Francesco Ronga is research director at the INFN Labs of Frascati, is an experimental physicist. He worked at the storage rings ADONE at Frascati and PEP at Stanford, giving a contribution to the discovery of the J/PSI particle. He has been responsible of the data acquisition and of the analysis on the atmospheric neutrinos in the MACRO experiment at the Gran Sasso. He has worked also in the field of the detection of gravitational waves, where the effects of the cosmic rays on the resonant bars has been detected. He has been president of the National Scientific Commision II of the INFN and he is the author of about 300 publications on international journals.