46 Notable alumni of
University of Bari
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The University of Bari is 836th in the world, 291st in Europe, and 19th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 46 notable alumni from the University of Bari sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Aldo Moro
- Enrolled in the University of Bari
- In 1939 studied law
- Occupations
- professorpoliticiandiplomat
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Aldo Moro was an Italian statesman and prominent member of Christian Democracy (DC) and its centre-left wing. He served as prime minister of Italy in five terms from December 1963 to June 1968 and from November 1974 to July 1976.
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Checco Zalone
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- musicianscreenwritersongwriterfilm directoractor
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Luca Pasquale Medici, known as Checco Zalone ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈkekko ddzaˈloːne], modeled on the Italianized Barese insult "che cozzalone!", ("lit. 'what a boor!'), is an Italian comedian, actor, showman, singer, musician, cabaret performer, screenwriter, director and film producer. He co-wrote and starred in the five highest-grossing Italian films in Italy headed by Quo Vado?.
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Pietro Mennea
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- politiciansprinterlawyerathletics competitor
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Pietro Paolo Mennea, nicknamed la Freccia del Sud ("the Arrow of the South"), was an Italian sprinter and politician. He was most successful in the 200m event, winning a gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and setting a world record at 19.72 seconds in September 1979. This record stood for almost 17 years – the longest duration in the event history – and is still the European record. He is the only male sprinter who has qualified at four consecutive 200 metres Olympic finals: from 1972 to 1984.
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Gianrico Carofiglio
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- politicianpoet lawyerwriternon-fiction writermagistrate
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Gianrico Carofiglio is an Italian novelist and former anti-Mafia judge in the city of Bari. His debut novel, Involuntary Witness, published in 2002 and translated into English in 2005 by Patrick Creagh, was published by the Bitter Lemon Press and has been adapted as the basis for a popular television series in Italy. The subsequent novels were translated by Howard Curtis and Antony Shugaar.
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Francesco Boccia
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- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
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Francesco Boccia is an Italian academic and politician of the Democratic Party (PD) who served as Minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies in the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.
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Anna Dello Russo
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- modeljournalistfashion editor
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Anna Dello Russo is an Italian fashion journalist. She is a creative consultant and editor-at-large for Vogue Japan.
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Raffaele Fitto
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- politician
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Raffaele Fitto is an Italian politician who has served as Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Cohesion and Reforms since 2024. He previously was Minister for European Affairs and Minister for the South and Cohesion Policies in the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni from 2022. A member of Brothers of Italy (FdI), which he joined in 2019, he also served as President of Apulia from 2000 to 2005 and Minister for Regional Affairs and Territorial Cohesion from 2008 to 2011 in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's fourth government.
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Roberto Cingolani
- Enrolled in the University of Bari
- Studied in 1985
- Occupations
- physicist
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Roberto Cingolani is an Italian physicist, academic and manager who served as minister for ecological transition in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mario Draghi from 2021 to 2022. On May 10, 2023, the Board of Directors of Leonardo appointed Cingolani to the position of Chief Executive Officer and General Manager.
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Nichi Vendola
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- politicianjournalistpoet
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Nicola "Nichi" Vendola is an Italian left-wing politician and LGBT activist who was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Apulia from 1992 to 2005 and President of Apulia from 2005 to 2015. Since 2023 he is the President of the Italian Left. He is one of the first openly LGBT Italian politicians and the first openly LGBT heads of a regional government in Italy.
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Luciano Canfora
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- university teacherhistorianclassical philologist
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Luciano Canfora is an Italian classicist and historian. Born in Bari, Canfora obtained his first degree in Roman History in 1964 at Pisa University. He has for some years been Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Bari. His specialty is ancient libraries and his book The Vanished Library, which is about the Library of Alexandria, has been translated into some 15 languages.
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Michele Emiliano
- Enrolled in the University of Bari
- In 1983 graduated with laurea in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianmagistratejudge
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Michele Emiliano is an Italian politician and former judge. He is the incumbent president of Apulia Region since June 2015, and he previously served as mayor of Bari from 2004 to 2014. Emiliano has often been considered a populist and regionalist politician.
