Scientific committee

Prof. Alberto Credi 

Vice Rector for Research and professor of general and inorganic chemistry at the University of Bologna

He is the founder and scientific director of the Center for Light Activated Nanostructures (CLAN), a joint laboratory between the University of Bologna and the Italian National Research Council for research in the areas of supramolecular chemistry and photochemistry, materials science and nanoscience.

His interests are focused on the development of molecular systems and materials controlled by light; in particular, his contribution to the realization of logic devices, machines and motors of nanometer size is internationally recognized.

He is involved in various research projects and he collaborates with several laboratories and institutes in Italy and abroad. He has authored five books and over 320 scientific publications, he received several awards, including an ERC Advanced Grant, and he has delivered more than 180 invited talks at national and international conferences and seminars. Since the beginning of his career, he has been engaged in the popularization of chemistry disciplines and scientific culture in general.

Prof. Anna Chiara Fariselli 

Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies (ISA), University of Bologna

She is Full Professor of Phoenician-Punic Archaeology at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. She studies funerary and sacred archaeology, craft categories, Phoenician and Punic music and the historical-archaeological reconstruction of Carthaginian society. She is involved in several archaeological excavation activities in Sardinia, where she is supervising two excavation projects in the Punic colony of Tharros. In her archaeological activity she has always been interested in inter- and transdisciplinary research, crossing her study of archaeological materials with physical, chemical, biological, anthropological and genetic sciences. She was Delegate for Interdisciplinarity for the Vice-Rector for Research until February 2024 and has served as Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies since 2022. She is currently Director of the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna.