The Institute for Computational Applications ‘M. Picone’ (IAC), founded in 1927, is the oldest research centre of the CNR in Italy, and consists of a main office in Rome and three other offices in Bari, Florence and Naples. The mission of the IAC-CNR is the development of mathematical, statistical and computational models and methods with a high innovative impact in an interdisciplinary context, applied to relevant problems in science, society and industry.
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Gabriella Bretti, OU Head
PhD, researcher at CNR, head of UO IAC-NA for Ehris. Her main research topics include modelling and numerics for non-linear PDEs, flows in heterogeneous media, mathematical models of chemical damage to monuments and consolidation of stone materials, in an interdisciplinary field. Her experience in Cultural Heritage (BBCC) consists in the development of predictive degradation simulation algorithms based on mathematical models and their calibration and validation with experimental data. Since 2018, she is/was involved in national and regional projects for the development of predictive mathematical models for BBCC conservation: ADAMO and SISMI (DTC Lazio) and Pomerium (ESA). She was the scientific leader and organiser of the Indam workshop MACH2021 (Mathematical modelling and Analysis of degradation and restoration in Cultural Heritage) and will be in the scientific committee and organiser of MACH2023.
Massimo Bernaschi, OU Head
Massimo Bernaschi graduated in Physics while working on the development of INFN’s APE computer. He worked for 10 years at IBM’s European Center for Scientific and Engineering Computing. He has received two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards from IBM. Since 1998, he has been a Senior Technologist at the Institute for Computing Applications of the C.N.R.. He was a member until the end of 2021 of the Technical Committee of Experts of the Ministry of Economy and Finance where he was responsible for the development of the System for the Analysis of Portfolios of Public Debt Issuance. He acts as security advisor and auditor for private and public organisations including the United Nations. He has been Principal Investigator of European projects, mainly in the field of cybersecurity. He is a consultant for major Italian prosecutors and courts. He is a delegate at the European Defence Agency for CapTech ‘Communication, Information Systems and Networks’. He has developed open source software packages such as REMUS, OpenCapwap, SockMi, BitCracker. In recent years, he has been very active in the programming of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). In 2012, he received the title of CUDA Fellow from Nvidia for his achievements in this field. He was part of the Ministry of Innovation’s task force for data management during the COVID-19 emergency. Since 2022 he has been Vice President of the GARR Consortium.
The Institute for High Performance Computing and Networks belongs to the Department of Engineering, ICT and Technologies for Energy and Transport (DIITET) and is present in Italy with three locations, Rende, Naples and Palermo. Its mission is to develop research, technology transfer and higher education in the area of intelligent systems with complex functionality (cognitive systems and robotics, knowledge representation, extraction and management, human-machine interaction, optimisation) and high-performance systems (cloud computing, parallel and distributed environments, advanced technologies for the Internet). The Institute develops significant applications in the fields of e-health, energy, security, bioinformatics, cultural heritage and smart cities.
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Massimo Esposito, OU Head
PhD in Computer Science and First Researcher at ICAR. Since 2012 he has been Adjunct Professor of Elements of Computer Science at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Naples Federico II. He is currently Head of the Research Group ‘Language and Knowledge Engineering’ at ICAR. His current research interests include Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing and focus on algorithms and hybrid techniques, combining deep learning and knowledge-based technologies, for the construction of intelligent systems capable of dialoguing, understanding questions and text expressed in natural language, and answering questions from structured or document sources. He is the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in international journals and conference proceedings. He has been involved in several national and European projects, has been on the programme committee of numerous international conferences and workshops and is also a member of the editorial board of several international journals, including Artificial Intelligence Review, Discover Artificial Intelligence and Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
Alessandro Ferrera, OU Administrative
Degree in Economics. Statutory auditor. Ten years’ experience in auditing and business consulting firms. Since 2012 administration officer at ICAR-CNR Palermo office.
