Editorial Board Member for:
Guest Editor of:
Research Topic entitled:
“Neuromorphic Engineering in wetware: achievements and perspectives”
for the journals:
Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Frontiers in Chemistry, Frontiers in Physics, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
The other guest editors are: Prof. Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom), Pasquale Stano (University of Salento, Italy).
Period: 19/12/2024 – 30/11/2025.
Research Topic entitled:
“Recent Advances in Chemical Artificial Intelligence”
for the journals:
Molecules, Biomimetics, Chemosensors, Life, AI, Sci (MDPI).
The other guest editors are: Prof. Jerzy Górecki (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland), David Magri (University of Malta), Pasquale Stano (University of Salento, Italy).
Period: 29 April 2024 – 15 October 2026.
Research Topic entitled:
“Reviews and Perspectives in Neuromorphic Engineering: Novel Neuromorphic Computing Approaches”
for the journals:
Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Chemistry, Frontiers in Physics, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Frontiers in Neurorobotics.
The other guest editors are: Dr. Siegfried Karg (IBM Research, Zurich), Prof. Gyorgy Csaba (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary), Prof. Konrad Szaciłowski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland).
Period: May 2023 – July 2024.
Research Topic entitled
“Approaching human intelligence through chemical systems: development of Unconventional Chemical Artificial Intelligence”
for the journals:
Frontiers in Chemistry, Frontiers in Physics, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
The other guest editors are: Prof. Konrad Szaciłowski (AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland), Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom).
Period: 15 November 2021 – May 2023.
Special Issue entitled:
“Advances in Pattern Recognition - Image and Time Series Analyses - through Fractal Geometry and Complexity Theory"
for the journal “Fractal and Fractional” (MDPI),
The other guest editors are: Dr. Lucas Ribas and Dr. Leonardo Scabini (São Paulo State University, Brasil). Period: November 2023-November 2025.
Chairman
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Chairman for an orals' session at the "1st International Caparica Conference on Science Education" held in Lisbon (Portugal), 4-7 May 2025.
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Chairman for an orals' session at the 5th International Caparica Conference on Translational Chemistry held in Lisbon (Portugal), 9-12 December 2024.
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Chairman for a orals' session at the 6th International Caparica Conference on Chromogenic and Emissive Materials held in Lisbon (Portugal), 8-11 July 2024.
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Chairman for a session entitled "The Contribution of Complexity Science to a Renaissance in Economics" as part of the international conference "Manifesto and Research Frontiers for a Renaissance in Economics" held in Perugia from the 20th to the 21st of June 2024.
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Chairman for a session of orals at the international conference “New Perspectives in Science Education”, online the 13th of March 2024.
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Chairman for a session of orals at the “XLIX Congress of the Physical Chemistry Division of the Società Chimica Italiana”, Turin 4-7 Settembre 2023.
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Chairman for a session of orals at the 5th International Caparica Conference on Chromogenic and Emissive Materials held in Lisbon (Portugal), 3-7 July 2022.
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Chairman of the “Open Day” event titled “Complexity from Physics to Biology” held within the 8th Edition of the Winter School in Biotechnology for the PhD students in Biotechnology of the Perugia University, on the 21st of January 2022.
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Chairman for a session of lectures at the Winter School in Biotechnology organized for the PhD students in Biotechnology of the Perugia University, on the 18th of January 2022.
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Chairman of a session of the Winter School of Biotechnology dedicated to the presentation of the European Strategic Partnership Erasmus+ "CoSy Thinking" on the 17th of January 2022.
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Organizer and Chairman of a lecture titled “Supramolecular Medicine: Crossing the gap between fundamental research and biomedical applications,” Dr Veronica Dodero of the Bielefeld University (Faculty of Chemistry/Organic Chemistry) delivered online on the 2nd of July 2021.
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Chairman for a session of lectures at the Winter School in Biotechnology 2021 for the PhD students of the Università Degli Studi di Perugia (Italy), held online on the 20th of January 2021.
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Chairman for a session of orals at the International Conference “Thermodynamics 2.0” organized by the International Association for the Integration of Science and Engineering and held online from the 22nd to the 24th of June 2020.
