Professor of Christian and Medieval Archeology at the Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge
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Born in Empoli (FI) in 1973, and married with two children, Federico Cantini graduated in Medieval Archeology at the University of Siena in 1999 and obtained the PhD in Medieval Archeology in 2003. He awarded scholarships and research grants until 2009.
He became a research fellow at the University of Pisa in 2009 then associate professor in 2014 and in 2018 full professor of Christian and Medieval Archeology (Scientific area L-ANT/08) at the Department of Civilisations and Forms of knowledge.

Institutional assignments

Professor Cantini had several institutional roles at the University of Pisa: he was Deputy Head of the Degree programme in Cultural Heritage Sciences and member of the scientific Committee for Sciences of Antiquity, Philology, Literature, and Art History from 2013 to 2014. He had the responsibility for quality of the Department of Civilisations and Forms of knowledge from 2013 to 2020. He was member of the Department Board in 2016 and president of the Communication Committee of the Department of Civilisations and Forms of knowledge from 2018 to 2020. He took part to the Medieval Area Committee for the Excellence project of the Department of Civilisations and Forms of knowledge from 2018 to 2022. He is president of the Specialization School in Archeological Heritage of the University of Pisa since 2019.

Scientific and teaching activities

Professor Cantini has continuously taught Medieval Archeology in the degree programmes in Cultural Heritage Sciences, Archeology and in the Specialization School in Archeological Heritage.
In 2001 he was awarded with the Ottone D’Assia prize for the best early work of Medieval Archeology by the SAMI (Società degli Archeologi Medievalisti Italiani). In 2011 he won the “Premio Giovani Ricercatori” (young researcher prize) assigned by the Academic Senate of the University of Pisa.
His main research activities include the following topics: Settlements and economy in Italy in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages; religious structures and burial areas; pottery in Late Antiquity and Middle Ages. He directed archeological excavations in rural and urban contexts in Tuscany and Sicily.
Professor Cantini is member of several scientific centres and societies and President of the Council for post-classical archaeologies. He was responsible of research projects funded by the Ministry of University and Research and by the University of Pisa. He was reviewer for several scientific journals and for the Ministry of University and Research. He is member of the Editorial board of several scientific journals.
His research activities have produced more than 140 papers on peer reviewed scientific journals, proceedings in national and international meetings, and monographs.

Professor of Economics and Rural Appraisal at the Department of Agricultural, Food and Agro-Environmental Sciences
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Born in Montale (Pistoia) in 1976 and married with two children, Alessio Cavicchi graduated in Economics at the University of Florence and obtained the PhD in Environmental and Food resources at the Parthenope University of Naples and a Master of Science in Food Economics and Marketing at the University of Reading (UK).

In 2006 he became Researcher at the University of Macerata where he subsequently became associate professor and full professor at the Department of Economic development and at the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism. He started working at the University of Pisa in September 2021.

He was invited as speaker and external expert by the World Tourism Organization and the European Commission (specifically Joint Research Center, DG Regio, DG Education and Culture, DG Agri e DG RTD) on topics concerning innovation of agri-food and rural areas and the collaboration between universities and territorial stakeholders.

Since 2017 he is an external expert at the Directorate General of the Ministry of University and Research giving his contribute to the PON Research and Innovation, to the National Research Program and to the PRIMA (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area).

In 2018 he joined the Expert team of DG Education and Culture for the project Heinnovate on Entrepreneurial e Civic Universities.

In 2022 he has become member of the Advisory Board of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission for the initiative “Higher Education and Smart Specialisation”.

Institutional assignments

At the University of Macerata he founded and co-directed two double-degree programs in Tourism with the University of Oviedo and the University of Kiev. He was delegate for the Erasmus and internationalization program of his department and Rector’s Delegate for the Cluster Agrifood of Marche region. He founded the first university spin-off on territorial promotion and development and was member of several committees on education, research and third mission activities.

At the University of Pisa since 2021 he has been in the team PAGE (Pisa Agricultural Economics) at the Department of Agricultural, Food and Agro-Environmental Sciences. He was an external evaluator for the Spin off Committee of the University of Pisa on economics topics and organized two Hackathons on sustainability for the Contamination Lab. For the University of Pisa he coordinates the project Start for Future funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) on entrepreneurial education and business models innovation.

