Michele Emmer, professor of Mathematics at the University of Rome "Sapienza" until 2015. Member of IVSLA - Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice. His area of interest: PDE and minimal surfaces, relationships between mathematics and arts, architecture, cinema, culture. Member since 1992 of the board of the Journal "Leonardo: art, science and technology", MIT Press. Filmmaker, author of the film series "Art and Math" distributed in many countries. He organizes since 1997 the annual conference on "Mathematics and Culture" in Venice; editor of the series "Mathematics and Culture" and “Imagine Math”, Springer-Verlag; the series "The Visual Mind", MIT press. Books: “Bolle di sapone tra arte e matematica”, 2009, Viareggio Award Best Italian essay 2010; “Numeri immaginari: cinema e matematica”, Bollati Boringhieri, 2011; “Imagine Math 6”, Springer 2018; ”Imagine Math 7”, Springer, 2020; “Racconto Matematico” Bollati Boringhieri, 2019; M. Emmer, M. Pierini, ed. “Soap Bubbles from Vanitas to Architecture”
