Organization

Board of Directors

The Association is administered by a Board of Directors of three to twenty-five members, including the President and the Vice President.

The Board of Directors is elected by the Assembly, holds office for three year and each member can be re-elected consecutively only once. At least two thirds of the members of the Board must be elected to represent the Founding Members.

Current members of the Board of Directors are:

PRESIDENT – Sanzio Bassini

Sanzio Bassini, Director of the Application and Innovation Department of Supercomputing of CINECA, the Italian Interuniversity Consortium, Scientific Director of International Foundation Big Data and AI of Human Development.

He has been an independent reviewer of many international digital infrastructure projects, recently member of the expert committee of the Canadian Major Science Initiative Fund 2017 – 2022. Over the years he has been Vice President of the Research Area of the European Technology Platform for HPC – ETP4HPC AISBL 2012 – 2014 and President of the Partnership for Advanced Computing – PRACE Council in the period 2014 – 2106.

After being the Italian Sherpa representative in the working group for the establishment of the JU EuroHPC, he is currently a Member of the EuroHPC Infrastructure Advisory Board and Leader of the EuroHPC Italian Pre- Exascale Leonardo Infrastructure Project.

Marina Silverii

Executive Director of ART-ER, expert in coordinating activities and services for technology transfer, research results valorization, skills and talent attraction. Vice President of the Fondazione Ecosister.
For 10 years, she was in charge of the European Resource Center for Orientation, promoted by the Ministry of Labor and the European Commission. She is a member of the Technical Scientific Committee of APRE. On appointment by the MUR, she is an expert member of the Italian Task Force of the EIC and EIE Program Committee within Horizon Europe 2021-2027. She is a member of the Management Board of the European Association Nereus.

Antonio Zoccoli

Antonio Zoccoli is full professor of experimental physics at the University of Bologna. Since July 1, 2019 he is President of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN).Associate researcher of the Bologna Section of the INFN, of which he was Director from 2006 to 2011, since 2011 he was a member of the Executive Board and the vice president.
During his scientific career, he has always been active in the experimental field of fundamental physics, nuclear and subnuclear. Zoccoli is co-author of more than 700 scientific and technical publications in international journals.

Raffaele Lodi

Raffaele Lodi is full professor of Neuroradiology at the University of Bologna. He is the Scientific Director of IRCCS “Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche” in Bologna where his scientific activity, together with the clinical one of Diagnostic Neuroradiology, is aimed at the study of pathophysiological mechanisms and the identification of biomarkers of central nervous system diseases using advanced imaging techniques, and in particular, Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Elisa Molinari

Elisa Molinari is full professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and associate member of the Nanoscience Institute of the National Research Council (CNR) in Modena. She is the Director of MaX – Materials design at the Exascale, a European Centre of Excellence for HPC applications, and member of the Industrial and Scientific Advisory Board of EuroHPC.

Gianclaudio Ferro

Gianclaudio Ferro is a senior researcher at the High Performance Computing Laboratory of ENEA’s ICT Division. He has a experience on radiation transfer modelling, solid state physics and virtual research environments. He is author or co-author of about 80 publications in international journals and conferences.

Stefano Giovannini

Stefano Giovannini

Stefano Giovannini, degree in telecommunications engineering and “Primo Tecnologo” at INAF – the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics. Involved in computer science, manager of INAF administrative information systems and coordinator of the management control activities. At the moment is the Vice-President of the Institute and member of the Board of Directors since 2015.

Francesca Quareni

Francesca Quareni graduated and got a PhD in Physics at University of Bologna. As researcher in Geophysics, she was employed at Arizona St. Univ. (USA), Osservatorio Vesuviano, and, today, at National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. At present, she is the Director of Bologna Branch of INGV.

Marina Mordenti

Marina Mordenti has graduated in Veterinary Biotechnology and in Molecular and Cellular Biology and got a PhD in Histopathological Veterinary Disciplines. She is a senior researcher at the Rare Skeletal Disorders Department of IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli. Her research activities are focused on disease registries and modelling of platforms for biomedical data management.
She is involved in several projects and author of peer reviewed publications.