Scientific and teaching activities

His research activity focuses on the analysis of consumers’ choice on local and quality products, of sustainable tourism and of innovation processes in the agri-food sector and in rural areas.

He published more than 200 papers and chapters on national and international journals and books. He is co-editor of the Book Series “Consumer Science and Strategic Marketing” published by Elsevier, Managing editor of the journal “International Food and Agribusiness Management Review”, Associate Editor of “Economia Agroalimentare – Food Economy”.  

He was coordinator and partner of several European projects Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliances and Strategic Partnerships on the collaboration between universities, business and territory.

He teaches Innovation and management of agri-food companies in the degree programme in Agricultural Sciences of the University of Pisa and in the inter-university degree programme in Sustainable Innovation in Viticulture and Enology (with the University of Florence) and in Agribusiness (with the University of Siena).

He coordinates the MOOC “Sustainable Food Systems: a Mediterranean Perspective” offered by SDG Academy – Sustainable Development Solutions Network of the United Nations.

He is facilitator for the Società Italiana di Economia Agraria (SIDEA) on the thematic group on “Business, Entrepreneurship, Innovation”.

Professor of business studies at the Department of Economics and Management
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Giuseppe D’Onza was born in Potenza on 14 October 1976. He is married with a daughter. He graduated in Business studies at the University of Pisa in 2000. He obtained the PhD in business studies in 2004 spending a research period at the Cass Business School of London.

In 2006 he became research fellow at the Faculty of Economics, in 2011 associate professor and in 2016 full professor in the scientific area Business studies (SECS P/07) of the University of Pisa.

Institutional roles

Professor D’Onza had several institutional roles at the University of Pisa: from 2014 to 2016 he was director of the Second cycle Degree programme in Strategy, management and control; from 2017 to 2018 he was coordinator of the PhD programme in Business studies established by the University of Pisa, Florence and Siena; since 2007 he has been scientific director of the Master in Auditing and internal Control and in 2021 he was appointed department reference person for VQR 2015-2019.

He was member of the board of directors of the University Consortium in Engineering for quality and innovation from 2016 to 2022.

Scientific and teaching activities

Giuseppe D’Onza teaches Business studies I, Auditing, Auditing and Management Control (in English language) and Risk Management at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Pisa.

His main research areas are risk management, internal auditing, audit and management.

Professor D’Onza is Associate Editor of the Managerial Auditing Journal and the Italian journal Management Control. He is reviewer for several scientific journals on business studies. He was coordinator of several research projects funded by the University of Pisa and private bodies. He is co-founder and member of the scientific committee of the European Conference in Internal Auditing and Corporate Governance.

He published many scientific papers on peer reviewed international journals and several book chapters.

Professor of Electronics, Department of Information Engineering
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Born in Montecatini Terme (Pistoia) in 1965, married with one child, Luca Fanucci graduated with honors in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pisa in 1992 where he obtained his PhD in Information Engineering in 1996.

From 1992 to 1996, he carried out his research activities at the Department of Electrical Systems of the European Space Research and Technology Centre of the European Space Agency based in Noordwijk, Holland.

From 1996 to 2004, he was a researcher for the National Research Council at the Centre for Radio Transmission in Pisa.

Since 2004, he has taught Electronics at the Department of Information Engineering, first as an associate professor and then as a full professor.

Institutional assignments

From January 2016 to October 2022, he was Rector’s Delegate for the Integration of Students and Staff with Disabilities and SLD, first for the Rector Prof. Massimo Augello and then for the Rector Prof. Paolo Maria Mancarella.

In January 2022, he was elected member of the Board of Directors of the National Conference of University Delegates for Disability (CNUDD).

Since 2007 he has been a member of the Teaching Board for the PhD programme in Computer Engineering of the University of Pisa and since 2018 he has been elected as a member of the same PhD Council.

From 2013 to 2021 he was the director of the National Laboratory AsTech (Assistive Technologies) of the National Inter University Consortium for Information Technology (CINI).

Scientific  and teaching activities

Professor Fanucci has taught in the field of microelectronic system design for the Master’s Degree Programmes in Electronic Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, Computer Engineering. He has taught in the field of inclusive teaching technologies for the Master’s Degree Programmes in Primary Education Sciences and for the Specialization school programme in teaching support activities for students with disabilities.

