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Impact

Over the past 60 years, ICTP has welcomed more than 180,000 scientists from about 188 countries around the world. The Centre has made lasting impact on science throughout the globe, especially in disadvantaged countries, giving scientists there the opportunities and the connections to do good science.

More success stories about ICTP visitors and alumni are featured below.

Shafi Prize 2026 winner Nathasya Christien
2026 Shafi Prize Honours Top Diploma Student
Nathasya Christien of Indonesia plans to pursue a PhD in climate science
Earth System Physics
Kenneth Charles Showalter and students
Memorial Giving and Planned Support at ICTP
High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics
Mathematics
Earth System Physics
Quantitative Life Sciences
Science, Technology and Innovation
Dirac posters
Dirac Medalists Unite in Support of ICTP 2.0
Butterfly globe
One Challenge After Another: the Butterfly Effect continues
Trieste lighthouse
ICTP 2.0 Campaign Updates
Lighting the way
scientists at blackboard
ICTP: A Safe Harbour
How the Centre has assisted scientists at risk