IT-POW FAMILIES is proposing a research on the experience and memory of the families of Italian POWs held in Yugoslavia after WWII. The main goal is to study, understand and communicate the history of POWs through 3 family stories (case studies), using the paradigm of microhistory, the methodology of oral history and the tools of public history, and to effectively promote the outcomes among the non-academic society. The personal experience of POW families and the persistence and transmission of trauma through generations have not been studied up to now, thus the project will go beyond the state-of-the-art by giving voice to people that are not directly involved in war operations, but suffer the consequences (especially mothers, wives and children). The aim is to raise European awareness of how WWII had a big influence on the lives of people also years after the end of the war and, in this way, increase the understanding of the situation Europe is facing today (the refugee crisis). The project fits in one of the most relevant European challenges of Horizon 2020: "Europe in a changing world – Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies". My studies have so far been focused on diplomatic, political and military history of the Italo-Yugoslav relations, but not on social history and oral sources. The proposed project, thus, aims to fill not only the state-of-the-art gap of such studies, which are in general very rare in relation to the experience of POWs families, but as well widen my knowledge, ability and skills in the field of social, oral and public history. This will definitely become a big asset and virtue to my portfolio and make me a more competent and complete not only historian, but European citizen as well. In addition, the project intends to make a step forward in the dissemination of scientific results in historiography, since it aims to bring science closer to people and promote the outcomes among the society in an attractive and innovative way.

The treatise "On Dialects" by Gregory Pardos, a twelfth-century archbishop of Corinth, is one of the most important witnesses to the study of the ancient Greek dialects in antiquity and the Middle Ages. The project aims to produce an edition of the text: the first edition since 1811, and the first altogether to be based on all the surviving manuscripts and to be informed by modern text-critical standards. The edition will be prefaced by an analysis of the relationship between the manuscripts; a study of Gregory's sources, his methods as a linguist and as a compiler of earlier linguistic scholarship, and his place in the intellectual context of twelfth-century Byzantium; and an exploration of the transmission and reception of the treatise through an investigation of the manuscripts which preserve it. The data on which the edition will be based – the readings of the manuscripts – will be made freely available in full in the form of an online multi-text edition accounting for the diversity of forms which the treatise takes in the various manuscripts. The project sits at the intersection of several fields: Classics, Byzantine studies, manuscript studies, editorial theory, digital humanities. Methodological advances in these disparate fields will come together in the service of this worthwhile, long-awaited aim. Once published, the edition will establish itself as the state-of-the-art; it will enable further research to be conducted on (among others) ancient dialectology, twelfth-century Byzantine intellectual networks, Classical reception, and debates about the Greek language; and it will serve as proof of concept for a large-scale online multi-text edition. The research will be supervised by Prof. Alexander Riehle, a scholar of Byzantine intellectual culture and editor of Byzantine texts, in Harvard, and Prof. Olga Tribulato, an expert in ancient Greek linguistics and the study of the Greek language in antiquity, in Venice.

This research project seeks to explore possible common NATO and EU strategies to fight Russian hybrid warfare, in the crucial areas of the energy-resources-climate security nexus, taking into account the role of Emerging Disruptive Technologies (EDTs). It adopts an inter-disciplinary and policy-focused approach, integrating 2022 events with economic, political, and strategic studies. The project will focus on the development of strategic thinking in NATO and EU political-military institutions, to evaluate the gap between the strategic competition needs and the energy-resources-climate security policy results. The specific question this project aims to contribute to is: How can NATO collaborate with the EU by leveraging the dual use of EDTs to contain Russian strategic competition, especially in the areas of energy-resources-climate security nexus? Addressing this question will provide a range of empirical, policy, and theoretical contributions. The research has 3 specific objectives: SO1) Study what are the NATO new strategies to deal with the energy-resources-climate security nexus, to provide insights into Alliance support to Europe in the Russian weaponization of these areas. SO2) Analyze how NATO is developing its EDTs strategy to see how the dual use of new technologies can help in the energy-resource-climate security, and so the strategic competition with rivals. SO3) Investigate what could be the strategic possibilities of NATO-EU collaboration and offer innovative strategic possibilities to cooperate with different policy options. This project aims to examine whether and how NATO and the EU may help their member countries to decouple from Russia, at the energetic-resource level, deal with technological disruption in a way that becomes a strategic advantage, and deal with climate change in a way that changes it from a threat multiplier to an opportunity. This research will benefit my career allowing me to go back to work from NATO to academia in Italy.

The "Isotope iMAGing for Ice Core Science" (IMAGICS) project aims at pushing the resolution of water stable isotopes analysis of ice cores down to the millimiter-scale for detecting fast and abrupt climate signals imprinted in the 3D isotopic features of the ice. Recent studies on shallow cores and on snowfalls showed large variability of the snow isotopic composition during buildup of the snowpack. Such spatial and temporal features are then archived in the cross sectional and longitudinal components of the ice core. However, there are no published attempt aimed at investigating whether and how different climate conditions imprint both the horizontal and vertical isotopic composition variability of ice cores. Indeed, such high-resolution features can't be detected with current state-of-the-art techniques like Continuous Flow Analsys coupled to Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS), because the analysis can be performed only on the longitudinal component of the core with limited resolution. Instead, an innovative combination of CRDS and the micro-destructive technique Laser Ablation (LA) can be used to probe the isotopic composition of the ice both vertically and horizontally. An important feature given by LA is that almost the entire sample can be retained after analysis, allowing preservation of the ice for future analysis. IMAGICS will bridge CRDS and LA technologies to develop an innovative analytical framework to study ice cores. After an initial phase focused on coupling optimisation between the instruments, the project will be focused on detecting spatial features of the isotopic composition of real ice core samples from different historical periods. The results of IMAGICS will not only impact on the glaciology and paleoclimate research communities, by providing a better tool to identify past abrupt climate changes, but will also open the possibility to use different CRDS gas analysers with LA systems on different matrixes, such as speleothems and meteorites.

SCI-PHIL provides an in-depth historical and theoretical account of the rise and fall of the ideal of ‘scientific philosophy’ (SP) in Europe from the mid 19th century, when the notion emerged, to the 1930s, with the first international congresses on SP, and WW II, which put an end to the project. It focuses primarily on five geographical areas: France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, England and Italy, with a foray into the Russian context.It is original in two senses: (1) It accounts for a neglected chapter in the history of European philosophy in all its transnational and transcultural scope, as part of a multi-faceted process of articulation of a European intellectual space at times characterized by the conflicting pulls of political nationalism and scientific internationalization and tragically punctuated by two world wars; (2) It focuses on a decisive historical moment wherein the problem of relations between philosophy and the sciences emerged in its current configuration and constituted a burning issue that concerned the very scope and vocation of philosophy itself. Indeed, from the 1930s onwards, with Nazi-fascism and WWII, a sharp fracture between philosophy and science occurred, worsened by the Cold War years. Today, in our age of specialist fragmentation, the stakes in bridging this rift have never been higher. Can philosophy contribute to mending the fragmentation of knowledge or is it destined to merely be one discipline amongst others? More than a century ago, scientific philosophers were asking exactly this kind of question. In fact, SP is not merely an antiquated locution to indicate what we now mean by ‘epistemology’ or ‘philosophy of science’, which are specialized fields in the current academic division of labour. On the contrary, it denoted the high hopes of thinkers who, overcoming the two cultures divide, intended to take seriously the revolutionary scientific breakthroughs and set up a new beginning for philosophy, reshaping its scope and methods.