77 Notable Alumni of the University of Palermo [Sorted List]

Sergio Mattarella

Born in: Italy
Years: 1941-.. (age 83)
Occupations: lawyerpoliticianuniversity teacherjudge
Biography: Sergio Mattarella is an Italian politician, jurist, academic, and lawyer who has been President of Italy since 2015. He is the longest-serving president in the history of the Italian Republic. Since Giorgio Napolitano's death in 2023, Mattarella has been the only living Italian president.

Giovanni Falcone

Born in: Italy
Years: 1939-1992 (aged 53)
Occupations: judgemagistrate
Biography: Giovanni Falcone was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia. After a long and distinguished career, culminating in the Maxi Trial in 1986–1987, on 23 May 1992, Falcone was assassinated by the Corleonesi Mafia in the Capaci bombing, on the A29 motorway near the town of Capaci.

Paolo Borsellino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1940-1992 (aged 52)
Occupations: judge
Biography: Paolo Emanuele Borsellino was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia. After a long and distinguished career, culminating in the Maxi Trial in 1986–1987, on 19 July 1992, Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in Via D'Amelio, near his mother's house in Palermo.

Luca Guadagnino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1971-.. (age 53)
Occupations: film directorscreenwriterfilm producerdirector
Biography: Luca Guadagnino is an Italian film director and producer. His films are characterized by their emotional complexity, sensuality, and sumptuous visuals. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with actors Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg, editor Walter Fasano and screenwriter David Kajganich.

Andrea Camilleri

Born in: Italy
Years: 1925-2019 (aged 94)
Occupations: writerdirectorshort story writertelevision directornovelist
Biography: Andrea Calogero Camilleri was an Italian writer.

Piersanti Mattarella

Born in: Italy
Years: 1935-1980 (aged 45)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Piersanti Mattarella was an Italian politician who was assassinated by the Mafia while he held the position of President of the Regional Government of Sicily. A member of Christian Democracy, he was the older brother of Sergio Mattarella, who has been President of Italy since 2015.

Rocco Chinnici

Born in: Italy
Years: 1925-1983 (aged 58)
Occupations: judgemagistrate
Biography: Rocco Chinnici was a noted Italian anti-Mafia magistrate killed by the Sicilian Mafia.

Francesco Crispi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1818-1901 (aged 83)
Occupations: diplomatpoliticianlawyer
Biography: Francesco Crispi was an Italian patriot and statesman. He was among the main protagonists of the Risorgimento, a close friend and supporter of Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi, and one of the architects of Italian unification in 1860. Crispi served as Prime Minister of Italy for six years, from 1887 to 1891, and again from 1893 to 1896, and was the first prime minister from Southern Italy. Crispi was internationally famous and often mentioned along with world statesmen such as Otto von Bismarck, William Ewart Gladstone, and Lord Salisbury.

Pietro Grasso

Born in: Italy
Years: 1945-.. (age 79)
Occupations: magistratepoliticianjudge
Biography: Pietro Grasso, also known as Piero Grasso, is an Italian anti-mafia magistrate and politician who served as President of the Senate from 2013 to 2018.

Giulia Bongiorno

Born in: Italy
Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Giulia Bongiorno is an Italian lawyer and politician who served as the Italian Minister of Public Administration from 1 June 2018 to 5 September 2019. A prominent criminal defense attorney, she has served in both houses of the Italian parliament: formerly a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2013, she has served as a Senator of the Italian Republic since 15 March 2018.

Salvatore Lima

Born in: Italy
Years: 1928-1992 (aged 64)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Salvatore Achille Ettore Lima was an Italian politician from Sicily who was associated with, and murdered by, the Sicilian Mafia. He is often just referred to as Salvo Lima. According to the pentito (Mafia defector) Tommaso Buscetta, Lima's father, Vincenzo Lima, was a member of the Mafia but is not known whether Lima himself was a "made member" of Cosa Nostra. In the final report of the first Italian Antimafia Commission (1963–1976), Lima was described as one of the pillars of Mafia power in Palermo.

