Advisory Board

The PhD advisory board is made up of institutions, companies, organizations and professionals representing the various thematic areas of doctoral activity, with the aim of maintaining constant and stable contact and dialogue with stakeholders, and collecting periodic feedback and advice on the doctoral training.

The current composition of the PhD Advisory board is as follows:

  • Cassa di Risparmio di Imola Foundation (Silvia Poli, President) 
  • Municipality of Imola (Marco Panieri, Mayor)
  • Municipality of Bologna (Giorgia De Giacomi, City council member)
  • Comune di Casalecchio di Reno (Andrea Gurioli, assessor)
  • Montecatone Rehabilitation Institute (Laura Simoncini, Head of Spinal Unit)
  • Istituto Tumori della Romagna IRST IRCCS Meldola (Paola Ulivi, Head of Translational Oncology Unit)
  • CUS Bologna (Valeria Taraborrelli, VicePresident)
  • Laboratori Chimici Stante (Francesco Stante, Legal representative)  
  • Istituto Zooprofilattico sperimentale Lombardia e Emilia Romagna (Giorgio Fedrizzi, Director of the Food security Department)
  • BIOLOGICA Italia srl (Carla Marzetti, Legal representative)
  • ANALAMB - Analisi Ambientali srl (Luigi Ercoli, Director)
  • Centro Agricoltura Ambiente Giorgio Nicoli (Arianna Puggioli, Responsible of the Sanitary Entomology and Zoology Laboratory)
  • CAMST (Federico Bari, Responsible Operation and Technical purchasing and services)
  • Federazione regionale Dottori agronomi e forestali Emilia-Romagna (Alfredo Posteraro, President)
  • Zini Elio srl (Carlo Versari, Production manager)
  • Milano Serravalle - Milano Tangenziali S.p.A. (Luca Dal Passo, Director of Innovation Department)
  • C-LED – CEFLA Group (Mirco Berti, Director)  
  • ASSOVERDE, Associazione Italiana Costruttori del Verde (Stefania Pisanti, National Secretary)  
  • Harpo Verde pensile – Harpo Group (Sergio Andri, Research and Development Manager)
  • Uniscape - European Network of Universities dedicated to landscape studies and education (Tessa Matteini, Director)   
  • CIGR Working groups Coordinator – RESTART  (Patrizia Tassinari)
  • PhD board members:
    • DIBINEM: Irene Faenza, Davide Gori
    • DISTAL: Maria Luisa Dindo, Alessandra Zambonelli
    • FABIT: Sabrina Angelini, Roberta Budriesi
    • DICAM: Valeria Vignali
    • QUVI: Stefania Toselli, David Neil Manners
  • Coordinator of the PhD program from its activation to 31/10/24: Patrizia Tassinari
  • Coordinator of the PhD program since 1/11/24: Daniele Torreggiani
  • PhD students representative: Alessandro Quadri
  • PhD Alumni: Alice Masini