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Chairman for a session of orals at the International Conference “New Perspectives in Science Education” in Florence (Italy), 21-22 March 2019.
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Chairman for a session of orals at the WIVACE/BIONAM conferences held in Salerno (Italy), 4-7 October 2016.
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Chairman for a session of orals at the "2nd International Caparica Conference on Chromogenic and Emissive Materials" held in Lisbon (Portugal), 5-8 September 2016.
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Chairman for a session devoted to the Artificial Intelligence in ICAART 2011, 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, held in Rome from the 28th up to the 30th of January 2011.
Member of Scientific Committee
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Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committees of the Webinar "Recent Advances in Chemical AI by Exploring Molecular Systems", supported by MDPI. 24/09/2025. Webpage: https://sciforum.net/event/Topics-42?subscribe§ion=#welcome
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Member of the Scientific Committee of the 17th International Conference on Fuzzy Computation and Applications (FCTA 2025). Marbella 22-24 October 2025. Link: https://fcta.scitevents.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx
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Member of the Scientific Committee of the "1st International Caparica conference on Science Education". Lisbon, 4-7 May 2025.
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Member of the Scientific Committee of the international conference "New Perspectives on Science Education". Firenze, 19-21 March 2025. Link: https://conference.pixel-online.net/NPSE/scientific_scheda.php?uid=5433
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Member of the Scientific Committee of the 16th International Conference on Fuzzy Computation and Applications (FCTA 2024). Porto 20-22 November 2024. Link: https://fcta.scitevents.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx
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Member of the Scientific Committee of the 9th International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk” - COMPLEXIS 2024. Angers (France), 28-29 April 2024. Link: https://complexis.scitevents.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx
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Member of the Scientific Committee of the 15th International Conference on Fuzzy Computation and Applications (FCTA 2023). Rome 13-15 November 2023. Link: https://fcta.scitevents.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx
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Italian Representative and member of the International Association for the Integration of Science and Engineering Honour Committee during the international conference “Thermodynamics 2.0” held in hybrid form in North Carolina, 18 - 20 July 2022.
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Member of the Scientific Committee of the “Fifth International Caparica Conference on Chromogenic and Emissive Materials” held in Lisbon (Portugal), 3-7 July 2022.
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Member of the Organizing Committee of the 8th Winter School in Biotechnology held online from the 17th to 21st January 2022 at the University of Perugia.
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Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fourth International Caparica Christmas Conference on Translational Chemistry held in Lisbon (Portugal), 6-8 December 2021.
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Italian Representative and member of the International Association for the Integration of Science and Engineering Honour Committee during the international conference “Thermodynamics 2.0” held online from the 22nd up to the 24th of June 2020.
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Member of the Scientific Committee of the Third International Caparica Conference on Chromogenic and Emissive Materials held in Lisbon (Portugal), 3-6 September 2018.
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Member of the Scientific Committee of the Complexity Education Project from October 2018 until June 2020.
Activity as Reviewer of projects and papers for Scientific Journals
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Expert Peer Reviewer for Italian Scientific Evaluation (REPRISE list organized by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca) since October 2015.
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Expert Peer Reviewer for the "Israel Science Foundation" in 2025.
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Expert Peer Reviewer for the "Dutch Research Council" in 2021.
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Expert Peer Reviewer for the French “Agence Nationale de la Recherche” (ANR) in 2020.
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Expert Peer Reviewer for the Polish “National Science Centre” in 2016.
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Official Reviewer of the “American Journal of Physical Chemistry” (Science Publishing Group), from the 4th May 2014 up to the 1st January 2018.
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Reviewer for the conference ISCAS 2017: IEEE International Symposium on circuits and systems.
Invited Reviewer for the following journals:
American Chemical Society
Chemical Reviews; Journal of American Chemical Society; Journal of Physical Chemistry; Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters; ACS Nano; ACS Omega; Journal of Chemical Education; Inorganic Chemistry; Langmuir.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Chemical Communications; Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics; New Journal of Chemistry; Analyst; RSC Advances; Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences; Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry; Dalton Transactions.
Royal Society
Royal Society Open Science.