Teresa Mannino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1970-.. (age 54)
Occupations: screenwriterradio personalityactortelevision presenterstage actor
Biography: Teresa Mannino is an Italian comedian, actress, and television personality.

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

Born in: Italy
Years: 1860-1952 (aged 92)
Occupations: diplomatpoliticianuniversity teacherprofessorjurist
Biography: Vittorio Emanuele Orlando was an Italian statesman, who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from October 1917 to June 1919. Orlando is best known for representing Italy in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference with his foreign minister Sidney Sonnino. He was also known as "Premier of Victory" for defeating the Central Powers along with the Entente in World War I. He was also the provisional President of the Chamber of Deputies between 1943 and 1945, and a member of the Constituent Assembly that changed the Italian form of government into a republic. Aside from his prominent political role, Orlando was a professor of law and is known for his writings on legal and judicial issues, which number over a hundred works.

Vito Ciancimino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1924-2002 (aged 78)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Vito Alfio Ciancimino was an Italian politician close to the Mafia leadership who became known for enriching himself and his associates by corruptly granting planning permission. An abrasive personality, he served briefly as mayor of Palermo, Sicily, as a Christian Democrat. Ciancimino was close to Mafia boss and perennial fugitive Bernardo Provenzano, but regarded Salvatore Riina as irrational.

Antonino Zichichi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1929-.. (age 95)
Occupations: nuclear physicistuniversity teacherphysicist
Biography: Antonino Zichichi is an Italian physicist who has worked in the field of nuclear physics. He has served as President of the World Federation of Scientists and as a professor at the University of Bologna.

Renato Guttuso

Born in: Italy
Years: 1911-1987 (aged 76)
Occupations: graphic artistpainterdrawerpolitician
Biography: Renato Guttuso was an Italian painter and politician. His best-known works include Flight from Etna (1938–39), Crucifixion (1941) and La Vucciria (1974). Guttuso also designed for the theatre (including sets and costumes for Histoire du Soldat, Rome, 1940) and did illustrations for books. Those for Elizabeth David’s Italian Food (1954), introduced him to many in the English-speaking world. A fierce anti-Fascist, "he developed out of Expressionism and the harsh light of his native land to paint landscapes and social commentary".

Rosario Livatino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1952-1990 (aged 38)
Occupations: judgemagistrate
Biography: Rosario Angelo Livatino was an Italian magistrate who was killed by Stidda.

Leoluca Orlando

Born in: Italy
Years: 1947-.. (age 77)
Occupations: writerlawyeruniversity teacherpoliticiansports executive
Biography: Leoluca Orlando, is an Italian politician. He was Mayor of Palermo for over twenty years and was president of the Italian Federation of American Football (FIDAF). He is best known for his strong opposition to the Sicilian Mafia during his mayoralty in the 1980s, which was publicly referenced in the media as the Palermo Spring (Italian: Primavera di Palermo).

Francesca Morvillo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1945-1992 (aged 47)
Occupations: judgemagistrate
Biography: Francesca Laura Morvillo was an Italian magistrate, wife of Giovanni Falcone and victim of the Sicilian Mafia. On May 23, 1992, she and her husband were killed in a Capaci bombing.

Bernardo Mattarella

Born in: Italy
Years: 1905-1971 (aged 66)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Bernardo Mattarella was an Italian politician for the Christian Democrat party (Democrazia Cristiana, DC). He was a cabinet minister of Italy several times, becoming one of the most important politicians of his generation.

Carmine Pecorelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1928-1979 (aged 51)
Occupations: journalistwriterlawyer
Biography: Carmine "Mino" Pecorelli was an Italian journalist, shot dead in Rome a year after former prime minister Aldo Moro's 1978 kidnapping and subsequent killing. He was described as a "maverick journalist with excellent secret service contacts". According to Pecorelli, Aldo Moro's kidnapping had been organized by a "lucid superpower" and was inspired by the "logic of Yalta". Pecorelli's name was on Licio Gelli's list of Propaganda Due masonic members, discovered in 1980 by the Italian police.

