Sergio Focardi

Sergio Focardi (1932 – 22 June 2013) was an Italian physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Bologna.^[1][2][3] He led the Department of Bologna of the (Italian) National Institute for Nuclear Physics^[4][5] and the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences at the University of Bologna.^[6][7]

In the early 1960s Focardi spent time at CERN^[8] in Geneva.

He was a member of the President's Board of the Italian Physical Society.^[9] From 1992 he had been working on cold fusion with nickel-hydrogen reactors.^[10] From 2007 until his death, Focardi collaborated with inventor Andrea Rossi on the development of the Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat).^{[11][12][13][14]}