About us

Paolo Vineis

Chair of Environmental Epidemiology at Imperial College (London). Leads the Molecular Signatures and Disease Pathways Theme of the MRC Centre for Environment and Health at Imperial College. Visiting Professor at the Italian Institute of Technology (Genova).

Luca Savarino

Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy and Bioethics, Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont. He is also Member of The Italian Committee for Bioethics. Research fields: moral philosophy, medical ethics, public health, environmental ethics.

Dino Pedreschi

Professor of computer science at the University of Pisa, and a pioneering scientist in data science and artificial intelligence. He co-leads the Pisa KDD Lab – Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory, a joint research initiative of the University of Pisa and the Italian National Research Council – CNR.

Elizabeth Robinson

Director of Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Her research addresses the design of policies and institutions to reduce climate change emissions, protect the environment, and improve the livelihoods of resource-dependent communities.

Marc Palahí

Anthony Fardet

Trained as an agro-food engineer from AgroParisTech, he is now a researcher at INRAE in preventive, sustainable and holistic diets. He has been working in research at the food-health interface. His current focus is on the impact of transformation on the health potential and the “matrix” effect of foods in sustainable food systems, in particular the characterization of ultra-processed foods and food scoring.

Frederica Perera

Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Director at the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health. Dr. Perera is internationally recognized for pioneering the field of molecular epidemiology, utilizing biomarkers to understand links between environmental exposures and disease.

Roberto Buizza

Full Professor in Physics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa.
Expert in weather prediction, Earth-system modelling and climate science, he also serves as Scientific Attaché at the Italian Embassy in London.

Kris Murray

Associate Professor (Lead, Environment and Health) and “MRC Investigator”, MRC Unit the Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara (Gambia). He is also Senior Lecturer of Ecological Health at the Imperial College (London).

Paola Bonfante

Professor Emerita at the University of Torino is considered a pioneer in the field of plant/microbe interactions, and in particular of mycorrhizal symbioses. She belongs to many Academies; in 2021 she received the Adam Kondorosi-Academia Europea Award for Advanced Research.

Michelle Kelly-Irving

Social Epidemiologist – Health inequalities and Inserm Research Professor. Since 2020 she is Director of the Interdisciplinary Federal Institute for Research on Health & Society (IFERISS), University of Toulouse (France). Since 2021 she is Director of the Equity research team at the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse (France).

Rattan Lal

Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science and Director of the CFAES Rattan Lal Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration at The Ohio State University (OSU). He is also Adjunct Professor of the University of Iceland and the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), India.

Stefano Boeri

Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano, architect and urban planner. In Shanghai he is Director of the Future City Lab at Tongji University. Since 2020, he is President of the Scientific Committee of Forestami (reforestation project in Milan).