Fabio Beltram is an Italian physicist, known for his work in condensed matter physics and nanoscience. He earned a degree in electronic engineering from the University of Trieste in 1985 and a degree in physics from the University of Bologna in 1988. Between 1986 and 1991 he worked as a researcher in the United States at AT&T Bell Laboratories, before joining the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in 1992, where he became full professor of condensed matter physics in 2000. In 2001 he founded the NEST Laboratory, an interdisciplinary research and training centre on nanoscience that today involves the Scuola Normale Superiore, the Italian National Research Council, the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. He served as deputy director of the Scuola Normale Superiore from 2005 to 2010 and as its director from 2010 to 2016, a period during which the institution absorbed the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane and expanded its doctoral offerings to include social and political sciences. Beltram is a fellow of the American Physical Society and has been decorated as Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana. His research spans nanoscience and nanotechnology, and he has authored around three hundred publications in international journals and patents. He currently serves as president of the Fondazione Pisana per la Scienza.