Prof. Carlos del Valle
University of La Frontera – Chile
Visiting the Department of Communication and Social Research from 16/11/2024 to 16/12/2024
Host professor: Giovanna Gianturco
Make comparative analyses of research results, generate publications and strengthen the relationship between the two doctoral programs currently under a dual degree co-supervision agreement.

 

Prof. Parisa ShokouhiPennsylvania State University – USA
Visiting the Department of Earth Science from 11/12/2024 to 11/01/2025
Host professor: Chris Marone
The Physics of Earthquake Faulting: Learning from Laboratory Earthquake Prediction to Improve Forecasts of the Spectrum of Tectonic Failure Model.

 

 

 

Prof. Pejman Ghanouni
Stanford University – USA
Visiting the Department of Earth Science from 09/12/2024 to 09/01/2025
Host professor: Alessandro Napoli
I am a diagnostic radiologist with expertise in body MR imaging. My research centers on the development of clinical applications of MR guided high intensity focused ultrasound (MRgFUS). I have been the Principal Investigator or co-Director at Stanford University of multi-center trials using MRgFUS to palliate pain from metastases to bone, to treat uterine fibroids, to perform thalamotomy to treat essential tremor, and to treat focal prostate cancer. After completion of these trials, I have established clinical services to treat bone metastases, uterine fibroids, essential tremor, and prostate cancer. Currently, I co-direct clinical trials using MR guided focused ultrasound to treat epilepsy, Parkinson disease, and pancreatic cancer. Because of my record of continued productivity in my research projects and of successful leadership in clinical trials, and my passion for the translation of new clinical applications of high intensity focused ultrasound for improving patient care, I have been designated the Director of the Stanford Minimally Invasive MR Interventional Center and of the Stanford Focused Ultrasound Center of Excellence. I also serve as Chief of the MRI Body Division, Department of Radiology, Stanford University.

 

Prof. Bianca De Stavola
University College London – United Kingdom
Visiting the Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases from 21/09/2024 to 20/10/2024
Host professor: Luigi Palla
Professor De Stavola will be hosted by the Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases. She will deliver a postgraduate course entitled Causal questions and principled answers: an introduction to causal inference in medical research. The course is aimed at doctoral students in Advances In Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Legal Medicine And Public Health, medical and nonmedical students of the School of Specialization in Health Statistics and Biometrics, as well as students from doctoral programmes of other departments (Statistics and Economics). During her visits she will explore opportunities for new collaborations within Sapienza, and will strengthen the existing collaboration with Professor Palla, specifically in applying current causal inference methods to research in nutritional epidemiology.

 

Prof. Elena Semino
Lancaster University – United Kingdom
Visiting the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies from 01.10.2024 to 30.10.2024
Host professor: Margherita Dore
Professor Semino will be hosted by the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies, Sapienza University of Rome. She will give undergraduate and postgraduate lectures in her specialist research areas, including particularly Stylistics – the linguistic analysis of literary texts, and health communication – with a focus on communication about cancer, chronic pain and Covid-19. Professor Semino’s sessions will also familiarise the students with the use of mixed methods approaches to linguistic analysis, especially combining qualitative discourse analysis with quantitative corpus linguistic tools. Professor Semino’s visit will also be an opportunity to explore broader opportunities for collaboration between La Sapienza and Lancaster University.

Prof. Jonathan Culpeper
Lancaster University – United Kingdom
Visiting the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies from 01.10.2024 to 31.10.2024
Host professor: Donatella Montini
Professor Jonathan Culpeper will be hosted by the Department SEAI. He will give undergraduate and postgraduate lectures in two of his specialist research areas: 1) Shakespeare’s language, including an introduction to the corpus-based approach that resulted in the Arden Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language, published by Bloomsbury in 2023; and 2) Pragmatics, including particularly the notions of (im)politeness and reciprocity. Professor Culpepers’s sessions will enable the students to engage with both theory and empirical data analysis. Professor Culpeper’s visit will also be an opportunity to explore broader opportunities for collaboration between La Sapienza and Lancaster University.

 

Prof. Masahiro Yamamoto
The University of Tokyo – Japan
Visiting the Department of Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering  from 25.10.2024 to 25.11.2024
Host professor: Giuseppe Floridia
He is working on the mathematical theory of evolutionary differential equations with time-fractional derivatives. The study of fractional derivatives, which dates back to Leibniz, has recently gained significant attention for its applications in modeling various types of anomalous diffusion, such as those encountered in environmental engineering. However, a solid theoretical foundation in this area has not been yet fully established. The main purpose of his stay is to collaborate with his host to lay the groundwork for theoretical advancements.

 

Prof. Dominique Tremblay
Université de Montréal– Canada
Visiting the Department of Surgery from 26/10/2024 26/09/2024 to 26/10/2024
Host professor: Francesca Romana Grippaudo.
Professor Tremblay’s visit to Sapienza University focuses on sharing advanced techniques for limb reconstruction, particularly in hand surgery and upper limb reconstruction. Her lectures, webinars, and workshops will benefit students, residents, and professionals across various disciplines. Key areas include reconstructive surgery for trauma and tumors, with emphasis on innovative techniques like nerve transfer for tetraplegic patients. Through seminars and specialized sessions, she will provide insights into cutting-edge methods, enhancing understanding of modern plastic surgery. Her visit is expected to make a significant educational and professional impact.

 

 

Prof. Peter Stokes
École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université PSL – France
Visiting the Department of Italian Institute of Oriental Studies from 12/09/2024 to 12/10/2024
Host professor: Luca Milasi
The main purpose of the visit is to promote exchange about transversal palaeography, especially digital and computational methods applied to different writing systems. This also includes studying original manuscript sources from different dates and regions to analyse the palaeography, to better understand the methods in different traditions, and to plan future collaborative research. This involves discussion with colleagues and research students, as well as two lectures from the Visiting Professor, “Paleografia digitale e computazionale” and one on “intelligenza artificiale applicata allo studio delle discipline umanistiche”.

 

Prof. S. Mahmoud Taheri
University of Tehran – Iran
Visiting the Department of Economics and Social Sciences from 01.10.2024 to 31.12.2024
Host professor: Pierpaolo D’Urso.
Activity regarding fuzzy clustering and fuzzy regression.

 

 

 

Prof. Adrian Vasile Horodnic
Grigore T. Popa’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy– Romania
Visiting the Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance from 01/10/2024 to 31/10/2024
Host professor: Giuseppina Guagnano
Specification and estimation of models for identifying the main determinants of the propensity to make informal payments in the healthcare sector.

 

Prof. Tribikram Kundu
University of Arizona – USA
Visiting the Department of Structural and Geotechnical Engineering from 12/09/2024 to 11/10/2024
Host professor: Annamaria Pau
Carrying out collaborative research on nonlinear ultrasonics.

 

 

Prof. Raffaele Mezzenga
ETH Zurich –Switzerland
Visiting the Department of Chemistry from 01/10/2024 to 30/10/2024
Host professor: Iolanda Francolini
 

 

 

Prof. David Casas
Spanish National Research Council | CSIC, Institute of Marine Sciences – Spain
Visiting the Department of the Earth Sciences from 01/10/2024 to 30/10/2024
Host professor: Daniele Casalbore
It is proposed to address the analysis of the submarine landslides hazard through the study of the characteristics of the slopes and the triggering factors in an extension of the continental margin of the western Mediterranean.

 

Prof. Dorian Lamis
Emory University School of Medicine – USA
Visiting the Department of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Sensory Organs from 20/11/2024 to 21/12/2024
Host professor: Maurizio Pompili
He will spend one month conducting research exploring the role of adverse childhood experiences (e.g., maltreatment) in suicide risk among individuals diagnosed with serious mental illness. One of the primary goals of this collaborative effort is to advance our understanding of suicidal behaviors in psychiatric patients through incorporating cultural considerations into suicide prevention, assessment, and intervention. He will also hold several informative lectures and seminars on evidence-based suicide risk assessment/treatment and psychosocial intervention approaches to reducing psychiatric symptoms in high-risk patients.

 

Prof. Claudio Brozzoli
IMPACT - CRNL – France
Visiting the Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology and Health Studies from 23/09/2024 to 22/12/2024
Host professor: Anna Borghi
The main purpose is to strengthen the collaboration for studying the sensori-motor foundations of language processing and production. We also aim to set-up as well as acquire new experimental data and empirical evidence on the link between language and sensorimotor processes. I will take part to the didactic activity ad scientific animation whenever possible and requested.

 

Prof. Maria Helena do Nascimento Souza
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
Visiting the Department of Neuroscience from 02/09/2024 to 02/10/2024
Host professor: Donatella Valente
The main objective of this visity is to promote exchange between teachers and to validate a scale to measure health university students’ breastfeeding knowledge and practices in the Brazilian context. The development of this new tool includes literature-based processing, content validity with the support of a group of experts, construct validity, and scale reliability.

 

Prof.ssa Simone Helena Tanoue Vizioli
Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo – Brazil
Visiting the Department of History, Design and Restoration of Architecture from 02/09/2024 to 30/11/2024
Host professor: Alfonso Ippolito
Development of activities related to the research project “Protocol for 3D digital mapping (photogrammetry and laser scanning) from international experiences”.

 

Prof. Costas Panayotakis
University of Glasgow – United Kingdom
Visiting the Department of Letters and modern Cultures from 1/09/2024 to 30/11/2024
Host professor: Claudio Giammona

Prof.ssa Cintia Russo
University of Buenos Aires – Argentina
Visiting the Department of Methods and Models for Economics, Territory, and Finance from 1/10/2024 to 31/12/2024.
Host professor: Donatella Strangio.
Professor Russo will conduct a joint research entitled: “Companies territory and technology transfer: the role of Italian immigration in Argentinean development (1880-2022)”.

Prof. Paolo Craievich
Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) – Switzerland
Visiting the Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering from 02/09/2024 to 02/10/2024
Host professor: Enrica Chiadroni
The Visiting Professor will engage in numerical studies for the implementation of an advanced transverse deflecting cavity (PolarX) essential for characterizing the 6D phase space of the electron beam in innovative plasma-based accelerators like those being developed in the EuPRAXIA Project. Additionally, he will actively contribute to the writing of the Technical Design Report for the EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB project, focusing on virtual diagnostics and aiding in finalizing the executive layout of the machine.

Prof. Felice Torrisi
Imperial College London – United Kingdom
Visiting the Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering from 07/09/2024 to 06/10/2024
Host professor: Isabella Chiarotto
Collaboration with Prof. Isabella Chiarotto and Maria Cristina Larciprete on two-dimensional functional materials for thermal management and energy.

Prof. Robert J. Coplan
Carleton University - Canada
Visiting the Department of Psychology of developmental and socialization processes from 31/05/2024 to 29/06/2024
Host professor: Stefania Sette
During the research visit, he will conduct two lectures at the Department focused on the costs and benefits of solitude from childhood to adolescence and the development of shyness in childhood. During his visit, we will also aim to develop a theoretical and empirical model to understand links between time spent alone, the type of solitary activities, negative and positive outcomes related to the experience of time spent alone, and motivations for social withdrawal. This primary aim will lead to writing a research paper using the data collected during years of collaborations, writing a research grant proposal to start a new data collection, and meetings with colleagues/students.

Prof. Nurcan Buduneli
Ege University – Turkey
Visiting the Department of Periodontology from 1/05/2024 to 31/05/2024
Host professor: Umberto Romeo
The main purpose of the visit is teaching and also collaboration in research. The available literature on the possible detrimental effects between periodontal diseases and T1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) will be thoroughly investigated and a systematic review will be written with this scope to have a clear view on the available information. Then clinical periodontal findings in Turkish and Italian patients with T1DM will be comparatively evaluated. Thus, the planned visit has two components: teaching and research. There are two estimated outcomes: a systematic review paper and a cross-sectional study with clinical periodontal parameters.

Prof. Stefano Stramigioli
University of Twente – Netherlands
Visiting the Department of of Computer, Automation and Management Engineering from 25/02/2024 to 24/03/2024
Host professor: Antonio Franchi
Prof. Stamigioli will teach a course on physical modelling and control. This will include the proper mathematical background relating to linear algebra, tensor calculus, and differential geometry, which is needed to properly discuss duality in the nonlinear physical setting. The presented material will introduce the main concepts used in port-Hamiltonian system theory and bond graph notation. When dealing with the modelling and control of physical systems, such as robots, it is essential to understand what is dictated by physics and what is merely a consequence of the user’s choice of coordinates. For this reason, there will be a strong emphasis on coordinate-free thinking and tools.

