Program Boards

Coordinator

Roberto Battiston – University of Trento

Roberto Battiston, is an Italian physicist, full professor of Experimental Physics at the Department of Physics, University of Trento. He was president of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) from 2014 to 2018. He specialises in the field of fundamental and elementary particle physics and is a leading expert on cosmic rays.

He coordinated together with Nobel laureate Samuel C. C. Ting the construction of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, operating on the International Space Station since 2011 and dedicated to the search for antimatter and dark matter.  

He conducts research in geophysical remote sensing from space with the CSES satellite.

He has published more than 540 scientific articles in leading international journals. A columnist for La Stampa, Repubblica and L'Adige, he carries out an intense activity as an essayist and populariser. He has written The Alphabet of Nature (2022), The Mathematics of the Virus (2020), The First Dawn of the Cosmos (2019), Making Space (2019), Dialogue between an Artist and a Scientist (2012).

Vice-coordinator

Myrka Zago – University of Rome Tor Vergata 

Myrka Zago is a bioengineer, full professor of Physiology at the Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She is the Director of  the Center for Space Biomedicine at the same University. She studies and teaches space physiology.

She discovered along with her colleagues the brain mechanisms involved in the representation of the effects of gravity on the body. She performed experiments on more than 20 astronauts flying on board of the Space Shuttle or the International Space Station.

Her research has been published in the most important international journals, including Science, Nature Neuroscience and npj Microgravity (Nature portfolio).

She applies the results of her research to the development of new neurorehabilitation protocols for patients at the IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation in Rome.

Phd programme committee

Student representative

PhD student representatives are elected in a number of two from among those enrolled in the PhD Course.

The duration of their office is two years; in the case of forfeiture or resignation during the two-year period, they shall be replaced by the first non-elected; if there is no candidate in the list of elected members, a new vote shall be held; pending the holding of the vote, the Board of Lecturers shall remain validly constituted.

The representatives of the doctoral students shall attend the meetings of the Board, limited to matters concerning the general progress of the doctorate and the training courses.

NOSSEIR AHMED EMADELDIN SAYED	ahmed.nosseir [at] unitn.it	Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna - Pisa
SIRLETTI SALVATORE SAMUELE	salvatore.sirletti [at] unitn.it	University of Ferrara - Ferrara

Executive committee

• Battiston Roberto – University Of Trento 
• Baccigalupi – International School For Advanced Studies (Sissa) 
• Burigana David – University Of Padua
• Carbone Vincenzo – University Of Calabria
• Gargano Fabio – National Institute For Nuclear Physics (INFN)
• Maccarrone Mauro – University Of L’aquila
• Mazzarella Giuseppe – University Of Cagliari
• Pratesi Giovanni – University Of Florence