The Institute of Computational Linguistics ‘A. Zampolli’ (ILC) has an established position as a leading reference centre in the field of Computational Linguistics and Language Resources and Infrastructures both nationally and internationally. The Institute boasts a dense network of cooperation with research institutes, universities and public bodies, as well as with companies involved in numerous European, national and regional research projects. Today, ILC coordinates the national node of the CLARIN ERIC research infrastructure, the European Language Resources Infrastructure and the Italian CLARIN-IT consortium (led by Monica Monachini) and hosts its main data centre, ILC4CLARIN, with the certified repository. In this capacity, ILC is also involved in major H2020 infrastructure projects, such as SSHOC, TRIPLE, ELEXIS. ILC staff contribute to the activities of the EOSC, participating in three of its task forces. Francesca Frontini, ILC researcher, is currently a member of the Board of Directors of CLARIN ERIC.
ILC has in-depth expertise in Open Science and FAIRfication of language data and assists researchers in the life cycle of language resources. These activities are also linked to the Institute’s strong involvement in national and international standardisation bodies, such as UNI (Italy), ISO and W3C.
WPs: 2, 8
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Monica Monachini, WP2 Leader and OU Head
Monica Monachini (F), Research Director, CNR-ILC. Head of the LaRI Linguistic Resources and Infrastructures group. She is the national coordinator of CLARIN-IT, the Italian node of the European Research Infrastructure CLARIN-ERIC. Her research interests include: corpus linguistics; lexicology and computational lexicography; lexical semantics; language resources for automatic language analysis tasks; lexicons, ontologies and terminologies; metadata, standards, models and formats for publishing language data as open data. She represents the CNR on the Terminology Committee in UNI; she is a UNI delegate in the ISO TC37 SC4 Language Resources Management Committee. She has published over 150 articles in journals, books and conferences at international level and organised events of scientific interest. She has participated and participates in numerous national and international infrastructure initiatives; in particular, the SSHOC cluster project, ESFRI SSH sector, within the European Open Science Cloud; the TRIPLE project and the ELEXIS project. She conducts training activities through the responsibility of assignees and PhD students; she is a member of the Humanism and Technology Doctoral College at the University of Macerata. She is a member for IL DSU of the Scientific Committee of the CNR ILC Venice site at Ca’ Foscari.
Antonella Gadducci, OU Administrative
Francesca Frontini, WP8 Leader
Francesca Frontini obtained her PhD at the University of Pavia with a thesis on corpus linguistics. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Computational Linguistics in Pisa (ILC-CNR), collaborating in several European projects in the field of computational lexicography and natural language processing. She was then Associate Professor at the Université Paul-Valéry & CNRS in Montpellier. Today, she is a Research Scientist at ILC-CNR and a member of the BoD of the European CLARIN ERIC infrastructure, as well as an ISO expert. Her research interests concern language resources, named entity recognition and textual analysis, and the representation of linguistic knowledge. In addition, she has published numerous works on topics related to the documentation, preservation and standardisation of language resources.
Valeria Quochi, Tasks 2-1, 2-2 Head
Valeria Quochi has been a permanent researcher at the Institute of Computational Linguistics ‘A. Zampolli’ of the National Research Council in Pisa since 2014. Her research activities focus on two main lines: the creation, annotation and standardisation of linguistic resources on the one hand; the creation and enrichment of research infrastructures and community building initiatives on the other. Certain of their potential to effectively enhance interdisciplinary and cross-border research collaboration in all fields of SSH, it strongly supports digital research infrastructures and has been actively involved in the pan-European Common LAanguage and technology Research INfrastructure (CLARIN) since its preparatory phase. It is currently involved in the ParlaMint project, an international initiative supported by CLARIN-ERIC for the creation of a linguistically annotated multilingual corpus of transcripts of parliamentary debates in times of emergency. In parallel, she contributes to the ELEXIS project, in which she leads the annotation and post-editing efforts for the production of Italian datasets to be used for training and testing the word-alignment and word sense disambiguation deep learning systems developed within the dedicated work-package. Since 2020, she has been leading the CNR-ILC team within a Project of National Interest on the languages and cultures of ancient Italy. The main objective of the team is to develop new digital solutions to support historical linguists in the creation, querying and exploration of interconnected digital materials (LLOD) on ancient and highly fragmentary languages, such as the languages of Italy before Romanisation.