Giorgia Landi

Giorgia Landi, graduated in 2016 in Civil Engineering and registered at the Engineers Association of Ferrara. Currently employed at Lepida in the General Director Staff, since 2022 she drives the Big Data department. She is responsible for managing and developing corporate strategies with a particular focus on data-related matters.

Alberto Melloni

Alberto Melloni, Secretary of FSCIRE.IT, holds the UNESCO Chair on Religious Pluralism and Peace at UNIBO.IT and the Chair of History of Christianity at UNIMORE.IT. He is dean of the Italian national PhD in Religious Studies; Scientific coordinator of the EU research Insfrstrucure RESILIENCE.ORG; Founder of the European Academy of Religion; General Editor of COGD in «Corpus Christianorum», member of the the board of several journals («Cristianesimo nella storia», «Common Knowledge» «Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kirchengeschichte», «Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae», «Palermo occasional papers on Islam»). Since 2020 he serves as Chief Scientific Advisor of the European Commission.

Nicola Gentili

Nicola Gentili is a Computer Science professional at the IRCCS IRST (Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori “Dino Amadori”). Coordinator of Data Unit of the IRST works as Data Scientist, Business developer, and researcher in the Outcome Research Unit. Nicola is pursuing studies in Digital Transformation Management and actively collaborates with the Emilia-Romagna Healthcare System. He holds roles in the Steering Committee of Progetto Sanità Digitale Romagna and the Scientific Committee of Laboratorio Sanità Digitale Romagna.

Fabrizio Riguzzi

Fabrizio Riguzzi is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Ferrara and is vice-president of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of more than 150 peer reviewed papers.

Rita Cucchiara

Rita Cucchiara is Full Professor of Information Processing Systems at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and her main expertises are in Artificial Vision and Deep Learning. She is head of the Aimagelab and AI Academy, member of the IIT Council and Director of the CINI AIIS National Lab.

Roberto De Renzi

Professor of Physics, University of Parma, ISMS Yamazaki Prize 2014 recipient, he contributed to the development of muon spin spectroscopy (MuSR) at CERN, and ISIS (UK), advised PSI (CH) and J-PARC (JP). He investigated superconductors and magnets by MuSR and muon-crystal interactions by Density Functional Theory. He is author of 200 papers and coauthor of a condensed matter textbook.

Michela Milano

MichelaHR

Michela Milano is full professor at University of Bologna and Chair of the Interdepartmental Institute of Human-Centered AI involving more than 400 researchers and professors. Her research activity is focussed on decision support systems in particular those merging data-driven and knowledge-based models.
She is author of more than 170 papers on international conferences and journals and coordinator of many research and industrial projects.

Paolo Tubertini

Paolo Tubertini graduated in 2010 in Industrial and Management Engineering at the University of Bologna and got a PhD in Automatic Control and Operational Research at the University of Bologna on Operational research applied to healthcare. He is an Engineering Manager at IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna Policlinico di Sant’Orsola since 2022 in charge of redesigning the Enterprise Information Systems for Integrated Care and Research Data Management.

The Assembly

Made up of all the Members in good standing with the payment of the annual membership fee.

The ordinary shareholders’ meeting:

  • elects the Board of Directors;
  • elects, among the members of the Board of Directors, the President and the Vice President;
  • deliberates on the admission and exclusion of Members on the proposal of the Board of Directors;
  • deliberates, on proposal of the Board of Directors, the program of the activities of the Association;
  • deliberates on the regulations of the Association;
  • approves the annual report and the budget and balance sheet;
  • ratifies the measures within its competence, adopted by the Board of Directors for reasons of urgency;
  • deliberates on the possible establishment of a technical-scientific Committee with the task of providing guidance, in support of the Board of Directors;
  • appoints the Auditor;
  • on the proposal of the Board of Directors, decides on the amount of the one-off membership fee and on the amount of the annual membership fee that Members are required to pay for the activities and operation of the Association and on any changes to them;
  • deliberates on any other matter that this Statute or the law reserves to its competence, as well as on those that the Board of Directors deems appropriate to submit to it.

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