Nino Di Matteo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1961-.. (age 63)
Occupations: magistrate
Biography: Antonino "Nino" Di Matteo is an Italian magistrate and prosecutor. Since 2012, he is serving as president of the National Magistrates Association of Palermo and from 2019 to 2023 he has been a member of the High Council of the Judiciary. Due to his anti-mafia activity, Di Matteo has been under guard since 1993.

Salvatore Cuffaro

Born in: Italy
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Occupations: physicianpolitician
Biography: Salvatore "Totò" Cuffaro is a former Italian politician and former President of Sicily. He has served an almost 5-year jail sentence for aiding Cosa Nostra. He has earned the nickname Vasa Vasa (Sicilian for "Kiss Kiss") for his tendency to kiss all and sundry; he says that he has kissed a quarter of all the people on the island.

Antonio Ingroia

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 65)
Occupations: lawyerpoliticianprosecutormagistratejournalist
Biography: Antonio Ingroia is an Italian lawyer, ex magistrate, politician and leader of Civil Revolution, with Luigi de Magistris, the mayor of Naples. Ingroia is also the director of a United Nations investigation against narcotraffic in Guatemala. He is also a writer and contributes regular columns to the daily newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano.

Gaetano Mosca

Born in: Italy
Years: 1858-1941 (aged 83)
Occupations: sociologistjuristhistorianwriterpolitician
Biography: Gaetano Mosca was an Italian political scientist, journalist and public servant. He is credited with developing the elite theory and the doctrine of the political class and is one of the three members constituting the Italian school of elitism together with Vilfredo Pareto and Robert Michels.

Simonetta Agnello Hornby

Born in: Italy
Years: 1945-.. (age 79)
Occupations: writerlawyeruniversity teachernovelistjurist
Biography: Simonetta Agnello Hornby is an Italian novelist and food writer. Her novels are international bestsellers, translated in more than twenty languages.

Renato Schifani

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Renato Maria Giuseppe Schifani is an Italian politician who has served as the President of Sicily since 13 October 2022. Born in Palermo, Schifani was a prominent member of the now-defunct centre-right People of Freedom (PdL) and served in the Italian Senate from 1996 to 2022. He then joined the New Centre-Right (NCD) party in 2013 but left it in 2016 for Forza Italia (FI), the PdL's successor. From 29 April 2008 to 14 March 2013, he was President of the Senate.

Gesualdo Bufalino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1920-1996 (aged 76)
Occupations: poettranslatorwriterteacher
Biography: Gesualdo Bufalino, was an Italian writer.

Ugo La Malfa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1903-1979 (aged 76)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Ugo La Malfa was an Italian politician and an important leader of the Italian Republican Party (Partito Repubblicano Italiano; PRI).

Giuseppe Ayala

Born in: Italy
Years: 1945-.. (age 79)
Occupations: magistratepoliticianjudge
Biography: Giuseppe Ayala is an Italian politician and magistrate.

Rita Borsellino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1945-2018 (aged 73)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Rita Borsellino was an Italian Sicilian anti-Mafia activist, politician and, between 2009 and 2014, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Democratic Party.

Manlio Di Stefano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1981-.. (age 43)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Manlio Di Stefano is an Italian MP from the Five Star Movement.

Gaetano Costa

Born in: Italy
Years: 1916-1980 (aged 64)
Occupations: lawyermagistrate
Biography: Gaetano Costa was an Italian magistrate killed by the Cosa Nostra.

Giorgio Mulé

Born in: Italy
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Occupations: politicianjournalist
Biography: Giorgio Mulé is an Italian politician and journalist. From 1 March 2021 to 19 October 2022 he was Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Defence in the Draghi government. In the 19th legislature he was also vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies.