His main research activities focus on design technologies for integrated circuits and embedded systems, and especially on system-level design, hardware and software co-design, low power consumption. The main application areas are telecommunications, earth and space vehicles, medical systems and technological aids for disabled and elderly people.

He was the principal investigator for several regional and national projects financed on a competitive basis by the Tuscan Region, the Ministry for Research and Education, the National Research Council and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics. He was also the head scientist in numerous European Union projects on research and development platforms such as FP6, FP7, AAL, ARTEMISIA, ENIAC and H2020.

His scientific activities have resulted in more than 400 publications on peer-reviewed journals and conferences, as well as two books, several book chapters and 40 national and international patents with more than 5,000 citations and an H-index of 34 (Google Scholar 2022)

He has served on numerous technical committees at international conferences in the field of electronic system design. In particular, he was Program Chair of the DSD 2008 and DATE 2014 international conferences, as well as General Chair of the DATE 2016, HiPEAC 2020 and Spacewire & SpaceFibre 2022 international conferences.

From 2018 to 2021 he was Vice-President in the conference for IEEE CEDA(Council on Electronic Design Automation). In 2019 he was acknowledged as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions in integrated electronic system design.

He is the Associate Editor of the IOS Press Technology and Disability journal. He was Associate Editor of the Elsevier Microprocessors and Microsystems journal (2008-2017) and the IET Computers & Digital Techniques journal (2014-2017).

He directs, along with Prof. Alessandra Lischi, the scientific collection “Progetti di Vita: Storie di studenti con disabilità”, published by Pisa University Press.

Professor Fanucci contributed to the establishment and development of several entrepreneurial entities in the microelectronics field in the area of Pisa, and especially, in May 2014 he co-founded the company Ingeniars, a spin-off from the University of Pisa, which specializes in the design and production of advanced products for high-speed satellite-borne communications and telemedicine systems.

Full professor of "Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering" at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering
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Chiara Galletti was born in Arezzo in 1975. She is married with three children. She graduated with honors in Chemical Engineering at the University of Pisa in 2001 and obtained the Ph.D. in Chemical and Material Engineering at the University of Pisa in 2005. She was Visiting Research Associate at the King’s College London from 2002 to 2005 and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego, in 2012.

In 2005 she became researcher at the University of Pisa and in 2008 assistant professor. In 2016 she became associate professor in “Chemical Plants” (ING-IND/25 academic discipline) and in 2023 full professor in “Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering” (ING-IND/24 academic discipline)..

Institutional assignments

Professor Galletti is a member of the board of the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering and referent for Job placement. She is also a member of the School of Engineering and responsible for the laboratory of “Computational Fluid Dynamics for reactive and multiphase flows”.

Scientific and teaching activities

Her Teaching activity is mainly in the degree programs of Chemical Engineering and Energy Engineering and is focused on the following topics: Computational Fluid Dynamics, chemical reaction engineering, formation and control of pollutants in combustion and process intensification. She is the supervisor of more than 110 M.Sc. theses in chemical, energy and aerospace engineering and of  11 Ph.D. theses.

Her research activity focuses on the fluid dynamics of systems encountered in the process and energy industries and aims at their design and optimization through computational fluid dynamics and/or experimental techniques. The research topics concern innovative combustion technologies for the ecological transition using sustainable fuels with specific attention to hard-to-abate industrial sectors, and process intensification through flow reactors, also of the microfluidic type. She was the principal investigator of a university project, responsible for activities in some regional projects, national projects and two European projects. She is also scientific responsible for collaborations with leading companies in the process and energy industries.

She is the author of more than 90 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals with more than 2500 citations and H-index of  31 (updated to 2024).

Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy
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Marco Macchia graduated with honors in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at the University of Pisa in 1991, after working and thesis development in England at the multinational pharmaceutical company SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline). He then received his PhD in "Chimica del Farmaco"(Pharmaceutical Chemistry) and has been a Full Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Department of Pharmacy since 2001.

He was honoured with the Ordine del Cherubino in 2022.