Prof. Alejandro Fernandez-Martinez
ISTerre, CNRS & Univ. Grenoble Alpes – France
Visiting the Department of Earth Sciences from 1/04/2021 to 30/04/2024
Host professor: Laura Medeghini
The main scope of the stay is to pursue the understanding of the mineralogy and geochemistry of ancient Roman mortars. These interesting objects of study, due to their excellent durability, are being studied using multiple physico-chemical characterization techniques. These include high-energy synchrotron X-ray analyses, that allow deciphering the local order of the disordered phases in the mortars. The visitor will give lecture on these techniques and their application to Portland cements, carbonated cements and to poorly crystalline minerals of environmental relevance.

Prof. Patrizia Di Monte
Gravalosdimonte – Spain
Visiting the Department of Civil, Building, and Environmental Engineering from 8/04/2024 to 8/05/2024
Host professor: Marichela Sepe
Prof. Di Monte will develop innovative and experimental projects, promoting urban regeneration and sustainable urbanism.

Prof. Rita Borromeo Ferri
University of Kassel – Germany
Visiting the Department of Mathematics from 1/09/2024 to 21/10/2024
Host professor: Annalisa Cusi
She will deepen her core research topics: Mathematical Modelling (teacher) education, interdisciplinary STE(A)M Education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) for mathematics teachers and learners, learning how to teach Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) through Mathematical Modelling and Interleaved practice for teaching mathematics. On these topics, she will work with her colleague Prof. Annalisa Cusi. They will compare the German and Italian perspectives of the state-of-the-art research and current situation of the syllabus of both countries for school and mathematics teacher education, especially in the fields of ESD and interdisciplinary STE(A)M education. Furthermore, she will also conduct workshops regarding the above-mentioned topics.

Prof. Chiara Neto
University of Sydney – Australia
Visiting the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from 10/06/2024 to 10/07/2024
Host professor: Alberto Giacomello
Prof Chiara Neto will conduct research on new nanostructured surfaces in collaboration with Prof Alberto Giacomello and his group. These new materials, called slippery covalently-attached liquid surfaces (SCALS), have important applications in the field of fouling reduction and atmospheric water collection. SCALS are also the subject of important fundamental questions, because the mechanism that induces their quasi-liquid state is not yet known. During the visit, Prof Neto will meet PhD students, researchers and colleagues in the department to explore further collaboration opportunities.

Prof. Paolo D’Odorico
University of California, Berkeley – USA
Visiting the Department of Civil, Building, and Environmental Engineering from 19/05/2024 to 30/06/2024
Host professor: Elena Ridolfi
Research collaboration on the study of spatiotemporal patterns of drought occurrence in the global croplands, based on historical records and climate change scenarios.

Prof. William Calvo-Quiros
University of Michigan – USA
Visiting the Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes from 11-05-204 to 15-08-2024
Host professor: Silvia Cataldi
Research on family;s acceptance of queer members. Studying the impact of love, care and acceptance on the quality of life of queer children and young adults.

Prof. Alejandro Cifuentes
National Research Council of Spain – Spain
Visiting the Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technologies from 25/05/2024 to 24/06/2024
Host professor: Luisa Mannina
Prof. Cifuentes will conduct 20 hours of teaching aimed at doctoral students. The lectures will cover: Foodomics in Food Science and Nutrition; Detection of new biomarkers related to food’s effect on health (especially colon cancer and Alzheimer’s); Characterization of functional ingredients from natural sources (plants, algae, microalgae, food by-products) by separation techniques (CE, HPLC, GC, LCxLC) and their coupling to MS, as well as by in vitro assays; Chiral molecules as food-quality markers; Detection of food pathogens, species, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs, transgenic foods) by molecular techniques in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.

Prof. Kenneth A. Dodge
Duke University – USA
Visiting the Department of Psychology from 30/04/2024 to 30/05/2024
Host professor: Concetta Pastorelli
He will provide lectures and discuss the development of aggressive behavior in children, its prevention, and the impact on the population of preventive interventions for families with young children(age 0-3).
He will provide consultation on research and intervention. He will be involved in examining data from an international longitudinal study including nine countries (Parenting Across Culture), aimed at analyzing parenting practice and children’s adjustment. He will contribute to analyzing the role of both children and parents’ personality characteristics and their interaction on adolescents’ adjustment.

Prof. Ricardo Daziano
Cornell University – USA
Visiting the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering from 11/05/2024 to 24/08/2024
Host professor: Tiziana D’Alfonso
He will study user preferences toward electrification of buses.