Paola Baroni, Financial Accountability Officer
Paola Baroni is a Technologist at the CNR-ILC. She has expertise in: project planning and management; Web design, development and management; dissemination in projects and infrastructures related to standards, language resources and lexicography. Since 1998, she has been involved in a large number of: national and international research projects (including the CLARIN preparatory phase project and, among the most recent ones, SM@RTINFRA-SSHCH, PARTHENOS, DLDP, Archivio Vi.Vo., ELEXIS, SSHOC, TRIPLE, Italia Antica, GreekSchools and Skills4EOSC); committees (ISO/TC 37, UNI/CT 014); working groups (ISO/TC 37/SC 4/WG 4, UNI/CT 014/GL 04); infrastructures (including CLARIN-IT, the Italian node of CLARIN – ESFRI Landmarks SSH RI). Since 2005 she acts as an interface between UNI and ISO for the voting of ISO documents related to Lexical Resources and Terminology. Since 2014 she has been a member of the Project Support Office of the CNR-ILC, within which he is responsible for community planning and relations with national reference bodies for EU funding programmes. Since 2015 she has been a member of the CLARIN-IT National Coordination Group, in charge of CLARIN-IT membership procedures and responsible for the management of web, communication, promotion and dissemination activities within the CLARIN-IT National Consortium, CLARIN Centre-B ‘ILC4CLARIN’ and CLARIN Centre-K ‘DiPText-KC’. Since 2019, she has been the CNR-ILC Privacy Contact Person for relations with the CNR Data Protection Officer and the CNR General Management.
The Institute for European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (ILIESI), based in Rome, has been dealing with the history of cultural and scientific terminology since 1970, focusing on the phenomenon of cultural migrations, which accompanies the entire history of civilisations. Currently, the Institute’s activities are developed along three main research lines – the history of ideas, lexical analysis of texts and digital humanities. Current lines of research embrace the history of European cultural terminology in connection with the Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic traditions, the history of ideas, and ICT methods for textual analysis.
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Enrico Pasini, OU Head
Director of ILIESI, Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Turin, national OPERAS node coordinator. His academic activities mainly concern the history of modern philosophy, the history of Renaissance thought, the history of science and scientific thought. He carries out research activities in the field of the application of Distant Reading and Data-driven methodologies in the use of corpora and datasets related to the philosophy and history of ideas of early modernity; of the use of traditional and digital humanities tools in the reconstruction of the intellectual network of G.W. Leibniz; of the application of computer methods to the study of the history of ideas.
Marta Caradonna, OU Contact Person
Technologist at ILIESI-CNR since 2014. From 2005 to 2014 in service at the CNR Directorate General, Office “Activities and Relations with European Institutions”, where she was in charge of the European Framework Programmes from FP7 onwards. Member of the CNR – ERC Task Force (2006-2014). Member of the CNR END Task Force (2012-2014) and Focal Point for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Responsible for EURAXESS network activities for the CNR (2012-2014). Member of the Management Board of the COFUND Project “Best Action for National Development of International Expert Researchers Activities – BANDIERA”, Grant Agreement CE-REA n. 600407 (2013-2014). Contact person for general relations with the European Science Foundation (ESF): EUROCORES, Forward looks, Exploratory workshops, MO Fora. On secondment to the Humanities Office of the ESF in Strasbourg (2008) selected for the ESF’s international call for proposals entitled “Quality Assurance in Peer Review and programme Management in the Humanities”. PhD in Historical and Social Anthropology (EHESS, Paris) and in Ethnology and Ethno-anthropology (Sapienza, Rome). From 2005 to 2010 she taught Anthropology at the IUAV University of Venice. https://publications.cnr.it/authors/marta.caradonna
Cristina Marras, OU Contact Person
Director of Research at CNR LIESI, she accompanies her research in philosophy, philosophy of language and digital humanities with activities to enhance interdisciplinary dialogue. She has extensive experience in the management of research platforms and infrastructures, in particular, she explores the different languages and technologies that foster the sharing of methods, practices and research results. She is currently the scientific leader of the institute project ‘Digital infrastructures and tools for humanities and history of ideas research’ (DUS.AD004.015); she was co-PI of the project Modelling between Digital and Humanities: Thinking in Practice, funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung. From 2010 to 2011 she worked as “science officer” at the European Science Foundation, peer review and research evaluation and quality assessment unit; from 2018 to 2021 she taught “Digital Humanities for Philosophy” at Sapienza University of Rome. Updated list of publications: https://publications.cnr.it/authors/cristina.marras
Ada Russo, OU Administrative
CNR Technologist. She carries out research support activities in the field of automatic processing, representation and modelling of text data and their interoperability. She deals with database management systems and terminology thesauri. She is interested in the innovation of digital technologies in human sciences and collaborates in institutional activities related to the enhancement of research.
