Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is composed of three Directors that must be members of the Science Board from different institutions; it must include one member from the Host Institution and one representative whose research profile is focused in the area of Living Technology.
Rudolf M. Füchslin
Professor for Applied Complex Systems Sciences, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Achille Giacometti
Full Professor of Condensed matter physics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Norman Packard
Founder of ProtoLife and chaos theory physicist
Science Board
The Science Board is composed of 10-12 members elected by the General Assembly. Main functions include:
- developing the Centre's annual program of activities;
- realization and coordination of the plan of activities;
- assisting the Board of Directors in the management of the Centre.
Members of the Science Board
Guido Caldarelli
Full Professor of Physics at Ca' Foscari and a LIMS Fellow, President of the Complex Systems Society
Harold Fellermann
Lecturer at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, England
Rudolf M. Füchslin
Professor for Applied Complex Systems Sciences, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Achille Giacometti
Full Professor of Condensed matter physics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Principal Investigator at the University of Trento Trento, Italy
Doron Lancet
Full Professor at the Department of Molecular Genetics at Weizmann Insitute of Science
John McCaskill
Professor of Theoretical Biochemistry (D.Phil. Oxford, 1982 in Theoretical Chemistry)
Norman Packard
Founder of ProtoLife and chaos theory physicist
Marcello Pelillo
Full Professor of Computer Science at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Steen Rasmussen
Chair of the Science Board
Professor in physics at University of Southern Denmark and Director of the Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT)
Director of the Department Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Roberto Serra
Full professor of Complex Systems at the Department of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics - Unimore
Associate professor, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Academic Assembly and General Assembly
The Centre's Academic Assembly has the following functions:
- supporting the Centre's activities through participation of its Members;
- establishing the bylaws by voting on changes proposed by the Science Board;
- voting on the requests for new membership in the Centre that are approved by the Science Board.
The Centre's General Assembly is composed of Members of the Centre and Fellows of the Centre. The General Assembly has the following functions:
- providing suggestions for the development of the Centre;
- electing members of the Science Board;
- electing Fellows of the Centre;
- approving the provisional budget for the following year and the final budget of the previous year.
Members of the Academic Assembly and General Assembly
Vladimir Baulin
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry
Mark Bedau
Reed College, USA
Pierpaolo Campostrini
Corila, Italy
Rudolf M. Füchslin
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Vygintas Gontis
Vilnius University, Lithuania
János Kertész
Professor at the Department of Network and Data Science, Central European University (CEU)
Natalio Krasnogor
University of Nottingham, UK
Doron Lancet
Full Professor at the Department of Molecular Genetics at Weizmann Insitute of Science
Claes Andersson
Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology
Peter E. Nielsen
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Norman Packard
ProtoLife s.r.l., Italy
Marcello Pelillo
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Irene Poli
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Steen Rasmussen
Professor in physics at University of Southern Denmark and Director of the Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT)
Gregor Schöner
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Associate Professor, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Ricard Solé
Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board oversees and advises the Board of Directors on all activities of the Centre and on its organization and its financial state, mostly by promoting cooperation with academic and private sectors to promote the Centre’s research.
Members of the Advisory Board
Tiziana Lippiello
Rector, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Michele Bugliesi
President of Fondazione di Venezia
Andrea Castellin
General Manager - Brenta
Annalisa Delnevo
AD Modum R&D
Patrice Garnier
Chef Executive Officer - Amabiotics SAS
Paolo Gurisatti
Industrial economist and local development agent
Fellows
List of fellows
Irene Poli
Research Professor of Statistics at the European Centre for Living Technology
Susanne Still
Professor of Information and Computer Sciences
at the University of Hawai`i
Susan Stepney
Professor of Computer Science, University of York
Pierre-Alain Monnard
Adjunct Associate Professor at the Dept of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy
Faculty of Science, University of Southern Denmark
CEO and co-founder of Acthera Therapeutics Ltd
Seth Bullock
Toshiba Chair in Data Science and Simulation
Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol
Raffaella Burioni
Professor of Theoretical Physics of Matter
Department of Physics at the University of Parma
Jitka Čejková
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
Cecilia Clementi
Professor of Computational Biophysics at the Free University of Berlin
Stefano Ruffo
Professor of Statistical Physics at SISSA
Nathaniel Virgo
Specially appointed assistant professor, Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Tokyo
Xue Desheng
Professor, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Andrea Roli
Assistant professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI)
Campus of Cesena, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Denise Pumain
Emeritus Professor, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, member of the CNRS UMR Géographie-cités
Peter M.A. Sloot
Professor of Complex Adaptive Systems. Scientific
Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam
Thilo Stadelmann
Director of ZHAW Centre for Artificial Intelligence and head of the Computer Vision, Perception and Cognition Group at ZHAW School of Engineering
Ali Shokoufandeh
Professor of Computer Science and Senior Associate Dean for Research