Davide Faraone

Born in: Italy
Years: 1975-.. (age 49)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Davide Faraone is an Italian politician who is the group leader of the Italia Viva grouping in the Senate of the Republic.

Gabriella Giammanco

Born in: Italy
Years: 1977-.. (age 47)
Occupations: politicianjournalist
Biography: Gabriella Giammanco is an Italian politician and journalist.

Piera Aiello

Born in: Italy
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Piera Aiello is an Italian police informant and politician known for her stand against the Mafia. She was elected to the Chamber of Deputies. In 2019 she was named as one of the BBC's 100 Women.

Corradino Mineo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1950-.. (age 74)
Occupations: politicianjournalist
Biography: Corradino Mineo is an Italian journalist and politician who served as member of the Italian Senate from 2013 to 2018.

Arturo Dominici

Born in: Italy
Years: 1918-1992 (aged 74)
Occupations: film actorstage actor
Biography: Arturo Dominici was an Italian film, television and voice actor.

Antonio Starabba di Rudinì

Born in: Italy
Years: 1839-1908 (aged 69)
Occupations: politiciandiplomat
Biography: Antonio Starrabba, Marquess of Rudinì (16 April 1839 – 7 August 1908) was an Italian statesman, Prime Minister of Italy between 1891 and 1892 and from 1896 until 1898.

Franco Restivo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1911-1976 (aged 65)
Occupations: politicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Franco Restivo was an Italian politician.

Calogero Mannino

Born in: Eritrea
Years: 1939-.. (age 85)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Calogero Antonio Mannino is an Italian politician and lawyer. He has been a member of the Christian Democracy and the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats. He served in the cabinet of Prime Ministers Spadolini (1981–1982), Fanfani (1982–1983) and Andreotti (1991–1992). He was also member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy in Legislature VII (1976–1979), Legislature VIII (1979–1983), Legislature IX (1983–1987), Legislature X (1987–1992), Legislature XI (1992–1994) and Legislature XVI and member of the Senate in Legislature XV.

Maria Perrusi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1991-.. (age 33)
Occupations: model
Biography: Maria Perrusi is an Italian beauty queen and model. She is noted for winning Miss Italia 2009.

Antonino Saetta

Born in: Italy
Years: 1922-1988 (aged 66)
Occupations: magistrate
Biography: Antonino Saetta was an Italian magistrate who prosecuted several high-profile cases involving organized crime in Sicily. He and his son, Stefano, were assassinated by members of the Sicilian mafia in 1988.

Francesco Saverio Romano

Born in: Italy
Years: 1964-.. (age 60)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Francesco Saverio Romano is an Italian politician and lawyer. He served as the minister of agricultures in 2011 and a member of the Chamber of Deputies between 2001 and 2018.

Renato Accorinti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1954-.. (age 70)
Occupations: activistpolitician
Biography: Renato Accorinti is an Italian politician and activist.

Carlo Vizzini

Born in: Italy
Years: 1947-.. (age 77)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Carlo Vizzini is an Italian politician. He was involved in the corruption scandal of Tangentopoli. Vizzini was found guilty but benefited from the statute of limitations and did not serve his sentence.

Filippo Mancuso

Born in: Italy
Years: 1922-2011 (aged 89)
Occupations: magistratepoliticianjudge
Biography: Filippo Mancuso was an Italian judge and politician. In 1995 he was Italy's Minister of Justice in the government of Lamberto Dini. The Italian Senate voted a motion of no confidence against him and this fact was the first time during the republican period. The left wing and Lega Nord complained about the review of the Mani pulite pool during Tangentopoli. He was elected for the first time as deputy in 1996 Italian general election with Forza Italia party and he was confirmed in the 2001 general elections. He left Forza Italia in 2002, because he was not elected to the Constitutional Court of Italy because of opposition of the left wing. Mancuso agreed with Silvio Berlusconi to nominate another person for the Supreme Court, possibly Mario Serio, but then Forza Italia denoted Romano Vaccarella, a close friend of Cesare Previti. After 2006 Mancuso retired to private life until his death