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CNR-INO – National Institute of Optics – excels in the field of advanced research in optics and optoelectronics, quantum optics and information processing. Since 1990, INO’s Heritage Science group has been active in the development of optical techniques and instruments for the non-invasive analysis of heritage objects. The HS group collaborates with institutions of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism, and with leading international research centres, conservation institutes and museums; it is currently leading the H2020 integration activity of IPERION HS. CNR-INO participates in numerous strategic projects: European (SSHOC, RES-INFRA, EHRI-PP, E-RIHS IP), national (PON-SHINE) and regional (CNR4C and Diagnose), and led the H2020 E-RIHS PP project. Within H2ISOC, CNR-INO leads the following activities: E-RIHS Community support (WP5.3), Remotization for Digital Twins (WP6.12) and Pilot (WP7.8) and will be responsible for Training, Communication and Impact (WP8.4). https://hsg.ino.cnr.it/
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Jana Striova, OU and Task 7.8 Head
PhD in Science for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, expert in the development and application of innovative, non-invasive methods for the characterisation, monitoring and cleaning of works of art, author of more than 50 scientific publications. Within the H2020 project IPERION HS, she coordinates the WP8 for the development of an integrated, user-oriented approach for access to infrastructure services and training events for the heritage science community. JS has been the scientific responsible for the CNR INO operational unit of the SSHOC project (Horizon2020); of the OR3UO13 Hy-molab of the PON SHINE (StrengtHening the Italian nodes of E-RIHS); she has been the PI of the regional high education project RS4Art (Advanced Raman Spectrocopy for Artworks). She is currently the PI of the regional project Diagnose (DIAGnostica NOn invaSiva e conservazione di daghErrotipi e altri materiali fotografiche) and participates as the WP leader in the Horizon Europe E-RIHS Implementation Phase project.
Laura Benassi, OU Administrative and Tasks 5.3 and 8.4 Head
PhD in Artistic and Architectural Heritage, Critical History and Conservation, she is a permanent research technologist at the CNR. She has a master’s degree in public and political communication and has been combining scientific and communication activities in the field of heritage sciences for over 20 years. She was a lecturer in History of Architecture at the University of Pisa and a scholarship holder at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. She was coordinator of DARTS, a Creative Europe project on the valorisation of cultural heritage, and has been scientific advisor and task leader in several European and Italian projects. Since 2014 she has held the role of Communication officer, Social Media strategist, Reporting officer and Open Science officer in projects related to the E-RIHS research infrastructure (IPERION CH, E-RIHS PP, IPERION HS, SSHOC). In recent years, she has developed the Service Catalogue for E-RIHS and an information hub in the field of heritage sciences. It is currently developing a ‘community gateway’ for heritage sciences together with OpenAIRE.
