79 Notable Alumni of the University of Genoa [Sorted List]

Fabrizio De André

Born in: Italy
Years: 1940-1999 (aged 59)
Occupations: singer-songwritercomposerpoet
Biography: Fabrizio Cristiano De André was an Italian singer-songwriter and the most-prominent cantautore of his time. His 40-year career reflects his interests in concept albums, literature, poetry, political protest, and French music. He is considered a prominent member of the Genoese School. Because of the success of his music in Italy and its impact on the Italian collective memory, many public places such as roads, squares, and schools in Italy are named after De André.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1805-1872 (aged 67)
Occupations: writerpoliticianliterary criticphilosopherjournalist
Biography: Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, journalist, and activist for the unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and spearhead of the Italian revolutionary movement. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. An Italian nationalist in the historical radical tradition and a proponent of a republicanism of social-democratic inspiration, Mazzini helped define the modern European movement for popular democracy in a republican state.

Sandro Pertini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1896-1990 (aged 94)
Enrolled in the University of Genoa: Studied in 1919
Occupations: partisanjournalistpolitician
Biography: Alessandro "Sandro" Pertini OMCA was an Italian socialist politician who served as the president of Italy from 1978 to 1985.

Benedict XV

Born in: Italy
Years: 1854-1922 (aged 68)
Occupations: Catholic bishopLatin Catholic priest
Biography: Pope Benedict XV, born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa ( Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo ˈpaːolo dʒoˈvanni batˈtista della ˈkjɛːza]; 21 November 1854 – 22 January 1922), was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in January 1922. His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I and its political, social, and humanitarian consequences in Europe.

Enzo Tortora

Born in: Italy
Years: 1928-1988 (aged 60)
Occupations: writerradio personalityactortelevision presenterjournalist
Biography: Enzo Tortora was an Italian television presenter on national RAI television, who was unjustly convicted of being a member of the Camorra and drug trafficking in 1985, and sentenced to 10 years in jail. He was acquitted of all charges by the Supreme Court of Cassation in 1987.

Francesca Cipriani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1984-.. (age 40)
Occupations: actortelevision presentermodel
Biography: Francesca Cipriani D'Altorio is an Italian television host and celebrity.

Fabio Fazio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1964-.. (age 60)
Occupations: journalistimpressionistactortelevision presenter
Biography: Fabio Fazio is an Italian television presenter. After debuting in 1982, he presented many TV programs, including Quelli che... il Calcio, Vieni via con me and Quello che (non) ho. Since 2003, he presents the weekly talk show Che tempo che fa, which airs on Nove since October 2023 and was formerly broadcast by Rai 3. He presented the Sanremo Music Festival in 1999, 2000, 2013 and 2014.

Eugenio Scalfari

Born in: Italy
Years: 1924-2022 (aged 98)
Occupations: journalistwriterpolitician
Biography: Eugenio Scalfari was an Italian journalist. He was editor-in-chief of L'Espresso (1963–1968), a member of Parliament in Italy's Chamber of Deputies (1968–1972), and co-founder of La Repubblica and its editor-in-chief (1976–1996). He was known for his meetings and interviews with important figures, including Pope Francis, Enrico Berlinguer, Aldo Moro, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, and Roberto Benigni.

Lamberto Sposini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: television presenterjournalist
Biography: Lamberto Sposini is an Italian journalist and television presenter.

Roberta Pinotti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Roberta Pinotti is an Italian politician. A member of the Democratic Party, she served as the Italian Minister of Defence in the governments of Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni from 22 February 2014 to 1 June 2018.

Alberto Fortis

Born in: Italy
Years: 1955-.. (age 69)
Occupations: singer-songwriter
Biography: Alberto Fortis is an Italian musician and songwriter.

Marco Bucci

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 65)
Occupations: politicianmanager
Biography: Marco Bucci is an Italian politician and former pharmaceutical manager from Genoa. He is the city's mayor and its first right-wing mayor since 1975. He is popularly known as the "manager-mayor", due to the significant pragmatism which allowed him to gain the confidence of the Genoese people

Divino Otelma

Born in: Italy
Years: 1949-.. (age 75)
Occupations: singertelevision personalitypolitician
Biography: Marco Amleto Belelli, or Divino Otelma, is an Italian television personality, politician and singer.