Wiley
Advanced Functional Materials; Advanced Materials; ChemPhysChem; ChemPhotoChem; Systems Research and Behavioral Science; European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry; Chemistry-An Asian Journal; Cognitive Computation and Systems; ChemSystemsChem; Advanced Science; Complexity; Advanced Intelligent Discovery.
Elsevier
Sensors and Actuators; Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis; Chemical Physics Letters; Journal of Molecular Structure; Chemistry and Physics of Lipids; Chemical Engineering Journal; J. Photochem. Photobiol.: A Chem. e B Biol.; Inorganica Chimica Acta; Dyes and Pigments; Scientia Iranica; J. Luminescence; Arabian Journal of Chemistry; Ultrasonics Sonochemistry; Catalysis Today; Colloids and Surfaces A; Biosystems Engineering; Coordination Chemistry Reviews; Obesity Medicine; Egyptian Informatics Journal; Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications; Biosystems; Chemical Physics; Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal; Engineering Applications of AI; Chemical Engineering Journal Advances; Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.
Nature
Scientific Reports; Nature Communications.
CellPress
iScience
American Institute of Physics
Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy; Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
MDPI
Life, Molecules; Symmetry; Electronics; Applied Sciences; Mathematics; Sensors; International Journal of Molecular Sciences; Nanomaterials; Axioms; Fractal and Fractional; Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications; Biomimetics; Information; Optics; Inorganics.
Springer
The Protein Journal; Molecular Biology Reports; Journal of Nanostructure in Chemistry; Journal of Fluorescence; Rendiconti Lincei Scienze Fisiche e Naturali; Brazilian Journal of Physics; Topics in Current Chemistry; Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering.
IOPscience
Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering
The Optical Society
Optics Express
Frontiers
Frontiers in Chemistry; Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience; Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Frontiers in Psychology; Frontiers in Physics; Frontiers in Pharmacology; Frontiers in Nanotechnology; Frontiers in Cognition; Frontiers in Neuroscience.
Taylor & Francis Online
Desalination and Water Treatment; Molecular Simulation.
Bentham
Current Nanoscience; The Open Automation and Control Systems Journal
Hindawi
International Journal of Photoenergy; ISRN Physical Chemistry; Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience; Advances in Mathematical Physics; Complexity.
Science and Education Publishing
Physics and Materials Chemistry; World Journal of Chemical Education; American Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics; Journal of Computer Network
Chemistry Central
Chemistry Central Journal
Old City Publishing
International Journal of Unconventional Computing
de Gruyter
Journal of Time Series Econometrics
Intelektual Pustaka Media Utama
Journal of Education and Learning
Kerman University of Medical Sciences
International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Frontiers Scientific Publishing
Journal of Autonomous Intelligence
Dunker & Humblot
Yearbook for Philosophy of Complex Systems.
Administrative roles and responsibilities
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Coordinator of the Erasmus agreement between the University of Perugia and the Bielefeld University (Germany) since December 2019.
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Quality Manager of the Chemistry Degrees (since December 2019).
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Delegate to the Coordination of the Professional Degree in “Methodologies for Product and Process” at the Chemistry, Biology, and Biotechnology Department of the Perugia University, since June 2024.
Memberships
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Italian Chemical Society (since 2000)
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American Chemical Society (since 2018)
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Italian Society of Chaos and Complexity, SICC (2018)
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Complexity Institute (since 2018)
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CIRIAF: Inter-university Centre for the Research on the Pollution by Physical Agents (since 2008)
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INSTM: National Consortium on Science and Technology of Materials (since 2004).
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Italian Association of Book (December 2013-December 2014).
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Complex Systems Society (2014)
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Italian Photochemistry Group (2001-2010; 2021-...)
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European Photochemistry Association (2001-2010; 2021-...)
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Member of the Chemistry, Biology, and Biotechnology Department of the University of Perugia (Italy) since the 1st January 2014.
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Member of the Chemistry Department of the University of Perugia (Italy) from the 2nd of May 2008 up to the 31st of December 2013.
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Member of the Committee of the Chemistry Courses since the 2nd of May 2008.
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Member of the Committee of Professors for the PhD Courses in Chemistry since the 25th of June 2012.
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Member of the Committee of the Biological Sciences Courses from the 2nd of May 2008 up to the 31st of December 2011.