Prof. Luiz Felipe Cavalcanti Pereira
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Visiting the Department of Physics from 01/01/2024 to 30/03/2024
Host Professor: Prof. Francesco Mauri
During this research visit we will combine state of the art computational techniques, some of which developed by Prof. Mauri and collaborators, to investigate the heat transport properties of novel materials, both individually and in combination to form larger structures. Our main objective is to understand the fundamental heat transport characteristics of novel low-dimensional materials, including anharmonic effects, in order to identify potential candidates for practical applications in heat management and thermoelectric devices.

Prof. Valerio Schiavoni
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Visiting the department of Physics from 16/01/2024 to 16/02/2024
Host Professor: Prof. Leonardo Querzoni
The visit will initiate the work towards the design of a multi-tee trustworthy runtime for smart contracts, a fundamental building block for next-generation confidential distributed systems. We intend to design a secure, portable and upgradable smart contract runtime with full support for multi-TEE deployments. To achieve this, we plan to develop new libraries and tools to leverage heterogeneous Trusted Execution Environments (e.g., Intel SGX, Intel TDX, Arm TrustZone, AMD SEV) for blockchain.  We will overcome the technical challenges by leveraging WASM, building atop our previous work for secure execution of WASM in Intel SGX and TrustZone. The research activity will kick-off the development of the required libraries to deploy and run a smart contract across nodes with diverse TEEs.

Prof. William Giannobile
Harvard University, USA
Visiting the Department of Odontostomatological and Maxillofacial Sciences from 31/01/2024 to 18/02/2024
Host Professor: Umberto Romeo
To visit the departments of periodontology and oral and maxillofacial surgery.  I will provide lectures and discuss the fields of periodontolgy, regenerative medicine, precision medicine.  I will interact with faculty members, students, and graduate students in these disciplines, providing lectures and consultation on their research, clinical and didactic components of their programs. I will interact with Prof. Andrea Pilloni and Prof. Umberto Romeo in the host departments.

Prof Augusto Dal Pozzo
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
Visiting the department of Law from 10/01/2024 to 10/01/2026
Host Professor: Prof. Ines Ciolli
This investigation aims to identify the main interconnections existing in Italian doctrine between Constitutional Law and Administrative Law. On the basis of an analysis which inevitably has a historical dimension, it will be possible to develop comparisons with Brazilian dynamics, as already mentioned in the introduction. For a correct understanding of the subject, it is essential to examine the public structures that make up the Italian constitutional state - the state powers and the administrative entities.
The objective is to build a transversal line of reasoning and research between the two spheres, underlining the epistemological unity that runs through public law. An institutionalist perspective will be adopted.

Prof. Sabine R. Huebner
University of Basel, Switzerland
Visiting the Department of Classics from  10/06/2024 to 10/07/2024
Host Professor: Prof. Dr. Alberto Camplani       
While at La Sapienza I wish to make progress on my book project, a monograph the Roman province of Egypt in the third century CE, for which I plan to collaborate with Prof. Alberto Camplani, who also has his main research focus on this critical and decisive century. The combined analysis of papyri, literary sources, archaeological remains, and coins with bioarchaeological and environmental data promises an entirely new perspective on the transition period from the High Roman Empire to Late Antiquity. I also to edit a volume based on the proceedings of a conference held at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome on May 11/12, 2023 will be entitled Urban Transitions in Roman Egypt from the Third to the Fourth Century CE in which Prof. Camplani was involved and which will come out in the Pragmateia series edited by Prof. Maiuro and Prof. Lo Cascio. The volume purports to demonstrate the relevance of Egyptian urbanism to the transition of the Roman world into Late Antiquity.

Prof. Michael M. Swift 
University of Wisconsin—Madison, United States 
Visiting the Department of Biology and Biotechnologies Charles Darwin from 16/02/2024 to 15/05/2024
Host Professor: Prof. Daniele De Sensi
Prof. Swift will work with Drs. Daniele De Sensi and Salvatore Pontarelli on using SmartNICs, network interface cards with the ability to do arbitrary computation, to offload operating system work to support memory tiering

Prof. Mark Van Vugt
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Visiting the Department of Psychology from 04/03/2024 to 03/04/2024
Host Professor: Prof. Salvatore  Aglioti  
Bridging neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary approaches to leadership and organizational behaviour.