SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
TECHNICAL
ADVISORY BODY
The scientific committee is the technical advisory body of the VIVA program and is staffed by research officers who manage and implement the program.
The scientific committee consists of sustainability experts, chosen on the basis of scientific excellence and operational competence verifiable through qualified scientific production with internationally recognized indicators (ISIs). Members do not have indefinite tenure but remain in office as long as they carry out research activities functional to the program and participate actively. This ensures strong turnover, inclusion and involvement of the interdisciplinary scientific community, responsiveness to needs, innovation, and cultural and scientific renewal. Representation to disciplinary scientific societies, corporations is not an elective title for participation in the VIVA Scientific Committee. All members have no personal economic conflicts of interest.
Scientific coordination is carried out through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research centers. From 2012 to 2015, coordination was carried out by the AGROINNOVA Research Center of the University of Torino and the OPERA Research Center of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza; since 2016, scientific coordination has been carried out by the OPERA Research Center.
ACTIVITIES
ACHIEVEMENTS
AND RESEARCH
- Implementation of research projects complementary to program functionality;
- Organization/participation in professional training programs (training courses, stages);
- Public-private partnerships training for research projects in PSR. LIFE, Horizon2020 and other public and private calls;
- Updating VIVA specifications based on the state of the art of research and sustainable development at national and international levels;
- Updating of VIVA software;
- Realization of conferences, workshops, e-learning;
- Networking with other agronomic and oenological working groups;
- Involvement of stakeholders (consumers, producers, distributors, public administrators);
- Making of communication and information programs guidelines.
VIVA Scientific Committee members
COORDINATORS
PhD – Professor of Agricultural Chemistry, environmental and food risk assessment expert, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
PhD – Researcher and Chemistry teacher, expert on sustainability indicators and agricultural production life cycle analysis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
PhD, expert in the field of sustainability of agri-food supply chains, Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Research projects manager, VIVA indicators and the calculation platform
Expert in impact assessment and environmental certification, Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security – AT Sogesid.
Expert in Green Public Procurement and environmental system and product certifications, Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security – AT Sogesid
Environmental engineer and PhD in environmental sciences, expert in decision support systems and environmental modeling, collaborates with the University of Milan Bicocca.
PERMANENT MEMBERS
Sustainability experts
Professor of Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural Food and Environmental Sciences Faculty, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He has dealt with the effects and persistence of phytosanitary products in food and environment for 35 years and he is author of more than 350 scientific papers.
Professor of Viticulture, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. Viticulture expert, with more than 167 publications on mineral nutrition, natural plant defenses against diseases, DNA analysis for taxonomic purposes, cultivation techniques, viticultural ecology.
Full professor of agricultural economics and rural valuation at the University of Padua. His fields of research: sustainable development and the agri-food system, analysis of the structure and policy of the wine sector.
Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Viticulture, Oenology and Wine Markets (Universities of Bolzano, Padua, Verona, Udine).
Scientific delegate at the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV), where he was President of the Economics and Law Commission. Co-editor in chief of the journal Wine Economics and Policy and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Wine Business Research. He has published over 150 scientific works. He received two OIV prizes as co-author and the Antico Fattore Prize from the Accademia dei Georgofili
Researcher in Food Science and Technology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. She is responsible for research projects concerning the role of oenological adjuvants in relation to both the protein and colloidal matrix. Not only, but also the study of secondary effects on the aromatic fraction and on the sensory profile of white and red wines. She is responsible for researches regarding technologies applied in white winemaking in compliance with the requirements of territorial typicity and new market expectations.
Full professor at the Department for
Innovation in Biological, Agri-food and Forestry Systems
of the University of Tuscia. It deals with issues
relating to environmental sustainability, mitigation of the impact of
global changes, plant protection in agricultural contexts,
urban and forestry, as well as issues relating to biotechnology
applied to agriculture, agro-industry and natural environments,
coordinating and collaborating on national, European, International and national research
projects. He carries out institutional consultancy activities for
numerous large and small Italian companies as well as important ones
National, supranational and international institutions. He is the author of
over 110 scientific publications and patents cited in
main world databases.