Angelo Bagnasco

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-.. (age 81)
Occupations: Catholic priesttheologianuniversity teacherCatholic bishop
Biography: Angelo Bagnasco is an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Genoa from 2006 to 2020. He was President of the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) from 2007 to 2017 and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2007. He was President of the Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe (CCEE) from 2016 to 2021.

Tina Lagostena Bassi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1926-2008 (aged 82)
Occupations: politicianwriterlawyer
Biography: Augusta Lagostena "Tina" Bassi was an Italian lawyer, an Italian deputy for the Forza Italia party, a media personality and a writer.

Claudio Scajola

Born in: Italy
Years: 1948-.. (age 76)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Claudio Scajola is an Italian politician, current Mayor of Imperia.

Claudio Gora

Born in: Italy
Years: 1913-1998 (aged 85)
Occupations: film actorfilm directorscreenwriter
Biography: Claudio Gora, Emilio Giordana was an Italian actor and film director.

Ornella Barra

Born in: Italy
Years: 1953-.. (age 71)
Occupations: international forum participantbusinessperson
Biography: Ornella Barra is an Italian-born Monegasque businesswoman. A qualified pharmacist, she is chief operating officer, international of Walgreens Boots Alliance. She is married to the Italian billionaire Stefano Pessina.

Paolo Emilio Taviani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1912-2001 (aged 89)
Occupations: economistpartisanhistorianpolitician
Biography: Paolo Emilio Taviani was an Italian political leader, economist, and historian of the career of Christopher Columbus. He was a partisan leader in Liguria, a Gold Medal of the Italian resistance movement, then a member of the Consulta (National Assembly gathered to direct the transformation of the monarchy into a Republic) and the Constituent Council, later of the Italian Parliament from 1948 until his death. Several times minister in the Republic’s governments. He was author of studies on economics and important works on Christopher Columbus, University professor and journalist.

Enzo Traverso

Born in: Italy
Years: 1957-.. (age 67)
Occupations: historianuniversity teacherhistorian of Modern Age
Biography: Enzo Traverso is an Italian scholar of European intellectual history. He is the author of several books on critical theory, the Holocaust, Marxism, memory, totalitarianism, revolution, and contemporary historiography. His books have been translated into numerous languages. After living and working in France for over 25 years, he is currently the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University.

Edoardo Rixi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1974-.. (age 50)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Edoardo Rixi is an Italian politician.

Franco Malerba

Born in: Italy
Years: 1946-.. (age 78)
Occupations: physicistastronautpolitician
Biography: Franco Egidio Malerba is an Italian astronaut and Member of the European Parliament. He was the first citizen of Italy to travel to space. In 1994, he was elected to the European Parliament on the lists of Forza Italia, serving until 1999.

Marco Doria

Born in: Italy
Years: 1957-.. (age 67)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Patrician Marco Doria, Marquis and Count of Montaldeo is an Italian academic and politician from Genoa. He served as Mayor of Genoa from 2012 to 2017.

Maria Latella

Born in: Italy
Years: 1957-.. (age 67)
Occupations: television presenterjournalistblogger
Biography: Maria Latella is a multimedia journalist, columnist for Il Messaggero, Rome's leading daily newspaper, TV anchor woman and interviewer. She works for Sky Italia's SkyTg24, on the Sunday morning program "L'Intervista." The show was voted Italy's best political/current affairs TV program of 2012).

Felice Romani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1788-1865 (aged 77)
Occupations: poettranslatorwriterlibrettist
Biography: Giuseppe Felice Romani was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between Metastasio and Boito.

Riccardo Gualino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1879-1964 (aged 85)
Occupations: businesspersonpatron of the artsfilm producerentrepreneur
Biography: Riccardo Gualino was an Italian business magnate and art collector. He was also a patron and an important film producer. His first business empire was based on lumber from Eastern Europe and included forest concessions, lumber mills, ships and warehouses. The highly leveraged structure collapsed in 1912–13. Gualino was also involved in manufacturing and distributing cement, and during World War I (1914–18) built and operated cargo ships carrying goods such as coal from the United States to Europe. After the war he was engaged in many enterprises, some in partnership with Giovanni Agnelli of FIAT. His activities included banking, manufacture of rayon, confectionery, chemicals and artificial leather.

