Scientific council

PAOLA AVALLONE

Title: Research Director

Affiliation: CNR-ISMed

Specialization: Economic History

Profile:
Paola Avallone, PhD in Economic History, is Research Director of the CNR at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies (ISMed) where she also served as Acting Director from 2013 to 2015 and from 2019 to 2020.
She carries out teaching activities at the chair of Economic History of the Department of Economic Sciences and Statistics and the Higher Education Course in Ethical Finance of the Federico II University. You have carried out teaching activities at the Universities of Molise and Parthenope in Naples and at various local schools, teaching Corporate History, Economic History and Banking History. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Buenos Aires, the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Moldova and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
She is a member of the teaching staff of the doctoral course in "Mediterranean Studies. History, Law & Economics" at the Department of Law of LUMSA University.
She is the scientific director of numerous international and national projects and seminars. Among these are: responsible for the International Research Project Network of transnational relations (and cultural transfer) between Buda and Naples from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, within the bilateral agreement National Research Council and Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS); head of the research unit of the PRIN 2022 PNRR project WWS (Winds, Waves and Storms): historical data and modern quantitative approaches to uncover the long-term strategies to prevent and mitigate climate risks in the European seas (15th-19th centuries).

STEFANO GALLO

Title: Senior Researcher

Affiliation: CNR-ISMed

Specialization: social history of contemporary Italy, with experience in researching archival sources and documents ranging from the end of the 19th century to the 1980s

Profile:
Stefano Gallo deals with the social history of contemporary Italy, with experience in researching archival sources and documents ranging from the end of the 19th century to the 1980s. He has more than 100 research products to his credit, including books, articles, essays and reviews, and 50 participations in and organization of scientific conferences and seminars.
His main fields of research are the history of migration and the history of work. He teaches "History of migration in the contemporary age" at the Department of Civilization and Forms of Knowledge of the University of Pisa (specialist degree course in Contemporary History). His latest book is entitled "History of work in contemporary Italy" (il Mulino 2023, with Fabrizio Loreto).
He helped found the Italian Society of the History of Work, of which he was the first coordinating secretary until 2015 (storialavoro.it). Since 2021 he has been scientific director of the Franco Serantini Library - Historical Institute of the Resistance of the province of Pisa. He is also a member of the doctoral board of the Research Doctorate in Social and Political Change, an international and interdisciplinary Doctorate of excellence of the Universities of Turin and Florence.

TOMMASO ISMAELLI

Title: Senior Researcher

Affiliation: CNR-ISPC

Specialization: Classical archaeologist, specialized in archeology and architecture of the Greco-Roman world

Profile:
Tommaso Ismaelli is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences, in Florence.
Classical archaeologist, specialized in archeology and architecture of the Greco-Roman world. His research interests are aimed at public construction in the eastern Mediterranean and ancient Italy, through paths that go from surveying to the digital reconstruction of monuments. Insights concern the socio-economic dynamics of construction sites, the artistic culture and the technological knowledge of the social actors of construction. With innovative and multidisciplinary approaches, his research also concerns the archaeometry of building materials, the culture of architectural restoration in the ancient world, ritual practices and religious phenomena from Asia Minor to Sicily. He directs research on the architecture of republican and imperial Rome with the Basilica Iulia Project at the Roman Forum (since 2015) in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum and Sapienza University of Rome, and on Hellenism in southern Italy, with research on the Athenaion of Casto (Lecce, since 2009), in collaboration with the University of Salento and the SABAP Lecce-Brindisi Superintendency. Much of his research is aimed at the Hellenistic, imperial and late ancient architecture of Turkey, with research in Hierapolis of Phrygia (as part of the Italian Archaeological Mission) aimed at studying the main monuments of the city, and, more recently in Teos (in collaboration with Ankara University) for the reconstruction of the Temple of Dionysus. Since 2018, in Tripolis ad Maeandum (in collaboration with the University of Pamukkale - Denizli) he has coordinated the knowledge, study and anastylosis project of the Monumental Nymphaeum, with MAECI recognition.

ANDREA GIOVANNI NUZZOLESE

Title: Senior Researcher

Affiliation: CNR-ISTC

Specialization: methodologies and software architectures for the extraction of Knowledge Patterns from the Web

Profile:
Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sciences and Technologies of Cognition (ISTC) of the CNR where he is co-head of the Laboratory of Semantic Technologies. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2014 at the University of Bologna studying methodologies and software architectures for the extraction of Knowledge Patterns from the Web. His research interests include ontology design, linked data, the Semantic Web, knowledge extraction from heterogeneous formats, natural language understanding, and social and assistive robotics mediated by knowledge graphs. He participated as a researcher in the "Interactive Knowledge Stack" (IKS) project (IP EU FP7) and MARIO (EU H2020). He is currently scientific director for CNR-ISTC of the Water Health Open knoWledge project (WHOW - 2019-EU-IA-0089 EU CEF Telecom - Public Open Data) aimed at designing and implementing a framework to encourage the creation of a vast ecosystem of data on consumption and quality of water, health parameters and the spread of diseases. He is lead researcher for CNR-ISTC in the Hybrid Human Artificial Collective Intelligence in Open-Ended Domains project (HACID - 101070588 HORIZON-CL4-2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-10) aimed at developing a new hybrid collective intelligence system (natural- artificial) for decision-making support for professionals facing complex and open-ended problems, promoting commitment, fairness and trust. He is also responsible for research units and member of the executive board of the Fostering Open Science in Social Science Research project (FOSSR - MUR PNRR IR IR0000008) which aims to become the Italian Open Science Cloud in which to integrate the innovative services developed by the project for data collection, their management and the analysis of data on economic and social change, according to the principle of equity. He was principal investigator of the project "Measuring the Impact of Research: Alternative Indicators" (MIRA) funded by the National Agency for Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR) within the theme "Research evaluation methods" of the program " Research Ideas". He was scientific manager for ISTC-CNR of the collaboration agreement with the Digital Innovation Team of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers aimed at designing and implementing the Italian Public Administration ontology network known as OntoPiA. He has published more than 80 scientific works on ontology design, linked data, knowledge extraction, machine reading and sentiment analysis in international journals, conferences and workshops. He is a member of program committees of conferences and workshops on semantic web and ontology engineering. Furthermore, he is an area editor of the Journal of Web Semantics and serves as a reviewer for numerous international scientific journals in the domain of artificial intelligence and knowledge representation. He is co-founder of BUP Srl, an innovative start-up dedicated to the design and implementation of solutions for the creation and management of knowledge graphs.

ADRIANA VALENTE

Title: Research Director

Affiliation: CNR-ISPPS

Specialization: relationship between evidence and decision-making processes; education, science teaching and participation in scientific debate; science communication and the scientific community; representations of international migration

Profile:
Adriana Valente, jurist and sociologist, is a research director of the CNR-IRPPS, in the research group Social Studies on Science, Education, Communication (COMESE), whose main aim is the understanding and valorisation of the relationships between science, politics and society . Her research interests include: relationship between evidence and decision-making processes; education, science teaching and participation in scientific debate; science communication and the scientific community; representations of international migration and representations of migrants in textbooks and the media.
On these topics she wrote around two hundred scientific publications.
Adriana Valente has taught in various national universities and coordinated European research projects.