Rome, 12 April 2021 – Maria Chiara Carrozza it’s the first one female president of National Research Council (Cnr). The historic appointment came with the signing of the decree today by the Minister of University and Research, Maria Cristina Messa: “I want to wish the new president good work and thank the president Massimo Inguscio for the great work done in recent years. With this appointment, the CNR returns to being fully in its organizational and managerial functions, as well as scientific “.
Maria Chiara Carrozza, former minister of education, university and research in the Letta government, has carried out research in biorobotics, biomechatronics and neuro-robotics, and was already the youngest Italian rector: she will remain in office for 4 years. “To be the first woman to lead the country’s largest and most important research center it is a challenge and a responsibility Without precedents. But also a change of pace and perspective “, commented the Tuscan researcher. “I thank the Minister of Mass and the Selection Committee for the trust placed in my person”.
Graduated in Physics at the University of Pisa, with a doctorate in engineering from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, the 56-year-old new president of Cnr, is not only full professor of Industrial Bioengineering and researcher in the fields of biorobotics and biomechatronics, but is a promoter , in the field of neuro-engineering of rehabilitation, what she herself defined “new scientific humanism, in which scientific evidence is the method, but humanity is the goal to make the fragile stronger “.
Maria Chiara Carrozza is also the author of several publications and patents, responsible for European and academic projects, and currently scientific director of the Ircss Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus Foundation. In addition to having taught and conducted research in centers and universities in Italy, Europe, the United States, Japan, South Korea, China.
Always putting at the center of research that technological humanism in which “between man and machine there must be no antagonism and robots must compete with robots and not with human beings “, as a minister, announced today that his main objective” will be to enhance the many potentialities that exist in the Italian research system “.
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