Institutional assignments

From 2002 to 2009 he was the Director of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Socio-Environmental Analytical Toxicology, from 2012 to 2018 the Director of the Master's Degree Programme in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, from 2007 to 2012 the Deputy Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and from 2013 to 2018 the Deputy Director of the Interdepartmental Research Centre "Nutraceuticals and Food for Health - NUTRAFOOD" at the University of Pisa. He also promoted and directed the second-level university postgraduate programmes in "Pharmacy System" (a.y. 2006-2007) and in "Regulatory Activities: Medicines, Health Products, Advanced Therapies, REACH" (a.y. 2009-2010).

Since 2017 he is the Director of the European School of Medicinal Chemistry (ESMEC) for European PhD students and junior researcher in the field of pharmaceutical chemistry.

He has been a member of the FIGC Federal Anti-Doping Commission since 2021, and from 2017 to 2018 he was a member of the Technical Health Committee of the Ministry of Health - Section for the Supervision and Control of Doping and the Protection of Health in Sports Activities.

Since 2022 he has been a member of the experts’ board for the development of quality and safety nutrition initiatives, established at the Ministry of Health

Throughout his career, he has always fostered the relationships between the University, other institutions and the working world; since 2011 he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Tuscan Life Sciences District of the Regione Toscana as a representative of the University of Pisa, and since 2015 he has been President of the Technical Scientific Committee of the “Vita” Foundation - ITS Technical College for New Life Technologies. From 2010 to 2022 he was also President of ASIS, Association of Studies on the Health Industry, a nonprofit association recognized by the Regione Toscana.

Scientific and teaching activities

Professor Macchia teaches Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Chemistry for the Master’s Degree Programme in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology.

His highly multidisciplinary research activities, carried out also in collaboration with pharmaceutical companies of international significance and numerous national and international research groups, have resulted in more than 190 publications on prestigious international journals and 6 international patents.

His research activities mainly concern the design and synthesis of innovative molecules for the diagnosis and therapy of various diseases including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, the development and application of analytical methods in the pharmaceutical, toxicological, and toxicological-forensic fields, as well as research in the nutraceutical-food field. Recently, his research has also aimed at the development of both in silico and in vitro experimental protocols for the gene therapy validation.

Professor of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Department of Physics
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Laura Elisa Marcucci was born in Lucca in 1971. She is married and has two children. She graduated with honours in Physics at the University of Pisa in 1995. She received her PhD degree from the Old Dominion University in Norfolk and the Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, both in Virginia, in 2000.

At the end of the year 2000 she became post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pisa, then university Researcher in 2002, and Associate Professor in 2016. Finally, since 2020, she is Full Professor in theoretical nuclear physics at the Department of Physics of the same University. Since 2000, Professor Marcucci has also been an associate researcher at the Pisa branch of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN).

Institutional assignments

Professor Marcucci had several institutional roles both at the University of Pisa and the INFN. From 2009 to 2012 she was a member of the scientific committee of the physics area; from 2009 to 2014 she was a member of the organizing committee for the Specialization School in Medical Physics; from 2013 to 2015 and then again from 2020 she was a member of the departmental board and the joint teaching committee; from 2018 to 2020 she was a member of the university's committee for the open access to the scientific literature; for the years 2020 and 2021 she was local coordinator of the theoretical group of the INFN Pisa branch. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Physics PhD Council, and for the years 2020-2022 the Deputy Head of the Department of Physics.

Scientific and teaching activity

Professor Marcucci has mainly taught in the Physics degree programme, being the lecturer of the course Physics 1 since 2017 for the bachelor degree, and of the course Nuclear Reactions of Astrophysical Interest since 2004 for the master degree. She has also taught in other degree programmes, such as Chemistry and Computer Science, and for the Specialization School in Medical Physics. From 2013 to 2017 she taught also Nuclear Astrophysics at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), for the PhD programme in Astroparticle Physics Finally, Professor Marcucci has been the supervisor of numerous Bachelor's, Master's and PhD’s theses.

Professor Marcucci carries out her research activities in the field of theoretical nuclear physics, with particular attention to modeling nuclear interaction and describing the structure and dynamics of light nuclei. Particularly relevant are her studies on nuclear reactions of astrophysical interest, such as those involved in the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis or those relevant for stellar evolution. Thanks to these studies Professor Marcucci has become in 2014 Fellow of the American Physical Society. She is also member of the Italian Physicsal Society. More recently, Professor Marcucci has started to investigate the nuclear reactions of interest for "clean" energy production through fusion reactors, becoming the scientific leader of a PON project on the topic. Her scientific activities have resulted in more than 140 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, with more than 3400 quotations and an H-index of 34. To be noticed that Professor Marcucci's research activities are of great relevance not only to the community of theoretical nuclear physicists, but also to several experimental groups, with which a fruitful collaboration has been established, such as with Hall A of the Jefferson Laboratory, and, more recently, with the LUNA and PTOLEMY Collaborations at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories and the ALICE Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider.

