Ph.D, assistant professor in the area VET04, Inspection of food of animal origin, at the Department of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Pisa. Master’s Degree in Biological Sciences and Ph.D in “Animal productions and food hygiene in Countries with Mediterranean climates” (University of Pisa). He is the scientific manager of the Sino-Italian Centre for Food Safety (CSISA) and lecturer in the course of “Hygiene, industry, inspection, quality control and certification of food of animal origin” for the long-cycle degree in Veterinary Medicine and in the “Food Safety” course for the master degree in Biosafety and food Quality at the Department of Agricultural Sciences. Author of research papers published in national and international peer-reviewed journals and of chapters in national and international text-books.

COURSE: Food processing and food safety

Diego Calaon is a post-classical archeologist. He is the site director of archeological project in Torcello (Venice, Ca’ Foscari University – Stanford University). In the last ten years, he has  worked as site director in several archeological projects in the Venice Lagoon Area (San Giacomo in Palduo, San Lorenzo d’Ammiana, Torcello) and in the upper Adriatic (Comacchio). He has also been actively involved in the Venetian colonial project in Dalmatia (“Stari Bar Project” in Montenegro and “The Heritage of Serenissima” in Croatia).

He was awarded the prestigious Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship by the European Community in 2014, for his three-year project “Voices of Venice” to pursue his research in the anthro-ecological reappraisal of the Origin of Venice. Stanford University will host him for this investigation. He is also an associate researcher on the “Mauritian Archeological and Cultural Heritage project” in the Indian Ocean (M.A.C.H). Through this project, he has expanded his global and colonial expertise with reference to the reconstruction of the past, going beyond the classic chronological boundaries set by Italian and European training systems. Methodologically, his archeological research has focused primarily on landscape and seascape transformations during the Early Middle Ages in the Adriatic region. Using GIS and a holistic approach to data management, he has worked on the impacts of both short and long term ecological changes, focusing on maritime and coastal activities.

After a degree in communication sciences at the University of Rome, she obtained a master’s degree in communication of typical and organic food at the University of Siena. She began her career in Paris, where she lived for two years working for an events organization agency; on returning to Italy,  she worked freelance in training and consulting in food marketing and became Deputy Director of the National Association of Wine Cities and General Secretary of the wine cultural route at the Council of Europe’s Iter Vitis, Les Chemins de La Vigne, specializing in the promotion of rural areas historically related to wine production.

She has worked for the promotion of Italian wine abroad, particularly in countries such as India, China and Russia with training activities targeted at buyers and opinion leaders. Since 2010 she has lived in Sicily permanently, having decided to dedicate herself to the region which has seen the greatest representativeness and unexpressed potential towards foreign markets. For the last two years she has been Director of the Strada del Vino dell’Etna and a Vice-president of the Strade del Vino di Sicilia. She is the General Manager of the Gambero Rosso in Sicily: a culinary school and events.

 Courses: Mediterranean Kitchen Basics: theory and techniques