Raffaella Fontana, Task 6.12 Head
Raffaella Fontana: Degree in Physics, PhD in Non-Destructive Testing and Specialisation in Health Physics from the University of Florence. Since October 2020 she has been a Research Manager at the National Institute of Optics of the National Research Council. Her research activity consists in the design, development and application of non-invasive instrumentation for the study and diagnostics of works of art. She has participated in and contributed to numerous national and international research projects, the main ones being IPERION HS (H2020), E-RIHS PP (H2020), IPERION-CH.EU (H2020), INSIDDE (EU FP7), CHARISMA (EU FP7), FUTURHAMA (FIRB) and Eu-ARTECH (EU FP6). Since 2010 she is coordinator of the Heritage Science Group of the INO; since 2021 she is responsible for the macro-area “Science for cultural heritage, vision science, technical optics and innovative materials for renewable energies” of the INO; since 2018he is responsible for the FIXLAB platform of the Italian infrastructure E-RIHS.it for the CNR. Since the academic year 2012/13, she has been teaching the course “Advanced Optical and Nuclear Techniques for Cultural Heritage” at the School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences – Master Degree Course in Science and Materials for Conservation and Restoration. She has been supervisor of 16 Master’s Theses, Supervisor of 3 Doctoral Theses, Correlator of 3 Three-year theses. She is author of about 80 publications in the field of physics applied to the study and conservation of artistic and cultural heritage.
The mission of the Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences is to pursue scientific excellence and foster innovation in the knowledge, conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage through collaborative research involving humanities, experimental sciences and technological applications.
With more than 180 researchers, technologists and technicians from various disciplines and a strong propensity for interdisciplinarity, ISPC is the CNR’s hub for research, innovation, training and technology transfer in the strategic area Cultural Heritage, open to collaboration in national and international competence networks.
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Alberto Bucciero, WP3 Leader
PhD in Information Engineering, researcher on a permanent basis at the National Research Council, he has 20 years of experience in the field of Software Engineering, a field in which he carries out both scientific research and university teaching. Since 2003 he has been “cultore della materia” and tutor in the teaching of “Software Engineering I” of the first level degree course in Computer Engineering, and of the teaching of “Software Engineering II” and “Graphical Computer Science II” of the second level degree course in Computer Engineering at the University of Salento. Since 2006 he has been an adjunct lecturer at the University of Salento for the degree courses in Engineering, Languages, Biological Sciences and Cultural Heritage, Economics and Public Economic and Institutional Communication at the same university. Scientific responsible for the CNR ISPC Lecce operational unit of the SSHOC project (Horizon2020); scientific responsible for DIGILAB@ISPC-Lecce, operational unit of the E-RHIS research infrastructure; scientific responsible for OR4 (implementation of DIGILAB on the national territory) of the PON SHINE: Enhancement of Italian Nodes in E-RIHS; scientific responsible for the DIGILAB laboratory (former ITLAB) of the Lecce branch of the ISPC.
Bruno Fanini, WP6 Leader
Irene Rossi, OU 11 Head
PhD in Semitic Philology, she has been a researcher at the CNR since 2016. Starting from her post-doc experiences at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and the Laboratoire d’Excellence ResMed (Paris-Sorbonne Université – CNRS), she has combined the study of the civilisations of pre-Islamic Arabia and their epigraphic heritage with research on the application of computer methodologies to the study of ancient sources and the implementation of Open Science in the humanities. Co-editor of the volume “Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy: From Practice to Discipline” (DeGruyter Open, 2018), she is scientific coordinator of the “DASI-Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions” and head of the Italian UO of the MAPARABIA project (ANR, 2018-2024). She has held teaching and tutoring positions for doctoral theses at UCL-Qatar, the University of Pisa and Ca’ Foscari University. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the annual conference “Seminar for Arabian Studies”, the editorial board of the open access journal “Archaeology and Computers”, the ISPC Open Portal working group and the DIGILAB Working Group of E-RIHS.
Sofia Pescarin, Tasks 7-9 Head
First Researcher, degree in “Topography of Ancient Italy”, master’s degree in “Museum Exhibition Technician” and PhD in “History and Informatics”. Between 2000 and 2019 CNR contract manager (Virtual Heritage). She teaches Interactive Media Design (INF 01) at the University of Bologna in the Master in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge. She is Chief Editor since 2017 of the Journal Digital Application in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (DAACH). She works on Virtual Museums, Digital Heritage, Applied Games and, in general, on Interactive Application Design in the cultural heritage sector. Between 2011 and 2014, she was scientific coordinator of V-MUST.NET, on virtual museums, in the framework of which he curated the Keys To Rome exhibition. Within the framework of the H2020 project REVEAL she realized a serious game for PlayStation VR, 2019 (A Night in the Forum). She is currently scientific coordinator of the Horizon Europe project PERCEIVE (Perceptive Enhanced Realities of Colored collEctions through AI and Virtual Experiences).