Professor Marcucci has also organized many workshops and conferences in recent years, being a member of both Local Organizing Committees and International Advisory Committees. She has also been an invited speaker at more than 50 national and international workshops and conferences. Finally, she founded in 2018 and directed until May 2022 the nuclear physics section of the journal Frontiers in Physics, being indexed on the major databases such as ISI-WoS and Scopus.

Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science
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Born in Erice (Trapani)  in 1979, married, two daughters, Professor Anna Monreale graduated with honors in Computer Science in 2007 and obtained her PhD in Computer Science in 2011 at the University of Pisa. From 2011 to 2014 she worked as a research fellow on two European projects, then becoming a fixed-term researcher at the Department of Computer Science. Since 2020 she is an associate professor in Data Mining and Data Science in the same department. Since 2008 she has been a research associate at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies “A. Faedo” of the Italian National Research Council - CNR. In 2022 she was appointed Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University.

Institutional assignments

Professor Monreale is currently vice-coordinator of the National PhD Programme in Artificial Intelligence for Society of the University of Pisa; since 2017 has been responsible for the "Internships and relations with external bodies and companies" Commission of the Master's Degree Programme in Data Science and Business Informatics; since 2017 is a member of the teaching staff of the Inter-University Research Doctorate in Data Science (Scuola Normale Superiore, University of Pisa, Scuola Sant‘Anna, Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, CNR).

Among her relevant assignments we highlight: Director of the postgraduate programme Big Data Analytics & Social Mining, promoted by the University of Pisa and the CNR, and which involves the Tuscan schools of excellence (IMT Lucca, Sant‘Anna Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) from 2019 to November 2022, and vice director from 2014 to 2018; Deputy Director of the Interdepartmental Center "Diritto e Tecnologie di Frontiera" (2020-2022); Member of the Scientific Commission of the of "Mathematical and computer sciences" Area (2018-2020).

Attività scientifica e didattica

Professor Monreale is responsible for the teaching of Data Mining in the Master's Degree Programme in Computer Science and Data Science Laboratory in the Master's Degree Programme in Data Science & Business Informatics. She also performed the teaching activity of Databases in the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Humanistic Informatics and of Databases and Business Intelligence in the Master's Degree Programme in Innovation Management, organized by the University of Trento and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa.

Professor Monreale's studies address the analysis and extraction of knowledge from Big Data through Data Mining, Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence algorithms that respect certain ethical-legal principles, such as privacy and transparency. Her main research fields of interest are Data Analytics, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Privacy-by-Design in Big Data Analytics, Explainable Artificial Intelligence. She spent some research periods at the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey, USA) and the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.

Professor Monreale is a member of the Editorial Board of the "Journal Transactions on Data Privacy" and of the "Journal of Intelligent Information Systems: Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Database Technologies". She joined the research activities of various national and European projects and is principal investigator for the University of Pisa unit both in a national project financed by PNRR funds and a European project.

Her studies have resulted in more than 90 publications in refereed journals and conferences and several chapters in international books. The number of citations received is over 3200 with an H-index of 20 (as of 2022).

Associate Professor of Economics and Rural Appraisal, Department of Veterinary Sciences
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Born in Sarzana (La Spezia) in 1967, Professor Roberta Moruzzo graduated in Animal Production Sciences at the University of Pisa, with honors on 18.12.1992 and in 1994 obtained the title of Master in Economics of the Agro-Food System, at the SMEA (School of Specialization and Master in Economics of the Agro-Food System) in Cremona.

In 1995 she became a permanent university researcher and in 2021 associate professor in the scientific area AGR / 01 (Rural Economics and Appraisal) at the Department of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Pisa.