Kostas Georgakis

Born in: Greece
Years: 1948-1970 (aged 22)
Occupations: activist
Biography: Kostas Georgakis was a Greek student studying geology in Italy. On 26 July 1970, while in Italy, he gave an interview denouncing the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos. The junta retaliated by attacking him, pressuring his family, and rescinding his military exemption. In a final, fatal, protest in the early hours of 19 September 1970, Georgakis set himself ablaze in Matteotti square in Genoa. He died later that day, an estimated 1,500 people attended his 22 September funeral, with hundreds of anti-junta resistance members leading a demonstration. Melina Mercouri carried a bouquet for the hero of the anti-junta. After being briefly interred in Genoa his remains were transported by ship to Corfu, and on 18 January 1971 he was buried. After the junta collapsed the Government of Greece erected a monument and plaque in his home town of Corfu, another plaque was placed in Matteotti square, and multiple poems have been written in his honor.

Renato Balduzzi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1955-.. (age 69)
Occupations: juristpoliticianuniversity teacherminister
Biography: Renato Balduzzi is an Italian academic and politician. He served as the Italian minister of health under Prime Minister Mario Monti from November 2011 to April 2013.

Giorgio Del Vecchio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1878-1970 (aged 92)
Occupations: juristpoliticianethnologistphilosopher
Biography: Giorgio Del Vecchio was a prominent Italian legal philosopher of the early 20th century. Among others he influenced the theories of Norberto Bobbio. He is famous for his book Justice.

Adele Faccio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1920-2007 (aged 87)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Adele Faccio was an Italian politician and deputy of the Radical Party (Partito Radicale). She was an advocate for sexual and reproductive rights, striving to give women the choice of whether or not to reproduce.

Claudio Burlando

Born in: Italy
Years: 1954-.. (age 70)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Claudio Burlando is an Italian politician, and was President of Liguria, until 31 March 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and a former Democrats of the Left member.

Luca Pastorino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1971-.. (age 53)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Luca Pastorino is an Italian politician and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies since 2013. In 2019, he co-founded èViva with Francesco Laforgia.

Gino Giugni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1927-2009 (aged 82)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Gino Giugni was an Italian academic and politician. He served as the minister of labor and social security in the period 1993–1994.

Tomaso Poggio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1947-.. (age 77)
Occupations: physicistcomputer scientistartificial intelligence researcheruniversity teacher
Biography: Tomaso Armando Poggio, is the Eugene McDermott professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and director of both the Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT and the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, a multi-institutional collaboration headquartered at the McGovern Institute since 2013.

Piero Pirelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1881-1956 (aged 75)
Occupations: politicianentrepreneur
Biography: Piero Pirelli, born Piero Carlo Pirelli,, was an Italian entrepreneur and the son of Giovanni Battista Pirelli, the founder of Pirelli.

Luigi Ferraris

Born in: Italy
Years: 1962-.. (age 62)
Enrolled in the University of Genoa: Studied political economy
Occupations: businessperson
Biography: Luigi Ferraris is an Italian executive, Chief Executive Officer of Terna S.p.A. from April 2017 to May 2020. Chief Executive Officer of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane since May 31, 2021, successor to Gianfranco Battisti.

Giuseppe Pericu

Born in: Italy
Years: 1937-2022 (aged 85)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Giuseppe Pericu was an Italian politician.

Marco Bollesan

Born in: Italy
Years: 1941-2021 (aged 80)
Occupations: rugby union coachmanagerrugby union playersports executive
Biography: Marco Bollesan was an Italian rugby union player, coach and manager.

Carlo Lottieri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1960-.. (age 64)
Occupations: philosopher
Biography: Carlo Lottieri is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Verona. He holds a bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) in Philosophy from the University of Genoa, a M.A. from the Institut Universitaire d’Etudes Européens (now attached to the University of Geneva), a M.A. and a Ph.D. from the Paris-Sorbonne University. His research interests cover Philosophy of Law, Federalism, Libertarianism, political theology, Religion and Public Life, Military Ethics, Elitism, Evolutionary Theory of Law, Commons and Private Property, Modern State. He edited many works by Bruno Leoni in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Czech.