Paola Moscati, OU 12 Head
An archaeologist, CNR Research Director at the ISPC and qualified in 2012 as Professor I fascia in Archaeology (10/A1), she has oriented her research towards topographical studies and the application of computer methods in archaeology. Author in 1987 of the book ‘Archaeology and Computers’, as coordinator of the international project on the History of Archaeological Computing, promoted by the CNR and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, at which she was on secondment for the three-year period 2010-2013, she set up the Virtual Museum of Archaeological Computing. As editor since 1990 of the international journal Archaeology and Computers, which joined the Open Archives Initiative in 2005, she organised and published international conferences and special issues. He has promoted the establishment of the research group ISPC Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Science, which is responsible for the ISPC Open Portal, is a member of the Scientific Council of the ISPC, of the DIGILAB Working Group of E-RIHS, of the Steering Committee of the Master’s Degree Course in Digital Humanities at the University of Salento and of the Teachers’ Board of the PhD in Archaeological, Historical, Architectural and Mediterranean Landscape Heritage (PASAP Med).
Costanza Miliani, OU 3 Head
Costanza Miliani received her BSc (1995) and PhD (1999) in Chemical Sciences from the University of Perugia, and her Executive Master of Business Administration (2019) in Management of Research Infrastructures from the University of Milan-Bicocca. She is author of more than 140 articles on the chemistry-physics of materials relevant to cultural heritage (H index= 43, more than 5000 citations, from Google Scholar), co-editor of the volume “Science and Art. The painted surface” published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and on the editorial board of the open access journal “Heritage”.
Principal Investigator of regional, national and European research projects in the field of Heritage Science, Costanza Miliani is currently coordinator of the European MOLAB mobile platform that provides access to non-invasive mobile laboratories for researchers working in the field of Heritage Science and coordinator of the Italian node of E-RIHS (European Research Infrastructure in Heritage Science). She is a member of the board of directors of the SMAArt (Scientific Methodologies applied to Archaeology and Art) Centre of Excellence at the University of Perugia and of the scientific committee of the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts at Northwestern University of Chicago.
Francesco Paolo Romano, OU 9 Head
Francesco Paolo Romano is a first researcher at the Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences of the CNR. He received his BSc in physics (1996) and PhD in physics (2000) from the University of Catania. He is author of 88 papers concerning the development and application of X-ray-based technologies for the analysis of archaeological materials and materials of historical and artistic interest (H index = 25, over 1700 citations, from WOS). He is a member of the scientific committee of the international congress TECHNART and co-founder of the international congress MA-XRF. He holds the position of associate editor in impact factor journals such as Microchemical Journal (Elsevier) and X-ray Spectrometry (Wiley) for which he has coordinated the publication of several special issues on topics of heritage interest. He runs ISPC’s XRAYLab non-invasive and in situ analysis laboratory at the Catania site. He has participated in and coordinated several competitive projects financed with European, national and regional funds. He has been supervisor of PhDs, post-doc positions and, currently, of an MSCA Global grant.
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ISTI-CNR is an institute of the National Research Council (CNR), belonging to the Department of Engineering, ICT and Technologies for Energy and Transport (DIITET). ISTI-CNR is the largest CNR institute active in the field of computer science (about 230 employees, plus students at various levels) and is based in Pisa. It was founded in 2000 with the unification of the pre-existing institutes CNUCE and IEI.
ISTI-CNR develops scientific research of excellence in the field of Computer Science; it is active in many different research topics of the computer science sector and is organised in 13 thematic research laboratories. ISTI is actively involved in collaborations with many universities and research centres (national and international), participates in research consortia and research projects, has an intense activity in infrastructural support to research and technology transfer to the business world and public administrations. ISTI also attaches great importance to training activities, supervising and involving undergraduates, doctoral students and post-doctoral students in research activities; numerous ISTI researchers hold professorships in degree courses, doctoral schools or master’s degrees, both organised by the Pisan universities and by other national or international centres.