College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University
Bernd Mayer
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Emergentec Biodevelopment GmbH and Computational Biology Expert
Claes Andersson
Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology
Dario Floreano
Director of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Felipe Cucker
Chair Professor of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong
Guido Caldarelli
Full Professor of Physics at Ca' Foscari and a LIMS Fellow, President of the Complex Systems Society
Harold Fellermann
Lecturer at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, England
Ivan Gladich
Permanent Scientist, Qatar Environmental and Energy Research Institute/ Hamad Bin Khalifa University
John McCaskill
Professor (Theoretical Biochemistry), Multidisciplinary Research Consultant and pioneer of Electronic Chemical Cells
Luc Steels
ICREA research professor at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (CSIC,UPF)
Marco Villani
Associate professor, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Martin Hanczyc
Principal Investigator at the University of Trento Trento, Italy
Richard Walker
Senior Research Associate, Blue Brain Project, EPFL, Switzerland
Roberto Serra
Professor of Complex Systems at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Robert Shaw
Visiting Researcher at Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Metin Sitti
Director, Physical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Teresa Scantamburlo
Researcher at Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics at Ca' Foscari Univeristy of Venice
Petra Schwille
Director of the Department Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Uwe Tangen
Hard- & Software Development, EvoMotion
Sergi Valverde
CSIC tenured scientist at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona
Patrick Wagler
Project Manager, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Researchers
List of researchers
Achille Giacometti
Full Professor of Condensed matter physics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Alessandro Angelini
Associate professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Alessandro Torcinovich
PhD Student in Computer Science at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Alvise Benedetti
Professor of Physicalchemistry at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Andrea Roli
Assistant professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI)
Campus of Cesena, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Antonio Camurri
Full professor at DIBRIS, Polytechnic School, University of Genoa
Arno Lukas
Co-founder and Managing Partner of emergentec biodevelopment
Beatrice De Gelder
Professor at Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Veronica Distefano
Researcher in Statistics at University of Salento
Carlo Semenza
Full Professor of Neuropsychology in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of Padova and in the Padova Neuroscience Centre
Claudio Lucchese
Full Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Claudio Silvestri
Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics
Dante Mantini
Scientific Director, IRCCS San Camillo Hospital, Venice (Italy)
Debora Slanzi
Researcher at the Department of Management, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Enrico Bertuzzo
Full Professor of Hydrology at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Federico Polo
Researcher Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Flavio Rizzolio
Full professor in the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Flavio Romano
Associate Professor in Physics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Gianluca Lebani
Researcher at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Irene Poli
Research Professor of Statistics at the European Centre for Living Technology
Ismail Elezi
PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Luca Bonatti
Professor of Developmental psychology at Ca' Foscari
Marcello Pelillo
Full Professor of Computer Science at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Marco Villani
Associate Professor, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Maria Mannone
Subject expert - DAIS Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Marina Khoroshiltseva
PhD Student in Computer Science at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Marta Simeoni
Assistant Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Monica Billio
Professor of Econometrics at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice
Philip J. Brown
Emeritus Professor at University of Kent
Pietro Riello
Director of the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Roberto Casarin
Full Professor of Econometrics at University Ca' Foscari of Venice
Roberto Serra
Professor of Complex Systems at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Salvatore Orlando
Full Professor at Ca' Foscari University, Venice
Samir Simon Suweis
Associate Professor, LIPh Lab, Physics & Astronomy Dept. Padova Neuroscience Center University of Padova
Sebastiano Vascon
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Sinem Aslan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Walter Quattrociocchi
Head of the Laboratory of Data and Complexity at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Seyum Assefa Abebe
Research grant holder at ECLT - Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Rahul Ramakrishnan
Research grant holder at ECLT - Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Marco Tuccio
Research grant holder at ECLT - Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Roger Jones
Research grant holder at ECLT - Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Amsalu Woldie Yalew
Research grant holder at ECLT - Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Administrative staff
The Administrative Office provides support in the elaboration and submission of research proposals funded by international institutions and European funding programs. The staff managing the funded projects also coordinates all the Center’s administrative and financial tasks. The office manages a variety of academic events and disseminates ECLT’s activities to a wide and diverse audience through social media, web development and graphic design.
Members of the administrative staff
Alessandra Bonesso
Research facilitator
Giulia Brolese
Communications Officer
Beatriz Barbado Gutierrez
Administrative Officer