Carla Federica Nespolo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1943-2020 (aged 77)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Carla Federica Nespolo was an Italian politician, President of National Association of Italian Partisans from 2017 until her death.

Alessandro Fersen

Born in: Poland
Years: 1911-2001 (aged 90)
Occupations: writertelevision actorscreenwriterpartisanactor
Biography: Alessandro Fersen was a Polish-born Italian dramatist, actor, theater director, author and drama teacher.

Itala Mela

Born in: Italy
Years: 1904-1957 (aged 53)
Occupations: theologian
Biography: Itala Mela was an Italian Roman Catholic who was a lapsed Christian until a sudden conversion of faith in the 1920s and as a Benedictine oblate virgin assumed the name of "Maria della Trinità". Mela became one of the well-known mystics of the Church during her life and indeed following her death. She also penned a range of theological writings that focused on the Trinity, which she deemed was integral to the Christian faith.

Alessandro Casati

Born in: Italy
Years: 1881-1955 (aged 74)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Alessandro Casati was an Italian academic, commentator and politician. He served as a senator between 1923 and 1924 and again between 1948 and 1953. He also held ministerial office, most recently as Minister of War for slightly more than twelve months during 1944/45, serving under "Presidente del Consiglio" ("Prime Minister...") Bonomi.

Andrea Cardona

Born in: Guatemala
Years: 1982-.. (age 42)
Occupations: mountaineer
Biography: Andrea Cardona is a Guatemalan mountaineer, the first Central American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and the first Latin American to complete the Adventurers Grand Slam.

Nicla Vassallo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Occupations: university teacherwriterphilosopher
Biography: Nicla Vassallo, is an Italian analytic philosopher with research and teaching interests in epistemology, philosophy of knowledge, theoretical philosophy, as well as gender studies and feminist epistemology. She is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Genoa, a Research Associate of National Research Council, and on List of alumni of King's College London. She also is a poet and lives in Rome.

Fernanda Contri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1935-.. (age 89)
Occupations: politicianjudgejurist
Biography: Fernanda Contri is an Italian retired jurist and politician. She is one of the Italian women who hold senior positions in the Italian judiciary system.

Lorenzo Acquarone

Born in: Italy
Years: 1931-2020 (aged 89)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Lorenzo Acquarone was an Italian lawyer and politician.

Hugo Pesce

Born in: Peru
Years: 1900-1969 (aged 69)
Occupations: physicianpoliticianwriter
Biography: Hugo Pesce Pescetto was a Peruvian physician and left-wing activist, intellectual and philosopher.

Giuseppe Chiaravalloti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1934-.. (age 90)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Giuseppe Chiaravalloti is an Italian judge and politician, former President of Calabria.

Anton Giulio Barrili

Born in: Italy
Years: 1836-1908 (aged 72)
Enrolled in the University of Genoa: Graduated with laurea in jurisprudence
Occupations: playwrightwriterpoliticianuniversity teacher
Biography: Anton Giulio Barrili, Italian novelist, was born at Savona, and was educated for the legal profession, which he abandoned for journalism in Genoa. He was a volunteer in the campaign of 1859 and served with Garibaldi in 1866 and 1867. From 1865 onwards he published a large number of books of fiction, which had wide popularity, his work being commonly compared with that of Victor Cherbuliez.

Tommaso Reggio

Born in: Italy
Years: 1818-1901 (aged 83)
Occupations: Catholic bishopCatholic priest
Biography: Tommaso Reggio was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Genoa from 1892 until his death. He was also the founder of the Sisters of Saint Martha. Reggio distinguished himself during an earthquake that struck his diocese in 1887. He tended to the injured in the rubble and led initiatives to direct diocesan resources towards the displaced and the injured; while in Genoa he collaborated with Bishop Giovanni Battista Scalabrini in tending to immigrants through a range of different pastoral initiatives.

Mario Lago

Born in: Italy
Years: 1878-1950 (aged 72)
Occupations: politiciandiplomat
Biography: Mario Lago was an Italian statesman and diplomat.

