Active Members
These are the profiles of some of our active members. Join the dozens of scholars, scientists and researchers throughout the world supporting the work of SfD!
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Claudio Radaelli
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Professor of Public Policy at University College London https://www.ucl.ac.uk/political-science/. Claudio Radaelli holds a Degree in Economics and Social Sciences (Bocconi University) and a PhD in political science (Florence). In the years 2005-2018, he was Professor of Political Science at the University of Exeter and Director of the Centre for European Governance. Claudio Radaelli has authored 85 peer review articles and authored-edited volumes and special issues on Europeanization, regulation, policy learning, international corporate tax policy, and governance. He co-edited the Handbook of Regulatory Impact Assessment (Elgar) and Learning in Public Policy: Analysis, Modes and Outcomes (Palgrave). Claudio Radaelli was awarded two advanced grants by the European Research Council, one on policy learning (ALREG) and another, PROTEGO, on regulation http://www.protego-erc.eu/project/. In Science for Democracy, Claudio Radaelli works on science and nonviolence, the role of evidence and scientific knowledge in policy processes; on how scientists engage with policy formation; and on policy instruments such as regulatory impact assessment, ex-post legislative evaluation, consultation, and access to regulation and law.
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Federico Binda
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Federico Binda is a researcher in pure mathematics and a passionate pro-European political activist. He is one of members of the Steering Committee of Science for Democracy and he follows the topics of Open Science and Open Access. He is active since 2016 with the Luca Coscioni Association for the Freedom of Scientific Research. Federico Binda works as Assistant Professor at the University of Milan (Italy), and was previously a researcher at the university of Regensburg (Germany). He holds master degrees from the University of Milan (Italy) and the University of Paris XI (France), and a PhD (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) in mathematics. He has been a visiting scholar at the Hausdorff institute for Mathematics (Bonn, Germany), the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Mumbai, India), the Institut Mittag-Leffler (Djursholm, Sweden), the University of Tokyo and the University of Oslo.
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Simona Giordano
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Simona Giordano is a Professor in Bioethics at the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. She is the author of Understanding Eating Disorders, Oxford University Press, Exercise and Eating Disorders, Routledge, Children with Gender Identity Disorder, Routledge, and of the forthcoming Ethical issues in the clinical management of gender diverse children and adolescents. She is editor of Scientific Freedom, with John Coggon and John Harris, Bloomsbury and of Freedom of Scientific Research, Manchester University Press.
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Filomena Gallo
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Filomena Gallo is a Lawyer before the Italian Court of Cassation and she is an expert in legislative issues concerning human biotechnology. For 10 years, she has taught at the University of Teramo. Since 2005, she has promoted and followed most of the legal proceedings that led Italy’s Constitutional Court to declare the unconstitutionality of the national Law on assisted reproductive techniques. She has collaborated with the Ministry of European Affairs and the Italian Drug Agency; she is a frequent commentator on bioethical issues in the national media; and in 2012, she was elected secretary of the Luca Coscioni Association for freedom of scientific research.
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Sofia Todesca
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Sofia Todesca is PhD student in Structural Biology at the International Max Planck Research School for Molecules of Life (IMPRS-ML, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry Munich). She has been Alumna of Collegio Ghislieri since 2015, where she graduated in 2020 in Molecular Biology and Genetics at the University of Pavia. During her university studies she also completed her Diploma in Biomedical Sciences at the University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS Pavia). In the years she has been visitor scholar in many top-level research institutions. Her PhD project is aimed at dissecting both from a biochemical and structural point of view some crucial events concerning RNA metabolism by using high hand techniques such as cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). This allows to visualize the 3D structures of the molecules of life at atomic resolution. Nevertheless, her motto is "May Science help me, while observing the infinitely small, to never forget the bigger picture”.
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Franco Donati
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Franco Donati is a researcher in industrial ecology at Leiden University Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML). His research in industrial ecology concerns the development of tools and methods for data collection and scenario analysis for environmental sustainability and circular economy. He is motivated by the need to increase data access universally as a way to aid society toward sustainability.
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Antonella Succurro
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Antonella Succurro studied physics at the University of Pavia (Italy), where she was also an alumnus of Collegio Ghislieri. She pursued her doctoral studies in particle physics at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), working in Geneva (Switzerland) and Barcelona (Spain). She was a member of the ATLAS collaboration during the exciting times of the discovery of the Higgs boson and considers her training at CERN a fundamental part in shaping her passion for open science and knowledge transfer. Interested in understanding the complexity of life, she continued her scientific career as a researcher in computational biology. Today she is a scientific officer of the West German Genome Center in Bonn (Germany), a national competence center for Next Generation Sequencing.
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Simone Picenni
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Simone Picenni is a PhD student in the ERC project “Truth and Semantics” based at the University of Bristol. He works primarily on truthmaker semantics, semantic paradoxes and formal theories of truth, and his current research interests include proof theory, structuralist theories of science, and meta-ontology. He got a Master’s degree in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the University of Florence and studied at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich. He is deeply fascinated by the great questions of the Enlightenment: how can we characterize rigorous knowledge? How can scientific knowledge contribute to the autonomy of the individual and to the improvement of society?
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Francesca Battista
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Francesca Battista obtained her Ph.D. in Quantum Physics at the University of Lund, Sweden in 2013. She worked as a researcher in Germany and Argentina where she also served as a Physics instructor at the University of Buenos Aires and in international schools. In 2018 she completed the Master’s in Public Communication of Science and Technology at the University of Buenos Aires. Her first book of poems La mujer in-visible was released in 2019, with Ediciones en Danza. She recently moved to the United States to continue her studies in Science Technology and Society at Virginia Tech University. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming, dancing, traveling, and writing on her blog La Fra just said.
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Giulia Perrone
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Giulia Perrone is a research and advocacy officer at Associazione Luca Coscioni and Science for Democracy, and a PhD fellow in International Law at the University of Turin. Her main interests include the intersections between life sciences and human rights law, with particular regard to biomedical development and human biology. Giulia holds a Law degree (LUISS University, Italy) and a LL.M. in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (University of Essex, United Kingdom). The “WHO Bulletin” and “Biolaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto”, among others, contain some of her works.
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Lorenzo Mineo
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Lorenzo Mineo is a SciencesPo graduated in Urban Studies, a Coordinator of the European Citizens’ Initiative StopGlobalWarming.Eu in Italy and France, and is engaged in political campaigning for Eumans, the movement of European citizens for Democracy and Sustainable Development. He is in charge of initiative for democratic innovation in Italy and at the EU level, in collaboration with the Citizens Take Over Europe alliance. He coordinates international activities on drug policies for Science For Democracy.
