Institute

Director - PANIERI GIULIANA - direttore.isp AT cnr.it - Phone: +39 041-2348659

Advisory Board

The Institute Advisory Board (Art. 13, Regolamento Organizzazione e Funzionamento CNR del 2019) consists of the Director, who presides over it, six elected representatives of the researchers and technologists of the Institute and one technical-administrative staff representative.
 
The ISP Advisory Board members are:

. . . . . . . .
Giuliana Panieri

 M.Sclavo (until 2024/31/01)
 C.Barbante (until 2024/30/04)
Warren Raymond Lee Cairns
(Representative of the
Researchers and Technologists)
Pamela Cialli
(Representative of the
Technical-Administrative staff)
Fabiana Corami
(Representative of the
Researchers and Technologists)
Francesco Filiciotto
(Representative of the
Researchers and Technologists)
Angelina Lo Giudice
(Representative of the
Researchers and Technologists)
Angelo Lupi
(Representative of the
Researchers and Technologists)
Francesca Spataro
(Representative of the
Researchers and Technologists)

 

Previous Advisory Board
December 21, 2019 - December 19, 2023
Director: Carlo Barbante
Representatives of the researchers and technologists: Maurizio Azzaro, Fabiana Corami, Federico Giglio, Elena Gregoris, Mauro Mazzola, Rosamaria Salvatori
Representative technical-administrative staff: Alessandro Cosenza

The Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP) of the National Research Council was born on June 1st, 2019 with act n.81 on 31/05/2019 of President Inguscio. The idea of a Polar Institute has its roots in research activities, which have expanded over time, starting from the first years of Antarctic research in 1985. The construction of the Italian base in Antarctica (MZS station) before and the base in the Arctic (DI station) afterwards, has allowed the development of two generations of polar researchers who have made these remote environments their natural laboratory and their home away from home.
 

The mission of the ISP is to contribute to increasing the quality of Italian scientific and technological research in the polar regions, and to provide knowledge on global changes in support of Italian and European environmental policies by the development of new technologies and survey methodologies.

The Institute aims to be a reference point for:

- CNR polar research; as ISP has extensive links to universities as well as national and international public and private bodies. ISP offers multidisciplinary skills and technologies that are essential to studying and protecting the environment;

- scientific personnel, able to make qualified contributions to the National Antarctic Research Programme (PNRA), the Arctic Research Programme (PRA) and European Commission projects through the development of research and monitoring activities;

- interdisciplinary polar cooperation and research, including the development of meetings, publications, research opportunities and complementary activities, and interacting with society;

- the standardisation of measurements and preparation methods to improve the quality of results, and the development of coordinated measures aimed at common research plans and/or general common objectives;

- the training of the next generation of polar scientists.

Fulfilling our mission will allow us to improve our understanding of the climatic changes taking place in the Arctic and Antarctic environments and possible future developments at both polar and global levels. Our studies address research issues related to both the chemical/geochemical and physical aspects of the poles using a multidisciplinary approach to protect these vulnerable extreme environments. The repercussions of climate change on these dynamics are still largely unknown and will require integrated research using long term multidisciplinary methods to understand them fully.

Institute of Polar Science (CNR-ISP)

GIULIANA PANIERI Director

Giuliana Panieri is the new Director of the Institute of Polar Sciences, and her main interests are the study of extreme marine environments and their connections with climate change in the Arctic and elsewhere. For the last 12 years, she has been a full professor of Geology at the Department of Geosciences of the Arctic University of Norway. She has worked at ISMAR CNR (Italy) and at international universities in the USA, Spain, Germany and France. She has served as President of the Biogeosciences Division and Secretary General of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), managing and coordinating numerous national and international projects. Giuliana has published numerous scientific works, has been a book editor, and has been invited several times as a keynote speaker at international conferences. She has led numerous expeditions in the Arctic Oceans. Lately, she has been keen on developing tools for Ocean Literacy and supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals, implementing specific tasks and deliverables within the framework of numerous national and international projects.
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9411-1729    Scopus - Author ID: 56135838100    Loop profile: 835890

E-mail: direttore.isp AT cnr.it
c/o Campus Scientifico - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Via Torino, 155
30172 VENEZIA MESTRE (VE)

 

Previous directors:
Mauro Sclavo - Interim Director (From 1st May 2024 until 31st January 2025)
Carlo Barbante (From 1st May 2020 until 30th April 2024)
Leonardo Langone - Interim Director (From 1st June 2019 until 30th April 2020)

Antonelli Giuseppe ANTONELLI GIUSEPPE - Segretario amministrativo
E-mail: giuseppe.antonelli AT cnr.it

 

 

 

 

Cester Valentina CESTER VALENTINA
E-mail: valentina.cester AT cnr.it

 

 

 

 

Cialli Pamela CIALLI PAMELA
E-mail: pamela.cialli AT cnr.it

 

 

 

 

Cosenza Alessandro COSENZA ALESSANDRO
E-mail: alessandro.cosenza AT cnr.it

 

 

 

 

Di Leo Guglielmo DI LEO GUGLIELMO
E-mail: guglielmo.dileo AT cnr.it

 

 

 

 

Nogarotto Alessio NOGAROTTO ALESSIO
E-mail: alessio.nogarotto AT cnr.it

 

 

 

 

SACCHETTO ALESSIO
E-mail: alessio.sacchetto AT cnr.it

Zanella Jacopo ZANELLA JACOPO
E-mail: jacopo.zanella AT cnr.it

 

 

 

 

Zanotto Emanuela ZANOTTO EMANUELA
E-mail: emanuela.zanotto AT cnr.it

Working Group on International Cooperation

The Working Group "International Cooperation" partakes in and supports the international cooperation activities of ISP. It is made up of 4 members, appointed by the Director. A not exhaustive list of their tasks includes:

  - assist the director in managing the international cooperations in progress;
  - support the preparation and signing of new collaborations and agreements with international institutions;
  - support the director in responding to requests that may come from Ministries and / or national and international organizations with respect to international cooperation;
  - sustain the participation of the Institute in international coordination programs; in particular the EU Polar Cluster, EU Polarnet 2, as well as the national representative role in SAON;
  - collect and provide background information on current developments in the polar regions relevant to/for international cooperation;
  - offer an advisory function to specific requests of the Director in relation to international collaboration.

The WG International Cooperation has the general objective of preserving the wealth of skills and relationships that have been accumulated over the years, favoring a natural generational turnover within the Institute, and at the same time fully developing the function of ISP as a point of reference for the national polar research community towards its international counterparts.
 
Contact: Isp-relazioni-internazionali AT isp.cnr.it
 
The International Cooperation WG of the Institute of Polar Sciences consists of: :

Nicoletta Ademollo       Warren Raymond Lee Cairns
 
Angelina Lo Giudice       Chiara Venier
 
Vito Vitale (Coordinator)

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