37 Notable alumni of
University of Trieste
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The University of Trieste is 1109th in the world, 389th in Europe, and 24th in Italy by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from the University of Trieste sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Liliana Segre
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- politician
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Liliana Segre is an Italian Holocaust survivor, named senator for life by President Sergio Mattarella in 2018 for outstanding patriotic merits in the social field.
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Roberto Fico
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- politician
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Roberto Fico is an Italian politician. He is a member of the Five Star Movement, and served as the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2018 to 2022. Previously, he was the Chairman of the RAI Supervision Commission from 2013 to 2018.
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Albert O. Hirschman
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- university teacherwritereconomist
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Albert Otto Hirschman was a German economist and the author of several books on political economy and political ideology. His first major contribution was in the area of development economics. Here he emphasized the need for unbalanced growth. He argued that disequilibria should be encouraged to stimulate growth and help mobilize resources, because developing countries are short of decision-making skills. Key to this was encouraging industries with many linkages to other firms.
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Lelio Luttazzi
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- actorpianistjazz musiciancomposersinger
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Lelio Luttazzi was an Italian composer, musician, actor, singer, conductor, writer, and television and radio presenter.
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Massimiliano Fedriga
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- politician
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Massimiliano Fedriga is an Italian Northern League politician. He is the president of the Friuli Venezia Giulia autonomous region.
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Stefano Patuanelli
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- politician
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Stefano Patuanelli is an Italian politician and civil engineer, member of the Five Star Movement. On 5 September 2019, he was appointed the Italian Minister of Economic Development in the Conte II Cabinet.
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Enrico Zanetti
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- economistpolitician
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Enrico Zanetti is an Italian politician and tax advisor. He was appointed Secretary of Civic Choice in February 2015.
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Jerónimo Saavedra
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- lawyeracademictrade unionistpolitician
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Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo was a Spanish politician and academic. He served as President of the Canary Islands twice, from 1983 to 1987, and again from 1991 to 1993.
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Demetrio Volcic
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- university teacherjournalistpolitician
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Demetrio Volcic, also known in Slovene as Dimitrij Volčič, was an Italian journalist, author, and politician of Slovenian descent. He rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s as foreign correspondent for the Italian television RAI. In the late 1990s, he served as member of the Italian Senate, and later as Member of European Parliament for the European Socialist Party.
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Luca Ciriani
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- politician
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Luca Ciriani is an Italian politician who is the group leader of the Brothers of Italy grouping in the Senate of the Republic.
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Andrea Illy
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- entrepreneurbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
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Andrea Illy is an Italian businessman. He is the Chairman of illycaffè S.p.A., a family coffee business founded in Trieste in 1933. He has additionally been Chairman of Altagamma since 2013.
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Salvatore Satta
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- novelistuniversity teacherjurist
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Salvatore Satta was an Italian jurist and writer. He is famous for the novel The Day of Judgment (orig. Italian: Il giorno del giudizio) (1975), and for several important studies on civil law.
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José Rodríguez de la Borbolla
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- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
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José María Rodríguez de la Borbolla Camoyán is a Spanish politician and lawyer, member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia, who was President of Andalusia between 1984 and 1990.
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Renzo Tondo
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- politician
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Renzo Tondo is an Italian politician, former President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
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Noemi Batki
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- competitive diver
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Noemi Batki is a Hungarian-born Italian former diver. She was a member of the Italian National Diving Team at four Olympic Games and was a member of the sports section of the Italian Army, Centro Sportivo Esercito, and Triestina Nuoto.
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Roberto Menia
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- politician
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Roberto Menia is an Italian politician.
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Almerigo Grilz
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- journalistphotojournalistpolitician
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Almerigo Grilz was an Italian right wing politician, and an independent war correspondent.
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Lamberto Zannier
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- diplomatinternational forum participantjurist
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Lamberto Zannier is an Italian diplomat and lawyer.
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Pietro Fontanini
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- politician
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Pietro Fontanini is an Italian politician from the Lega Nord, former Mayor of Udine and former President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
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Luca Visentini
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- trade unionistinternational forum participantpoet
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Luca Visentini is an Italian trade unionist. Elected general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) at the organisation's 5th World Congress in Melbourne, Australia, in mid-November 2022, he stood aside on 14 December 2022 following his arrest and conditional release in relation to the Qatar corruption scandal at the European Parliament. On 11 March 2023, the ITUC General Council voted to dismiss Visentini for accepting funds from Antonio Panzeri.
