Perspectives in Supramolecular Chemistry) (with Peter Walde) Mind and life: discussions with the Dalai Lama on the nature of reality, Columbia University Press, 2009, , References External links Pier Luigi Luisi on Lifeboat Foundation Pier Luigi Luisi on Meer.com Pier Luigi Luisi on Meer.com Pier Luigi Luisi on Meer.com 1938 births Living people Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa alumni Swiss chemists Synthetic biologists Academic staff of Roma Tre University