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Paolo Cignoni, OU Head
Paolo Cignoni is Director of Research at CNR-ISTI where he directs the Visual Computing Laboratory. He was awarded “Best Young Researcher” by the Eurographics Association in 2004 and has been a Fellows of the Eurographics Association since 2016. His research interests cover many fields of Computer Graphics, including Geometry Processing and the use of machine learning technologies for 3D, applied to 3D scanning, digital fabrication, scientific visualisation and digital cultural heritage management. His laboratory has provided the community with many successful advanced software tools that have helped the research and professional activities of millions of people worldwide. One of the best known software systems developed by the lab is MeshLab, a widely known open source 3D model processing tool used in hundreds of universities, research centres and companies by thousands of users. Paolo Cignoni has published more than 180 papers in international refereed journals/conferences and has been a member of the programme committee of all major Computer Graphics conferences. He is a member of the Executive Committee of Eurographics.
Paolo Pingi, OU Administrative
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The Opera del Vocabolario Italiano is the institute of the CNR (National Research Council) that has the task of producing the Italian Historical Vocabulary. It is based in Florence at the Accademia della Crusca. Currently, the OVI processes and publishes online the Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini (TLIO), which is the ancient part of the Vocabolario Storico Italiano, and the Corpus Testuale dell’Italiano Antico. It also produces and makes available to scholars advanced lexicographic software.
WPs: 1, 4
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Emiliano Degl’Innocenti, WP 1 Leader
PhD, researcher at the CNR, coordinator of DARIAH-IT. Since 2002, he has managed several DH projects, coordinating working groups at national and EU level. Gradually focusing on the management of Research Infrastructures, he worked as coordinator of the RESTORE project and joined the PARTHENOS, IPERION-HS (as Task Leader) and SSHOC (Task, WP Leader) projects (H2020). Appointed interim European coordinator for the DIGILAB platform of E-RIHS, in 2019 he was appointed scientific director of the PON project DARIAH.it (PIR01_00022), the main RI development project in the humanities in Italy.
Andrea Boccellari, OU Head
The research that has been conducted since the early 2000s at the SCITEC laboratory in Perugia is focused on the development of skills and innovative analytical approaches for heritage science through non-invasive, non-destructive and micro-destructive, portable and laboratory investigation methodologies for complete chemical-physical characterisation from the nano-, micro- to macro-scale. SCITEC participates in the national and transnational access activities of the ERIHS MOLAB platform and provides access to MOLAB’s non-invasive and portable instrumentation and expertise since 2003.
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Francesca Rosi, OU Head
PhD, first researcher at CNR and responsible UO SCITEC for ERIHS, IPERION-HS (Task Leader) and PON SHINE. She was responsible UO SCITEC for the FIRB young researchers 2012 project FUTURAHMA (Futurism, Research Art History and Material Analyses). She has extensive experience in spectroscopic studies of materials for cultural heritage. It has expertise and long experience in the use and development of vibrational, electron and X-ray-based spectroscopic methodologies both as portable non-invasive techniques and as bench-top, point-source and hyperspectral imaging/scanning techniques. The research activity can be summarised as follows: a) Development and optimisation of a multi-technique analytical approach for the non-invasive, in situ study of works of art using the MOLAB mobile laboratory. b) Micrometer-scale studies of historical samples for the study of the original constituent materials (stratigraphy), micro-heterogeneities and degradation mechanisms of pictorial materials through micro-spectroscopies such as: micro-Raman, micro-FT-IR (mapping, imaging, transmission, reflection and ATR modes), SEM-EDS and BRaMS (Brillouin and Raman microspectroscopy). c) Structural and spectroscopic studies of complex and innovative materials used in conservation and restoration.
