She is an Associate Professor in the academic discipline M-STO/04 Contemporary History. She graduated in Political Science from the University of Siena. In 2006, she obtained her PhD in "Theory and History of Modernization and Social Change in the Contemporary Age" from the same university. She held research fellowships at the University of Siena from 2006 to 2012 and from 2016 to 2019, and was a research fellow at Bocconi University in Milan in 2014-2015 as part of the project "The Great Transformation 1914-1918" funded by the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation. In 2018, she was a visiting fellow at the Historical Archives of the European University Institute with a "Postgraduate Vibeke Sorensen grant" (project: European policies for sustainable mobility). She is a member of the editorial board of the journals "Le Carte e la Storia," "Storia dello Sport. Rivista di studi contemporanei," and "European Studies in Sports History (ESSH)." Since 2018, she has been a member of the 1 Steering Committee of the Italian Society for Sports History. In 2015, she won the SISS "Aldo Capanni" award for sports historiography, intended for young researchers under 35.
Matteo Gerlini, PhD in History of International Relations, is an Associate Professor at the University of Siena. He chaired the International Nuclear Security Education Network, an academic partnership promoted by the IAEA. He has conducted research and lectured at Sapienza University of Rome, Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, and Keio University in Tokyo. He was a delegate of the University of Florence in the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium. In 2020, he was a Taiwan Fellow at National Chengchi University in Taipei. He is currently a member of the ISEG panel in the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme and Scientific Coordinator of the Training in Radiological and International Nuclear Security (TRAINS) project, funded by the OECD-NEA NEST Programme. He is a visiting fellow at the Alcide De Gasperi Centre of the European University Institute, researching the history of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, and a member of the scientific committee of the Master's program in "International Nuclear Safeguards," organized by the Polytechnic University of Milan and the European Nuclear Education Network. He teaches the history of EURATOM in courses of the European Safeguards Research and Development Association (ESARDA) and is a visiting scholar at London Metropolitan University, in the Biological Security Research Center.
Federico Lenzerini is a Full Professor of International Law. He graduated in Law in 1998, obtained his PhD in International Law in 2003, and qualified as a Full Professor in 2017. He is also a lecturer in the LLM Programme in Intercultural Human Rights at St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, USA, and a lecturer at the Tulane-Siena Summer School on International Law, Cultural Heritage and the Arts. He is a consultant for UNESCO (Paris) and has participated in numerous international negotiations on the protection of cultural heritage on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was the Rapporteur of the Committee on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the International Law Association and is currently the Rapporteur of the Committee on the Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the same Association. He has been a visiting professor at numerous foreign universities, including the University of Texas at Austin, Charles University in Prague, St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, the Universities of Wellington and Waikato Te Piringa in New Zealand, Tulane University in New Orleans, the Romanian-American University in Bucharest, and Central European University in Budapest. In 2011, he lectured at the Academy of European Law of the European University Institute in Fiesole and is a member of the editorial boards of the Italian Yearbook of International Law, the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review, and the Cultural Heritage Law and Policy series (Oxford University Press). He has published seven books (including two monographs) and over one hundred academic articles.
Research Areas: Human Rights - Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Asylum Law and Refugee Protection - Protection of Cultural Heritage - International Humanitarian Law
Current Research: National Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Protection of Unaccompanied Foreign Minors - Protection of the Cultural Heritage of Indigenous Peoples - International Law and Implicit Human Rights
Maria Vella is an Adjunct Professor in Economics and Management of the Third Sector. She is the creator and scientific director of LET'S GO, a laboratory for new professions in the Third Sector. She has organized several conferences on the topic of cooperation and the Third Sector, with the participation of institutional and academic representatives of the non-profit sector, to explore the issues, establish agreements, and promote the themes of solidarity and ethics in business. She has provided consultancy services to cooperatives for the preparation of their social reports. Since 2015, she has also been the Director of the Master's program (MUTUASI) in Mutual Healthcare. Since 2007, as an expert in the Economics of Cooperation, she has been a member of the Cooperation Council established by the Tuscany Region. She is the author of university textbooks and, recently, of articles in specialized journals on the growing role of the Third Sector in individual well-being and in the socio-health sector, an area in which she continues her research. She is a member of the Teaching Committee in Social Service Sciences and a tutor for first-year students in the Department of Political and International Sciences.