Institutional assignments

• Member of the Commission for the drafting of the new Statute of the University of Pisa, in compliance with the Law 30 December 2010, n. 240, appointed with Rector’s Decree 2319 of 16 February 2011;
• Member of the Commission for the preparation of the General Regulations of the University of Pisa appointed with Rector’s Decree 0012219 of 4/10/2011
• Member of the Council of the Department of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Pisa from 2013 to 2016
• Member of the University Quality Presidium for sector 3 (medical sciences and veterinary sciences) from 16/12/2016 to 14/09/2019
• Member of the University Quality Presidium for sector 3 (medical sciences and veterinary sciences) from 09.10.2019 to 09 October 2022
• Area Coordinator for Internationalization (CAI) for Veterinary Sciences from 1 February 2022 to 31 January 2025.
• Delegate of the Rector for Quality from 1 November 2022 to 31 October 2024

Scientific and teaching activity

Professor Moruzzo has been continuously carrying out teaching activities since 2000. She is currently lecturing Rural Appraisal and Accounting and Auditing Techniques, Certification Systems and Marketing in the Master's Degree Programme in Animal Production Sciences and Technologies. Furthermore, she carries out teaching activities in other degree programmes, as well as in several specialization schools of the Department of Veterinary Sciences, in national and international university masters.

The main fields of research of Professor Moruzzo refer to the following topics:

• methodologies to support rural development and territorial planning
• tools for managing the transition and disseminating innovation in rural areas
• support policies for rural development at local and regional level

She holds over 60 publications in international and national scientific journals and participated in various symposiums. The number of citations received is over 400 with an H-index of 9 (as of 2022). She participates in various local research projects (funded by the Rural Development Plan - PSR and by the POR ESF - Regional Operational Program), national (National Recovery and Resilience Plan - PNRR) and European (Horizon 2020, ERASMUS + K2 Capacity building in the field of Higher Education). She also participates in University Research Projects.

She is member of the PhD Programme board in Veterinary Sciences, having its administrative office at University of Pisa and started in the academic year 2020/2021-cycle 38 ‚from 01-11-2022 to 01-11-2023

Other assignment

• Expert in assessment of learning and skills of the Regional Governmental Authority Regione Toscana (ESF sector, training system) (N. RT20080632)
• Evaluator to support the evaluation activities of the Erasmus+ program (referred to in the Notice prot. n. 46369 of 23.12.2019)
• Evaluator for the CAMPUSONE project of the CRUI (Conference of Italian Universities Rectors) from 2004 to 2005
• Referent for UNIPI of the International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF) network since 2019
• Coordinator, from June 2015 to November 2018, of the Commission responsible for preparing the Self-Assessment Report for the accreditation of the Department of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Pisa at the EAEVE (European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education)
• Local Coordinator of the International Master on Rural Development EU-ERASMUS MUNDUS and EU Atlantis
• From May 2022 it represents the University of Pisa in the "WP2 Creating an Inclusive European University Ecosystem Task force 2.2: Developing a joint system for Recognition of student status, courses, credits and results" within the Circle U European alliance

Professor of Statistics at the Department of Political Sciences
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Born in Pistoia on 11/21/1964, Professor Barbara Pacini graduated with honors in Economics and Business at the University of Florence in 1990 and obtained her PhD in Applied Statistics in 1994. In 1995 she became a university researcher at the University of Florence, in 1998 an associate professor at the University of Bologna. In 2008 she moved to the University of Pisa and since 2016 she has been a professor at the Department of Political Science.

Institutional assignments

Professor Pacini was vice president (from 2014 to 2016) and subsequently president (from 2016 to 2021) of the Master's Degree Programme in Public Administration Sciences.

Scientific and didactic activity

Professor Pacini lectured Methodological Statistics (basic and advanced) and Applied Statistics, including Quantitative Methods for Evaluation, Statistics for Marketing, Statistics for Tourism, Economic Statistics and Statistics for Financial Markets in several degree programmes. She also performed teaching activity for PhD students (Statistical Inference, Nonparametric Statistics and Causal Inference). She was a Committee member of the PhD Programme in Applied Statistics (having its administrative headquarter at the University of Florence).

The main areas of her research activity are: causal inference; statistical methods for policy evaluation (university research and training, labor policies, business policies, social policies and welfare systems); nonlinear time series analysis and financial market forecasts; nonparametric estimation methods.

Her scientific production includes articles in national and international journals, chapters in monographs, curatorships, conference and seminar proceedings. Some of her work has been published in leading journals such as Biometrics, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society.