Scientific Committee

Maristella Agosti is professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, Italy, where she has started in 1987 the Information Management Systems (IMS) research group which she leads. She is member of the Galilean Academy, Class of Mathematical and Natural Sciences. Advisor of the First and Second Level Degrees in Computer Engineering of the Department (October 2014-present)

Her research interests include information retrieval, user engagement, databases, digital cultural heritage, and data engineering.
She has designed and launched in 1990 the European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR). She has designed and launched in 2005, together with Costantino Thanos and other Italian experts, the Italian Research Conference on Digital Library Systems (IRCDL). She is a member of the Editorial board of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (Springer-Verlag). She has been member of the evaluation team of experts for the Industrial and Information Engineering area of the Italian Research Assessment Exercise (VQR 2004-2010) performed by the National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) (2011-2013).

She has widely published on information retrieval, hypertext information retrieval, annotations of digital content, user engagement, accessing digital cultural heritage collections, data engineering, digital libraries and archives, and their evaluation. She is the 2016 winner of the Tony Kent Strix Award.

Head of Digital Humanities +, SIB

Riccardo Pozzo received his M.A. at Università di Milano in 1983, his Ph.D. at Universität des Saarlandes in 1988, and his Habilitation at Universität Trier in 1995. In 1996, he went to the U.S. to teach German Philosophy at the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America. In 2003, he came back to Italy to take up the Chair of the History of Philosophy at Università di Verona. From 2009 to 2012, he was Director of the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas of the National Research Council of Italy. From December 21, 2012 to February 28, 2017, he served as Director of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage of the National Research Council of Italy. Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on ribbon. Elected full member of the Institut International de Philosophie and chair of the World Congress of Philosophy Beijing 2018 program committee. Appointed member of the H2020 Programme Committee Configuration Research Infrastructures. He has published 8 monographs, 4 critical editions, 5 translations, 19 edited volumes, 53 journal articles, 72 chapters in books, 22 conference proceedings, 181 book reviews, and 43 articles in national newspapers. Reliable H-index not yet available in the Humanities. However, Google Scholar H-index: 8; Scopus Author ID: 6603952553; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riccardo_Pozzo. On Sep. 21, 2015 he appeared on CCTV-News in “Dialogue: Ideas Matter,” moderated by Yang Rui. Born on Jun. 7, 1959, Italian Citizen.