Research Areas: The disparity of European healthcare systems. Social Welfare models in Europe.
Alessandra Viviani has been a Full Professor of International Law at the Department of Political and International Sciences of the University of Siena since 2019. She graduated in Law from the University of Siena in 1990 and obtained a "Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law" from the University of Oxford in 1996. In the same year, she earned her PhD in International Law with a dissertation titled "Protection of Human Rights and Limits to the Recognition of Foreign Legal Values." She teaches International Protection of Human Rights, European Human Rights Protection, and International Economic Law. She is the Coordinator of the Joint Teacher-Student Committee of DISPI and the Internationalization Contact Person for the same Department. From 2010 to 2016, she was the Rector's Delegate for Internationalization. She coordinates several Erasmus exchange agreements and has been a Visiting Teacher at the Universities of Coimbra and Krakow. Since 2017, she has been the Scientific Coordinator of the PRIMA program at the Santa Chiara Lab of the University and, since 2018, the Rector's Delegate for the same Center. She actively collaborates on training courses for teachers of UNICEF Italy.
She is the author of several publications, including two monographs: "International Crimes and the Responsibility of Political and Military Leaders," Milan, Giuffré 2005, and "Personal Identity in the System of the European Convention on Human Rights," Naples, ES, 2013.
Research Areas: Her work focuses on the international protection of human rights, currently with a particular emphasis on the protection of the rights of children and the norms concerning the right to education and human rights education.
Research Projects: Scientific Coordinator of the "I Have Rights" project, Erasmus Plus KA2 Strategic Partnership School, 2016-1-Fr01-KA201-024133
Graduated in Law from the Carlos III University of Madrid in June 1996. European PhD in Labour Law from the University of Castilla-La Mancha in December 2003. Languages: English and Italian (spoken and written).** Recipient of a "Deeco" scholarship from the Secretaría de Estado de Universidades e Investigación from February to June 1995, to collaborate within the Department of Private Law (Labour and Social Security Law Area) of the Carlos III University of Madrid. Recipient of a scholarship from the Dirección General de Formación Profesional Reglada Educativa from October 1995 to June 1996, to collaborate within the Department of Private Law (Labour and Social Security Law Area) of the Carlos III University of Madrid. Awarded the "Suficiencia Investigadora" qualification with honors (sobresaliente) in September 1998, after completing the doctoral courses at the Carlos III University of Madrid in the 1996-1998 biennium and following the defense of her thesis entitled "El poder disciplinario del empresario en las empresas de trabajo temporal" (The disciplinary power of the employer in temporary employment agencies). Recipient of a scholarship from the "Formación del Personal Investigador" program of the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia from January 1997 to December 2000, she carried out her work within the Department of Private Law (Labour and Social Security Law Area) of the Carlos III University of Madrid. She conducted research at the University of Trento with a scholarship from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (FPI Program), under the supervision of Prof. Carlo Zoli, from October to December 1997. She conducted research at the Universities of Catanzaro and Benevento with a scholarship from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (FPI Program), under the supervision of Profs. Lorenzo Gaeta and Lorenzo Zoppoli, from October to December 1998. She conducted research at Columbia University in New York with a scholarship from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (FPI Program), under the supervision of Prof. Mark Barenberg, from October to December 1999. She was an Ayudante Professor of Labour Law at the Carlos III University of Madrid from 2001 to September 2003. She was a research fellow in Labour Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Siena from October 2005. She was a researcher in the academic discipline IUS 07 - Labour Law - at the Faculty of Law of the University of Siena from December 31, 2008. She is now a tenured researcher in the academic discipline IUS 07 - Labour Law - at the Department of Political and International Sciences of the University of Siena. She became an Associate Professor and in July 2017 obtained the National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale), sector 12/B12, Band 2.