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Luciano Violante
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- judgepoliticianwriterteacher
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Luciano Violante is an Italian judge and politician.
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Kostis Maraveyas
- Enrolled in the University of Bari
- Studied mathematics and statistics
- Occupations
- musician
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Kostis Maraveyas or Kostis Maravegias, also known by his stage name Maraveyas ilegál or just Maraveyas, is a Greek singer-songwriter, composer, performer, director, TV presenter and writer. He plays the accordion, piano, guitar, hammond, farfisa and he sings in Greek, English, Spanish and Italian. Although he began his musical career in the underground and alternative music scene of Italy and Greece, as of 2015 Maraveyas has reached wider audiences and is considered as a well known songwriter-performer in Greece.
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Gaetano Quagliariello
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- historianpolitician
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Gaetano Quagliariello is an Italian politician, former Minister of Constitutional Reforms and current leader of Identity and Action party.
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Roberto Garofoli
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- judgemagistratecivil servantpolitician
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Roberto Garofoli is an Italian magistrate and civil servant. He served as secretary of the council of ministers in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
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Giuseppe Tatarella
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- politicianjournalistlawyer
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Giuseppe Tatarella, also known as Pinuccio Tatarella, was an Italian politician who served as deputy prime minister in the first cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi from 1994 to 1995.
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Rino Formica
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- politician
- Biography
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Salvatore Formica, best known as Rino Formica, is a former Italian politician.
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Silvana Sciarra
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- judgeteacherjurist
- Biography
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Silvana Sciarra is an Italian jurist and academic. She served as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy from November 2014 to November 2023 and served as its president from 20 September 2022 to 11 November 2023.
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Nunzio Galantino
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Nunzio Galantino is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) from 2018 to 2023. He was the Secretary-General of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) from 30 December 2013 to 26 June 2018 and Bishop of Cassano all'Jonio from 2012 to 2015.
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Carmine Abate
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- poetwriter
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Carmine Abate is an Italian writer. He has written numerous short stories, novels and essays, mainly focusing on issues of migration and the encounters between disparate cultures.
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Erica Mou
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- songwritercomposersinger-songwritersinger
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Erica Musci, better known by her stage name Erica Mou, is an Italian singer and musician. Born in Bisceglie, Italy, she began studying singing at the age of 5, and playing guitar at 11.
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Salvatore Rossi
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- politicianbankereconomist
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Salvatore Rossi OMRI is an Italian economist. He has held roles in Italy's financial and economic institutions, including Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy, President of the Italian Insurance Supervisory Authority, and Chair of the Board of Directors of Telecom Italia from October 2019 to April 2024.
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Carlo Salvemini
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- politician
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Carlo Salvemini is an Italian politician, Mayor of Lecce from June 2017 to January 2019 and again from May 2019 to June 2024.
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Silvio Noto
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- television presenteractortelevision actor
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Silvio Noto was an Italian TV and radio presenter, actor and voice actor.
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Eleonora Forenza
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- politician
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Eleonora Forenza is an Italian politician and spokesperson for culture and communications in the Communist Refoundation Party. She is also a member of the collective Femministe Nove and a member of the board of the International Gramsci Society of Italy. Forenza graduated in Classics and Italian Literature at the University of Bari, where she obtained also a PhD in Italian studies.
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Marcello Gemmato
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- politician
- Biography
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Marcello Gemmato is an Italian politician of Brothers of Italy serving as a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He was first elected in the 2018 general election, and was re-elected in 2022. Since 2022, he has served as undersecretary of the Ministry of Health.
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Simeone Di Cagno Abbrescia
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- entrepreneurpolitician
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Simeone Di Cagno Abbrescia was an Italian politician who served as mayor of Bari.
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Massimo Cassano
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- entrepreneurpolitician
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Massimo Cassano is an Italian politician and entrepreneur.
