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Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics

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Studying street art: An outdoor laboratory for Conservation Science
Studying street art: An outdoor laboratory for Conservation Science

Vallà is hamlet in the town of Riese Pio X that gained fame for a participatory urban regeneration project called The Wallà. In June 2024, a memorandum of understanding was signed with the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics, and Statistics, for the study of the conservation of outdoor mural artworks. Arianna Abbafati and Giovanni Milan shared with us their first field experience, which took place last October.

Hopfield and Hinton win the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
Hopfield and Hinton win the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 ‘for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks’. We asked Professors Achille Giacometti and Guido Caldarelli (Theoretical Physics), and Marcello Pelillo (Informatics) for their comments.

Interdisciplinary Science Rankings: Ca' Foscari in the world's top 250
Interdisciplinary Science Rankings: Ca' Foscari in the world's top 250

Ca' Foscari has been included in the inaugural Times Higher Education Interdisciplinary Science Rankings (ISR) and is recognised as one of the world's top 250 universities for interdisciplinary research in Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, and Physical Sciences.

QS Sustainability, Ca' Foscari in the Italian top 10 of the world ranking
QS Sustainability, Ca' Foscari in the Italian top 10 of the world ranking

Ca' Foscari University of Venice is recognised as one of the leading academic institutions in sustainability. In the QS Sustainability University Rankings 2025, it is ranked 262nd worldwide out of 1,744 universities assessed and 7th in Italy.

Welcome message from Salvatore Orlando, Director of the Department

“Our department has won over 50 European competitions in the last 4 years. We carry out cross-cutting research that intersects issues related to the ecological transition and digital transformation”

Salvatore Orlando,
Director of the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics

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Our research

Research areas

The activities carried out at the Department involve various fields of research, ranging from environmental sciences to informatics and statistics, but also to technologies for the conservation of cultural heritage.

Our research topics intersect the ones related to the ecological transition and to digital transformation, which today are considered essential to the creation of a new, sustainable development of our society and our economy.

Our research — which is often interdisciplinary in its approach — is developed also thanks to collaborations with public institutions and local businesses, and it is financed by public competitions on a regional, national and European level.

Research projects
EXPEDITE - EXPloring opportunitiEs for developing a risk and resilience climate service baseD on blg daTa and machinE learning

Researcher: Andrea Critto, supervisor of MSCA Fellow Marcello Sano
Length: 01/04/2024 - 31/03/2026

Publications

The research conducted at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics involves various areas, including biology, ecology, environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry, chemistry for cultural heritage, environmental engineering, informatics, Earth sciences, and statistics. The bibliographic information regarding the Department’s publications can be accessed through ARCA, Ca’ Foscari’s open-access archive.