Orso Mario Corbino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1876-1937 (aged 61)
Occupations: university teacherphysicistpolitician
Biography: Orso Mario Corbino was an Italian physicist and politician. He is noted for his studies of the influence of external magnetic fields on the motion of electrons in metals and he discovered the Corbino effect. He served as the minister for education in 1921 and as the Minister for National Economy in 1921. He also served as professor of the University of Messina (1905) and of the University of Rome (1908).

Sergio D'Antoni

Born in: Italy
Years: 1946-.. (age 78)
Occupations: politiciantrade unionist
Biography: Sergio Antonio D'Antoni is an Italian politician, syndicalist and sports manager, current President of CONI Sicilia.

Giuseppe Alessi

Born in: Italy
Years: 1905-2009 (aged 104)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Giuseppe Alessi was an Italian politician.

Giovanni Pitruzzella

Born in: Italy
Years: 1959-.. (age 65)
Occupations: university teacherlawyerjurist
Biography: Giovanni Pitruzzella is an Italian jurist and academic who has served as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy since 14 November 2023. He concurrently serves as a Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), a position he has held since October 2018.

Gaspar Schott

Born in: Germany
Years: 1608-1666 (aged 58)
Occupations: physicistteacherscientisttheologianmathematician
Biography: Gaspar Schott was a German Jesuit and scientist, specializing in the fields of physics, mathematics and natural philosophy, and known for his industry.

Pietro Tomasi della Torretta

Born in: Italy
Years: 1873-1962 (aged 89)
Occupations: politiciandiplomat
Biography: Pietro Paolo Tomasi, marchese della Torretta, known as Pietro Tomasi della Torretta, was an Italian politician and diplomat, and a member of the noble family of the Princes of Lampedusa. He served as President of the Senate from 20 July 1944 until his resignation on 25 June 1946.

Gaetano Arturo Crocco

Born in: Italy
Years: 1877-1968 (aged 91)
Occupations: military personnelengineeraerospace engineeruniversity teacher
Biography: Gaetano Arturo Crocco was an Italian scientist and aeronautics pioneer, the founder of the Italian Rocket Society, and went on to become Italy's leading space scientist. He was born in Naples.

Elda Pucci

Born in: Italy
Years: 1928-2005 (aged 77)
Occupations: physicianpolitician
Biography: Elda Pucci was an Italian politician and professor.

Ignazio Messina

Born in: Italy
Years: 1964-.. (age 60)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Ignazio Messina is an Italian lawyer and politician. He is the current leader of Italy of Values.

Diego Cammarata

Born in: Italy
Years: 1951-.. (age 73)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Diego Cammarata is an Italian politician.

Adolfo Omodeo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1889-1946 (aged 57)
Occupations: historianuniversity teacherpolitician
Biography: Adolfo Omodeo was an Italian historian and politician, who served as Minister of Public Education of the Badoglio II Cabinet.

Francesco Paolo Cantelli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1875-1966 (aged 91)
Occupations: statisticianeconomistmathematicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Francesco Paolo Cantelli was an Italian mathematician. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, probability theory, and actuarial science.

Turi Simeti

Born in: Italy
Years: 1929-2021 (aged 92)
Occupations: installation artistpainterceramicistperformance artist
Biography: Turi Simeti was an Italian painter born in Alcamo, Sicily, Italy.

Nicola Badalucco

Born in: Italy
Years: 1929-2015 (aged 86)
Occupations: screenwriterjournalist
Biography: Nicola Badalucco was an Italian screenwriter. He has written for 38 films since 1969. He was nominated for an Academy Award at the 42nd Academy Awards in the category Original Screenplay for the film The Damned.