Olivia Bizzarri, OU Administrative
Recruited on 01/08/2001 with the profile of technical collaborator for research institutions – level VI and assigned level V as of 01/01/2008. From the date of recruitment at CNR to date, she has performed 100% administrative functions, taking care of all ordinary and extraordinary accounting for the Perugia UOS as Administrative Referent. She also deals with: Fixed-term employment contracts, CNR and University scholarship holders and assignees. Personnel management, canteen voucher management. Professional, administrative and organisational support to lecturers and researchers in the administrative management of research grants. Support for submission and contract management processes relating to research funding projects, researching calls for proposals and preparing documentation for the submission of funding applications. Management of research funds financed by the University (research grants), by MIUR (PRIN, FIRB, FISR), by other public and private bodies, European research funds and related financial reporting. Organisation of national and international conferences, also off-site. Carries out all secretarial activities for the Perugia UOS of SCITEC.
Laura Cartechini, SCITEC Participant
Laura Cartechini has been a CNR researcher since 2001 and is currently the delegated manager of the SCITEC Secondary Office in Perugia; she is the UO manager in the PRIN 2020 Sustainable Preservation Strategies for Street Art – SuPerStAr project; she is also the contact person for the CNR bilateral project CONICET with Argentina on the “Development and realisation of X-ray fluorescence instrumentation for the in situ study of cave paintings” for the biennium 2020-2022. LC’s research activity is focused on the characterisation of the chemical-physical properties of organic and inorganic components in materials of historical, artistic and archaeological interest, with particular attention to pictorial materials and understanding the related alteration processes. Research is conducted using both conventional investigation techniques (scanning electron microscopy, vibrational spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, gas chromatography) and advanced techniques using synchrotron radiation and neutron beams or biomolecular techniques. LC also has consolidated experience in the development and application of non-invasive spectroscopic methods (reflection FTIR, XRF) and hyperspectral methods (scanning XRF, hyperspectral SWIR and mid-FTIR) for the diagnosis and conservation of our cultural heritage materials.
Brenda Doherty, SCITEC Participant
PhD and researcher at CNR-SCITEC in Perugia. Deputy coordinator of transnational access activities of the MOLAB mobile laboratory in the European project IPERION HS and participates as task lead and scientific project manager in the ERIHS IP project, implementation phase of the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS). Research at the SCITEC Laboratory of Chemistry for Heritage Science has enabled her to develop extensive spectroscopic skills (elemental, molecular and electronic) and innovative analytical approaches for the study of both natural and synthetic dyes and pigments in works of art. She has extensive experience in the investigation of different types of materials (textiles, paintings, archaeological finds, manuscripts) for the characterisation and study of their chemical-physical properties using non-invasive multi-technique (vibrational spectroscopies) and micro-destructive (Raman/SERS spectroscopies) methods performed from the nano- to the macro-scale and with laboratory and portable in situ instrumentation.
Letizia Monico, SCITEC Participant
She received her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Perugia and the University of Antwerp (Belgium) in 2012. After a post-doc period between CNR-ISTM and the University of Perugia, she is since 2019 a Research Fellow at CNR-SCITEC in Perugia and a Visiting Scientist at the Physics Department of the University of Antwerp. She deals with the characterisation and study of alteration mechanisms of cultural heritage materials, in particular inorganic pigments, by using advanced X-ray methods with synchrotron light and molecular spectroscopies. Since 2021, she has been part of the access coordination team at the ID13 and ID22 beamlines of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in the context of the ‘Historical Materials BAG’ proposal. As MOLAB (MObile LABoratory) operator, facility of the European Research Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage Science (E-RIHS), she took part in more than 20 accesses within the European projects CHARISMA (7FP, GA no. 228330), IPERION CH (H2020-INFRAIA-2014-2015, GA no. 654028) and IPERION HS (H2020-INFRAIA-2019-1, GA no. 871034). She has authored/co-authored more than 45 publications in international journals and books. Her research activities on the degradation processes of yellow chromium pigments and cadmium pigments in paintings by Van Gogh, Munch and Pollock have received the following national/international awards: Eric Samuel Award – Microscopy Society of America (2013); Best Doctoral Dissertation Award – Italian Synchrotron Light Society (2013); Primo Levi Award – Italian Chemical Society (2015); Young Investigator Award 2019 (Cultural Heritage sector) – CNR-DSCTM; “Raffaella Rossi Manaresi” Medal 2022 of the Division of Chemistry of the Environment and Cultural Heritage – Italian Chemical Society.