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Bianca Maria Piccinino
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- journalistauthorscience communicatortelevision presenter
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Bianca Maria Piccinino is an Italian journalist and television hostess. She was the first woman to conduct an Italian newscast, the 5:00 pm newscast.
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Mikael Minasyan
- Enrolled in the University of Trieste
- Studied in 2000
- Occupations
- diplomat
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Mikayel Arayi Minasyan is an Armenian public figure, diplomat, and media mogul. He previously served as Armenia's ambassador to the Holy See, Sovereign Military Order of Malta and Portugal. He is the son-in-law of former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
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Rodolfo Ziberna
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- politician
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Rodolfo Ziberna is an Italian politician.
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Ettore Romoli
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- politician
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Ettore Romoli was an Italian politician. He was a member of the Forza Italia party and was mayor of Gorizia from 2007 to 2017.
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Carlo Pelanda
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- economist
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Carlo A. Pelanda is an Italian professor of Political Science and Economics.
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Dario Floreano
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- scientist
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Dario Floreano is a Swiss-Italian roboticist and engineer. He is Director of the Laboratory of Intelligent System (LIS) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and was the founding director of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Robotics.
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Antonio Giordano
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- university teacherpathologistphysiciangeneticistoncologist
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Antonio Giordano is an oncologist, pathologist, geneticist, researcher, professor and writer. A naturalized American from Italy, he is the Director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine in Philadelphia, and a professor of Anatomy and Pathological Histology at the Department of Medical Biotechnology of the University of Siena. He has discovered some key factors in the regulation of the cell cycle and of mechanisms linked to the onset of tumors. In particular, he distinguished himself for having isolated the tumor suppressor gene, the RB2/p130, subsequently demonstrating how the same gene, introduced through a retrovirus in some animal models, is able to reduce the growth of tumors. In addition to his career as a researcher he also distills science for a popular audience, mostly concerning cancer risk in the Campania Region, and its relation to toxic waste.
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Marta Verginella
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- historian
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Marta Verginella is a Slovenian historian from the Slovene minority in Italy in Trieste, notable as one of the most prominent contemporary Slovene historians. Together with Alenka Puhar, she is considered a pioneer in the history of family relations in the Slovene Lands.
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Dušan Jelinčič
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- journalistmountaineerwriteressayist
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Dušan Jelinčič is a writer and a journalist from the community of Slovene minority in Italy from Trieste, Italy. He is also an Alpine style mountaineer and the first mountaineer from Trieste who ever conquered an over-8000 m high Himalayan peak.
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Luciano Rezzolla
- Enrolled in the University of Trieste
- In 1992 graduated with master's degree in physics
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- researcherastrophysicist
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Luciano Rezzolla is an Italian professor of relativistic astrophysics and numerical relativity at the Goethe University Frankfurt. His main field of study is the physics and astrophysics of compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. It was announced in 2019 that he had been appointed honorary Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin (TCD).
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Eugenio Morelli
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- physicianwriterpoet
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Eugenio Morelli, Cavaliere OMRI, Ufficiale OMRI is an Italian physician, poet, writer, essayist and art critic.
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Renzo de' Vidovich
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- politicianjournalist
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Renzo de' Vidovich is a Dalmatian Italian politician, historian and journalist.
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Jacopo Schettini Gherardini
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- economist
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Jacopo Schettini Gherardini is an Italian economist. He was a Candidate for the National Secretariat of the Democratic Party (Italy) during the primary elections of 2007. He is currently the Executive Director of Standard Ethics Aei based in London.
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Alberto Conti
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- astronomer
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Alberto Conti, is an astrophysicist and the Vice President and General Manager of the Civil Space Strategic Business Unit (SBU) at Ball Aerospace. He is one of the creators of the GoogleSky concept, of the idea of astronomical outreach at South by SouthWest 2013 and of the James Webb Space Telescope iBook. He is also the Executive Producer of the Emmy Winning CNN Films The Hunt for Planet B.
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Massimiliano Di Ventra
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- physicist
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Massimiliano Di Ventra is an American-Italian theoretical physicist. Specializing in condensed-matter physics, he is the co-founder of MemComputing, Inc.
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Claudio Tiribelli
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- hepatologist
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Claudio Tiribelli is an Italian hepatologist best known for his studies on bilirubin and Kernicterus, a bilirubin-induced neurological condition.
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Giacomina Lapenna
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- entrepreneurjournalist
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Giacomina Lapenna was an Italian entrepreneur, journalist, teacher, and communication expert. She was the first woman in Italy to work in the field of public relations. In 1958, she co-founded the National Union of Public Relations Experts, Italy. She was also a member of several international public relations organizations and of the European association of women executives.