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Pino Pisicchio
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- journalistpolitician
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Giuseppe "Pino" Pisicchio is an Italian politician, journalist, essayist and professor.
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Vito Lattanzio
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- politicianphysician
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Vittorio Lattanzio (31 October 1926 – 31 October 2010) was an Italian Christian Democrat politician and physician.
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Giuseppe L'Abbate
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- politician
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Giuseppe L'Abbate is an Italian politician.
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Daniela Melchiorre
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- magistratepolitician
- Biography
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Daniela Melchiorre is an Italian magistrate and politician.
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Ippazio Stefano
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- politician
- Biography
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Ippazio Stefano is an Italian politician and physician.
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Augusto Ponzio
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- university teacherphilosopher
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Augusto Ponzio is an Italian semiologist and philosopher.
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Chiara Maria Gemma
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- politicianuniversity teacherdidactician
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Chiara Maria Gemma is an Italian politician who was elected as a member of the European Parliament in 2019.
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Giorgio De Giuseppe
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- politician
- Biography
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Giorgio De Giuseppe is an Italian politician who served as Senator for six legislatures (1972–1994).
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Francesco Minerva
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
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Francesco Minerva was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate; at his death he was the second-oldest living bishop in the Roman Catholic Church, after Corrado Bafile. He was also one of its longest-serving priests, having been ordained on 16 April 1927.
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Guglielmo Cavallo
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- university teacherhistorianpalaeographerphilologist
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Guglielmo Cavallo is an Italian palaeographer and Byzantinist, Emeritus Professor of the Sapienza University of Rome.
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Guido Marzulli
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- painter
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Guido Marzulli is a figurative Italian painter.
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Dante Troisi
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- magistratewriter
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Dante Troisi was an Italian writer and magistrate. His writings primarily deal with the cultural and sociological woes of Italy following World War II. Much of his literature draws on issues raised through his work as a magistrate. His most significant work is likely the novel Diario di un giudice (Diary of a Judge), written in 1962. In 2005, Troisi was posthumously awarded the Feronia Literary Prize, an award given to distinguished poets and authors.
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Giovanni Procacci
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- politician
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Giovanni Procacci, is an Italian politician, and was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the 2006 General election. Previously he was a Member of the European Parliament and a member of its Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
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Gaetano Gorgoni
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- politician
- Biography
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Gaetano Gorgoni was an Italian politician who served as a Deputy.
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Giovanni Cassandro
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- politician
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Giovanni Cassandro was an Italian Jurist by training, with a particular focus on Legal history. During the 1930s he worked as a government archivist, first in Venice and then in Naples, which gave him the opportunity to develop an abiding specialism in the wider history of Italy, especially with regard to the south. He also took a growing interest in politics, becoming a liberal activist during the closing years of the dictatorship and a member of the team around Benedetto Croce that re-established the Liberal Party after the arrest of Mussolini in July 1943. He served as party secretary in 1944 and again during 1946/47. Cassandro remained active in national politics till 1947, when he accepted a professorship in Legal history at the University of Bari. He later moved north, taking a series of professorships straddling the interface between Law and History at the Sapienza University of Rome. Between 1955 and 1967 he combined his university work with a position as one of the fifteen judge at the newly established Constitutional Court in Rome.
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Angela Masi
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- politician
- Biography
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Angela Masi is an Italian politician affiliated with the Five Star Movement. She began her term in the Chamber of Deputies on 23 March 2018.
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Maria Girone
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- physicist
- Biography
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Maria Girone is the Head of CERN openlab. She leads the development of High Performance Computing technologies for particle physics experiments.
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Raffaella Buonsanti
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- chemistmaterials scientistresearcher
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Raffaella Buonsanti is an Italian chemist and material scientist. Her research is at the interface between materials chemistry and catalysis as she focuses on the synthesis of nanocrystals to drive various energy-related reactions, such as CO2 reduction. She is currently an associate professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and director of the Laboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy located at EPFL's Valais campus.
