Alessio Guarino is an Italian physicist. He works on the domain of nonlinear physics such as liquid crystals, fracture, and granular matter. With Sergio Ciliberto and Riccardo Scorretti , he introduced a new numerical technique to study the effect of thermal fluctuations in heterogeneous systems . He is now with the University of French Polynesia in Tahiti. He was previously at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon [1].