Alessandro Melis holds the distinguished position of the first Endowed Chair Professor at the New York Institute of Technology. He served as the curator of the Italian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia in 2021 and was honoured as an ambassador of Italian Design in 2020-2022 (ADI, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Professor Melis has made significant contributions to the field of research, which is evidenced by over 200 publications, numerous citations in reputable publications, and his keynote speeches at institutions such as the University of Cambridge, MoMA New York, the China Academy of Art, the Italian Institute of Culture in London and New York, Italian Trade Agency, and TEDx. He is the founding director of Heliopolis 21, an international architecture firm based in Italy, England, the United States, Germany, and Mexico.
Telmo Pievani is a Full Professor in the Department of Biology, University of Padua, Italy, where he holds the first Italian chair of the Philosophy of Biologi