Giovanni Battista Borea d'Olmo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1831-1936 (aged 105)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Giovanni Battista Borea d'Olmo was born in Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia on 11 October 1831 and died in Sanremo the 19 October 1936 at 105 years. He was a member of Italian Senate from 18 November 1922 to his death.

Giacinto Morera

Born in: Italy
Years: 1856-1909 (aged 53)
Occupations: university teacherengineermathematician
Biography: Giacinto Morera, was an Italian engineer and mathematician. He is known for Morera's theorem in the theory of functions of a complex variable and for his work in the theory of linear elasticity.

Angela Gotelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1905-1996 (aged 91)
Occupations: partisanpolitician
Biography: Angela Gotelli was an Italian politician, educator and activist. She served in the Chamber of Deputies as a member of Christian Democracy.

Nicolò Anselmi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: Catholic priestengineerCatholic bishop
Biography: Nicolò Anselmi is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as the bishop of Rimini in Northern Italy since 17 November 2022. He became a priest in 1992. From 2007 to 2012, he was head of the Pastoral Service for the Youth of the Episcopal Conference of Italy. He returned to Genoa in 2012 to be pastor of the Parish of Santa Maria delle Vigne parish. Consecrated in 2015 as auxiliary bishop of Genoa, he remained a parish priest alongside his responsibilities as a bishop, until his move to Rimini in 2022.

Ferdinand Maurice Felix West

Born in: United Kingdom
Years: 1896-1988 (aged 92)
Occupations: fighter pilotmilitary personnel
Biography: Air Commodore Ferdinand Maurice Felix West, VC, CBE, MC was a senior Royal Air Force officer, aviator, and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Giovanni Vacca

Born in: Italy
Years: 1872-1953 (aged 81)
Occupations: sinologisthistorian of mathematicsmathematicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Giovanni Enrico Eugenio Vacca was an Italian mathematician, Sinologist and historian of science.

Paolo Rossi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1900-1985 (aged 85)
Occupations: politicianjurist
Biography: Paolo Rossi was an Italian lawyer and politician.

Filippo Silvestri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1873-1949 (aged 76)
Occupations: entomologistbotanist
Biography: Filippo Silvestri was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura, Thysanura, Diplura and Isoptera, but also worked on Hymenoptera, Myriapoda and Italian Diptera. He is also noted for describing and naming the previously unknown order Zoraptera. In 1938 he was nominated to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the scientific academy of the Vatican.

Roberto Traversi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1969-.. (age 55)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Roberto Traversi is an Italian politician.

Federico Delpino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1833-1905 (aged 72)
Occupations: writerbiologistuniversity teacherbotanistentomologist
Biography: Giacomo Giuseppe Federico Delpino was an Italian botanist who made early observations on floral biology, particularly the pollination of flowers by insects. Delpino introduced a very broad view of plant ecology and was the first to suggest pollination syndromes, sets of traits associated with specific kinds of pollinators. He wrote Pensieri sulla Biologia Vegetale (Thoughts on Plant Biology) in 1867 and this failed to gather sufficient notice due to it being written in Italian. He corresponded with Charles Darwin and was one of the first to speculate on the idea of "plant intelligence".

Giorgio Pighi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1949-.. (age 75)
Enrolled in the University of Genoa: 1973-1976 studied criminology
Occupations: politician
Biography: Giorgio Pighi is an Italian politician, lawyer and professor.

Adriana Albini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1955-.. (age 69)
Enrolled in the University of Genoa: Studied in 1979
Occupations: chemistwriteroncologist
Biography: Adriana Albini is an Italian pathologist and cancer researcher. She developed the concept of angioprevention which can be used to control cancer development. She is a competitive fencer and six of her novels have been published. In 2000 she was the Scientific Director at the Fondazione MultiMedica Onlus in Milan.

Luis Ossio

Born in: Bolivia
Years: 1930-2016 (aged 86)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Luis Ossio Sanjinés served as the 34th vice president of Bolivia from 1989 to 1993, during the presidency of Jaime Paz Zamora. He belonged to the Christian Democratic Party (in Spanish: Partido Demócrata Cristiano (PDC)).

Raimondo Ricci

Born in: Italy
Years: 1921-2013 (aged 92)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Raimondo Ricci was an Italian politician and partisan, President of National Association of Italian Partisans from 2009 to 2011.