Girolamo De Angelis

Born in: Italy
Years: 1567-1623 (aged 56)
Occupations: missionaryCatholic priest
Biography: Jerome de Angelis was an Italian Jesuit missionary to Japan. He was beatified in 1867.

Salvatore Lauricella

Born in: Italy
Years: 1922-1996 (aged 74)
Occupations: politicianlawyer
Biography: Salvatore Lauricella was an Italian attorney, politician, and chairman of the Italian Socialist Party.

Aldo Rizzo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1935-2021 (aged 86)
Occupations: politicianmagistrate
Biography: Aldo Rizzo was an Italian politician and magistrate.

Roberto Gambino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1962-.. (age 62)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Roberto Gambino is an Italian architect 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.

Pia Nalli

Born in: Italy
Years: 1886-1964 (aged 78)
Enrolled in the University of Palermo: Studied in 1904-1910
Occupations: mathematician
Biography: Pia Maria Nalli was an Italian mathematician known for her work on the summability of Fourier series, on Morera's theorem for analytic functions of several variables and for finding the solution to the Fredholm integral equation of the third kind for the first time. Her research interests ranged from algebraic geometry to functional analysis and tensor analysis; she was a speaker at the 1928 International Congress of Mathematicians.

Giovanni Ruvolo

Born in: Italy
Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
Occupations: politicianbiologist
Biography: Giovanni Ruvolo is an Italian biologist and politician.

Michele Cipolla

Born in: Italy
Years: 1880-1947 (aged 67)
Occupations: university teachermathematician
Biography: Michele Cipolla was an Italian mathematician, mainly specializing in number theory.

Camillo Giardina

Born in: Italy
Years: 1907-1985 (aged 78)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Camillo Giardina was an Italian Christian Democrat politician. He was minister of health (1959–1962) in the Government of Italy.

Giuseppe Bagnera

Born in: Italy
Years: 1865-1927 (aged 62)
Enrolled in the University of Palermo: Studied in 1890
Occupations: university teachermathematician
Biography: Giuseppe Bagnera was an Italian mathematician.

Michele De Franchis

Born in: Italy
Years: 1875-1946 (aged 71)
Occupations: university teachermathematician
Biography: Michele de Franchis was an Italian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. He is known for the De Franchis theorem and the Castelnuovo–de Franchis theorem.

Raimondo Borsellino

Born in: Italy
Years: 1905-1998 (aged 93)
Occupations: politiciansurgeon
Biography: Raimondo Borsellino was an Italian politician. He was born in Cattolica Eraclea, and represented the Christian Democracy in the Constituent Assembly of Italy from 1946 to 1948 and in the Chamber of Deputies from 1948 to 1958.

Agustina Casas Sere-Leguizamon

Born in: Uruguay
Years: 1984-.. (age 40)
Occupations: digital artist
Biography: Agustina Casas Seré Leguizamon is an international award-winning digital artist. Her digital art collection "Ensueños Rioplatenses," was declared a "National Work of Tourist Interest" by the government of Uruguay, the highest artistic honor awarded by that nation (analogous to the United States National Medal of Arts). Casas was also officially declared a "Young Leader in Latin America" by the Washington, D.C.-based Inter-American Development Bank (IBD). Casas was named by the Museum of the Americas as "one of the most influential artists of 2015," and she was permanently admitted to its 100 Certified Artists Organization. Casas' work has been exhibited across the globe, including as part of Google's Project for New Media in New York and in private commissions and exhibitions by Fortune 500 companies, such as Fiat (2013) and Goodyear (2014).

Eleonora Troja

Occupations: astrophysicist
Biography: Eleonora Troja is an Italian astrophysicist. In 2017 she led the discovery of X-ray emission from the gravitational wave source GW170817.

Giuseppina Fabbiano

Born in: Italy
Enrolled in the University of Palermo: Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
Occupations: researcherastrophysicist
Biography: Giuseppina "Pepi" Fabbiano is an American astrophysicist. She works in the High Energy Astrophysics Division, at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.