Directors of Studies

Directors of Studies are University Lecturers who act as Teaching Fellows of Collegio Volta and, in this role, guide College undergraduates. They meet their students during Freshers’ Week - the first week in October - when they introduce individual University Courses to new College undergraduates (freshers). Directors of Studies are also available to College undergraduates for one-to-one meetings and for advice on choice of topics and supervisors for final year projects and postgraduate Courses (MA or MSc) for further studies. Collegio Volta is specially proud of the fact  that a number of Volta Director of Studies have or have had major roles in University life and government. Notable examples include: R Bottinelli (Deputy Chancellor for Research), S Govoni (Deputy Chancellor for Teaching), G Magenes (Head of Information Technology), C Cinquini (Member of the Financial Board), M Pampanin (formerly Deputy Chancellor for University Estates), G Guizzetti (formerly Deputy Chancellor for Local Development).

 

Angelo Albini,

Chemistry,

Pavia.



Angelo Albini is Professor of organic chemistry and a member of the Department of Chemistry.

His main interest are in synthetic organic chemistry under mild condition, mechanism of organic reactions and the role of intermediates, photochemistry and biological activity.

He is Director of Studies in Chemistry.

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Roberto Bottinelli,

Physiology,

Pavia.

Roberto Bottinelli is Professor of Physiology, a member of the Department of Molecular Medicine and Deputy Chancellor for Research. 

His main research interests is the physiology of skeletal muscle, the understanding and control of muscular contraction at a molecular level and the abnormalities of muscular contractions in selected genetic diseases.

He has also contributed significantly in the area of cell therapy of muscular dystrophy, a severe genetic disease, and provided initial demonstration of the potential of this approach. He is Director of Studies in Medicine (pre-clinical).

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Carlo Cinquini,

Engineering (Construction),

Pavia.

Carlo Cinquini is Professor of Construction Science and a member of the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering.

His main research interest concern topology optimisation with stress constraints, topology optimisation of incompressible media, eigenvalue-based optimisation for isolation devices and aseismic structures.

His most recent topics of research include the optimisation of extreme and advanced materials such as micro and macro-cracked bodies and functionally graded materials (FGM). He is Director of Studies in Engineering (Construction).

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Maurizio Cornalba

Mathematics

Pavia

Maurizio Cornalba is Professor of Algebra and a member of the Department of Mathematics.

He studied at Pisa (University and Scuola Normale Superiore) and at Princeton University. He has taught at Princeton, Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley.

His main scientific interests are in algebraic geometry and complex geometry, with a special focus on the geometry and topology of moduli spaces of curves and of other algebro-geometric entities. He has a side interest in entomology, and especially in bumblebees.

He is a member of the Accademia dei Lincei and a recipient of the medal for mathematics of the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze. He is Director of Studies in Mathematics.

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Antonella Ferrara,

Engineering (Electronics),

Pavia.

Antonella Ferrara is a Professor of Automative and Process Control. She has a first degree and  a PhD in Engineering from the University of Genova, became Associate

Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Pavia in 1998 and a full Professor since 2005 at the Department of Industrial and Information Engineering.

She is a co-Director, together with Giuseppe de Nicolao and Lalo Magni, of the Identification and Control of Dynamic Systems Laboratory (ICDSL). Her research activities are in the area of sliding mode control, with application to robotics, automotive control, and process control. She is Director of Studies in Engineering (Electronics).

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Stefano Govoni,

Pharmacology,

Pavia.

Stefano Govoni is Professor of Pharmacotherapy and Toxicology at the University of Pavia, a member of the Department of Drug Sciences and the Director of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Neuropharmacology of Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases.

His main research interests are in the areas of dopamine receptors, endogenous opioids and neuropeptide transmitters in the context of brain aging and age-associated cognitive impairment and dementias.

Special interests are in the field of Alzheimer Dementia (AD) and specifically the pharmacology of the amyloid protein precursor. He is Director of Studies in Pharmacology.

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Giorgio Guizzetti,

Physics,

Pavia.

Giorgio Guizzetti is Professor of Electromagnetism and Solid State Spectroscopy and a member of the Department of Physics.

His main research interests are photonic crystals and their application in control and manipulation of light propagation, notably localisation of light into ultra-small volume space regions (nanocavities).

Other interesting applications of photonic crystals are the all-optical transistor and the low-threshold laser. He is Director of Studies in Physics.

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G Magenes

Bioengineering

Pavia.

Giovanni Magenes has a first degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pavia and a PhD in Bioengineering from the Polytechnic School in Milan. He carried out post-doctoral research at INSERM in Lyon and at the Universite’ di Provence before being appointed to a Professorship in Biomedical Signal Processing at Pavia.

His main research interest lie in the applications of control theory to biological systems,  modelling eye-head-arm coordination, intelligent biosignal analysis, soft computing methods in biomedical applications and tissue engineering. He is Director of Studies in Bioengineering.

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Mario Pampanin,

Law,

Pavia.

Mario Pampanin is Professor of Law and Cultural Heritage and a member of the Department of Humanities.

His recent research interests are in the conservation area, notably the conservation of trees, woods and forests, not only a traditional economic resource but an important subject in the field of cultural heritage and natural beauty.

This matter is regulated by different branches of law: Forest law but also Environmental law, Town and Country planning law and - more recently - by the rules for Landscape preservation. Thus, a number of important issues in this area require coordination between the land-use planning procedures and the different systems of control. He is Director of Studies in Law.

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Giorgio Rampa,

Economics,

Pavia.

Giorgio Rampa is Professor of Economics at the University of Pavia.

He studied at the University of Pavia (Collegio Ghislieri) and did post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge (Darwin College) where he won the Stevenson Prize of the Faculty of Economics and a Grant from the Adam Smith Fund in 1981. He also won a Prize from the Economists' Italian Society in 1988 for his PhD dissertation.

His teaching and research interests are in the area of Microeconomics. He coordinates two PhD Programmes, the DREAMT Programme at the University of Pavia and the ELI Programme at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IUSS). He is Deputy Director of the Department of Economics and Business Studies. He is Director of Studies in Economics.

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Ethics & Medicine,

Pavia.

M. Giovanna Ruberto is Professor of Bioethics and a member of the Department of Public Health and Experimental and Forensic Medicine.

She directs a the Centre for Bioethics, a local think tank active in bringing major topics of research in the field of Ethics and Medicine to a wide audience in Pavia.

Her main research interests concern the impact of new technologies, including information technology on Medicine.  She is Director of Studies in Ethics & Medicine.

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A Torroni

Genetics

Pavia.

Antonio Torroni is Professor of Genetics, a member of the Department of Biology and Biotechnology and the Coordinator of the PhD Program in Genetics, Molecular and Cell Biology.

He graduated in Biological Sciences at the University La Sapienza of Rome and received his PhD in Genetic Sciences (and Molecular Biology) from the University of Pavia. He was a Postdoctoral fellow and Assistant Professor at Emory University (USA) and subsequently held appointments at the Universities  of Rome and Urbino.

His main research interests include the study of genetic variation in human and animal populations. He is a leading expert in human mitochondrial DNA variation and his studies have provided important contributions to the definition of the origin, evolution and dispersal of human populations as well as the role played by "normal" sequence variation of human mitochondrial DNA in some pathologies. He is Director of Studies in Biology and Biotechnology.

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