Caterina Consani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Occupations: university teachermathematician
Biography: Caterina Consani (born 1963) is an Italian mathematician specializing in arithmetic geometry. She is a professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University.

Stefano Jacini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1886-1952 (aged 66)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Count Stefano Jacini of San Gervasio was an Italian politician and historian, a leading figure of the Christian Democrats.

Luisa Massimo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1928-2016 (aged 88)
Occupations: oncologistpediatrician
Biography: Luisa Massimo was an Italian pediatrician. From 1972 to 1997 she was the director of the 4th Division of Pediatrics (Hematology and Oncology) of the Children's Hospital Istituto Giannina Gaslini of Genoa. From 1998 she is director emeritus. She is internationally considered one of the founders of Pediatric oncology

Alberto Diaspro

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 65)
Occupations: engineerphysicist
Biography: Alberto Diaspro is an Italian scientist. He received his doctoral degree in electronic engineering from the university of Genoa, Italy, in 1983. He is full professor in applied physics at university of Genoa. He is research director of Nanoscopy Italian Institute of Technology. Alberto Diaspro is President of the Italian biophysical society SIBPA. In 2022 he got the Gregorio Weber Award for excellence in fluorescence.

Roberto Morandotti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: university teacherphysicist
Biography: Roberto Morandotti is a physicist and full Professor, working in the Energy Materials Telecommunications Department of the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique. The work of his team includes the areas of integrated and quantum photonics, nonlinear and singular optics, as well as terahertz photonics.

Massimo Fenati

Born in: Italy
Years: 1969-.. (age 55)
Occupations: comics artist
Biography: Massimo Fenati, is an Italian comic book artist, illustrator and director of animated films. He lives in London, UK, and is a dual citizen of Italy and the UK. He's mostly known as the creator of the Gus & Waldo book series and animations, about a pair of gay penguins in love. His books have been translated and published in several countries, among which his native Italy, where he also works regularly for Corriere della Sera newspaper.

Giovanni Battista Rizza

Born in: Italy
Years: 1924-2018 (aged 94)
Occupations: mathematician
Biography: Giovanni Battista Rizza, officially known as Giambattista Rizza, was an Italian mathematician, working in the fields of complex analysis of several variables and in differential geometry: he is known for his contribution to hypercomplex analysis, notably for extending Cauchy's integral theorem and Cauchy's integral formula to complex functions of a hypercomplex variable, the theory of pluriharmonic functions and for the introduction of the now called Rizza manifolds.

Antonio Stango

Born in: Italy
Years: 1957-.. (age 67)
Occupations: human rights activistpolitical scientist
Biography: Antonio Stango is an Italian political scientist, an expert of human rights at international level, a writer and editor. After leading several non-governmental organizations, he is currently the President of the Italian Federation for Human Rights.

Giulia Bogliolo Bruna

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: historiananthropologist
Biography: Giulia Bogliolo Bruna is an Italian ethno-historian, living in France, specialist of the discovery travels at the Renaissance, of the imaginary of the north and of the Inuit in Frencophone and Anglophone travel literature, and of the Inuit, their culture and traditional art

Graziella Pellegrini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: international forum participantresearcher
Biography: Graziella Pellegrini is an Italian Professor of Cell Biology and the Cell Therapy Program Coordinator at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She has developed and championed cell therapy protocols in hospitals across Italy.

Roberto Dabbene

Born in: Italy
Years: 1864-1938 (aged 74)
Occupations: ornithologist
Biography: Roberto Raul Dabbene was an Italian-Argentine ornithologist.

Massimo Boninsegni

Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Occupations: physicist
Biography: Massimo Boninsegni is an Italian-Canadian theoretical condensed matter physicist. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in physics at the Universita' degli Studi di Genova in 1986.

Laura Crispini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations: geologist
Biography: Laura Crispini is an Italian geologist and an Antarctic researcher. Her areas of expertise are for the Tectonics, Geodynamics and Geological Mapping including the Geology of Antarctica. She has been nominated among 150 International representative of female Antarctic researchers for the SCAR "Celebration of Women in Antarctic Research" wikibomb event. At present she is Professor at the University of Genoa at the Department for Earth Sciences, Envinronment and life (DISTAV).