Governance

The Head of Department is Prof. Emanuela Dreassi. She represents the department for all legal purposes, ensures its autonomy and cultural unity, and promotes and coordinates its institutional activities.

The Head of Department is responsible for all matters not expressly reserved for the Departmental Council, as well as for those delegated by the Council in the cases and in the manner set out in the University Regulations for Departments.

Steering and self-assessment committee (CIA)

This assists the Head of the Department in preparing the annual report and, to this end, draws up a document setting out the procedures for the allocation of research funds and resources approved by the Department and the effectiveness of the recruitment policies implemented by the Department over the last three years, in accordance with Article 9 of Legislative Decree No. 49 of 29 March 2012.

1. The Policy and Self-Assessment Committee: The Department’s Policy and Self-Assessment Committee is responsible for assisting the Department’s governing bodies in developing policies on resource allocation and in directing scientific research, knowledge transfer, and innovation activities.
2. The Commission draws up, in accordance with the principles and guidelines laid down by the Evaluation Unit, the three-year policy and resource planning document and the document on the evaluation of results, and submits them to the Departmental Council for approval, which then forwards them to the university’s governing bodies. The document bases the criteria for research evaluation on methodologies recognised at national and international levels, whilst also taking into account the evaluation guidelines adopted by the University’s governing bodies for the allocation of resources to the departments.
3. The three-year policy and resource planning document, drawn up in Italian and English, may include the definition and description of specific indicators for evaluating the Department’s research, knowledge transfer and innovation activities, and may also propose an appropriate weighting between these indicators, as well as between them as a whole and those relating to teaching.
4. The Commission, in collaboration with the Head of Department, draws up the report on the Department’s activities during the previous year, which the Head of Department submits to the Council at the beginning of each year for approval and subsequent forwarding to the Vice-Chancellor. To this end, the Commission shall draw up a specific report on the procedures for allocating research funds and resources approved by the Department, and on the effectiveness of the recruitment policies implemented by the Department over the last three years, in accordance with Article 9 of Legislative Decree No. 49 of 29 March 2012.
5. The Commission shall, at least every three years or at the Council’s request, submit a report on the Department’s Sections and Research Units.

Members are: Carla Rampichini, Rossella Berni, Michele Boreale, Leonardo Grilli and Daniele Vignoli

The Council is the Department’s policy-making and governing body. The Director represents the Department and chairs the Council and the Executive Committee in matters falling within their respective remits. The Executive Committee assists the Director and is responsible for all matters not expressly reserved for the Departmental Council, as well as for those delegated to it in the cases and in the manner set out in the University Regulations for Departments.

The Executive Committee comprises:  the Head of Department, who chairs it;  representatives of professors and researchers;  a representative of the technical and administrative staff chosen from among the members of the Council;  representatives of students and PhD candidates, as well as, where provided for in the University Regulations governing the Departments, research fellows, chosen from among the members of the Council. The Executive Committee exercises the following powers: it assists the Head of Department in carrying out his duties.

Members are: Emanuela Dreassi, Renza Campagni, Gustavo De Santis, Elisa Fusco, Ersilia Lucenteforte, Agnese Panzera, Giovanni Poli, Valentina Tocchioni, and Cecilia Verri