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Pr Mohamed Banni
Local Chairman
Professor Mohamed Banni is an expert in molecular toxicology, currently serving as a full professor at the Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Monastir, Tunisia. He leads an active research group focused on ecotoxicology, investigating the cellular and molecular effects of environmental contaminants, including emerging pollutants, across aquatic and terrestrial systems.
Prof. Banni holds a university accreditation (habilitation) in molecular toxicology and brings over two decades of academic and research experience. He is also a visiting professor at internationally recognized institutions, including the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" (Naples, Italy), the University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC, France) and the University ULCO (France).
Throughout his career, he has supervised 22 PhD theses and authored over 163 peer-reviewed scientific publications, achieving an H-index of 58 with more than 8700 citations, reflecting the broad impact of his work. His research combines molecular biology, environmental sciences, and toxicogenomics to address current and future challenges in environmental health. Prof. Banni is currently coordinating a set of European-funded research projects, promoting international collaboration in environmental risk assessment and One Health approaches.
Pr Margherita Ferrante
Since 2018, she is Director of the Integrated Cancer Registry Catania-Messina-Enna (RTI, CT-ME-EN). From 2012 to Today she is Director of Environmental and Food Hygiene Laboratory of University of Catania. Since 2016, she is Director of Complex Operative Unit Hospital Hygiene, Policlinico “G. Rodolico-San Marco” of Catania first AOU Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele.
She is certified Auditor thank to the Quality Management Systems Auditor- Quality Management Systems Evaluators Course (40 hours) CERTIQUALITY-Institute for the certification of quality, environment, safety, agri-food, product, socialresponsibility, CE markings, Milan. In 2021, she takes the final exam of the Health Management Course for Managers of Complex Structure , 40-hours, retraining form.
At the University of Catania he has held and still holds numerous institutional roles (Secretary and President of the CdL, Secretary of the Specialization School, Head of AQ CdL Medicine and Surgery, Member of the School of Medicine, Member of the University Didactic Commission, Member and Director of Research Centers Interdepartmental, Memberand President of Competitions, Member and President of Competition Commissions, Member and President of theCommission for Degree Exams, Doctoral Programs and Research Grants and Grants and CTU. From 2017 she is Expert member of the “Environment and Health Task Force” of the Ministry of Health-General Directorate of Health Prevention (09/11/2017).
From 2015 she is Member of the Contaminated Land Technical Commission (CTTC) and of the Interdisciplinary Commission for Wasteand Health (CIRS), national advisory bodies of the Chamber of Deputies. From 2018 she is Member of the Regional Coordination Table of Health and Environment Issues of the Regional Department for Health Activities and Epidemiological Observatory Service 9 “Surveillance and Evaluative Epidemiology” of the Sicily Region. From 2019, she is Member of the regional co-ordination table of Cancer Registers of the Regional Department for Health Activities andEpidemiological Observatory Service 9 “Surveillance and Evaluative Epidemiology” of the Sicily Region.
From 2018, she is Permanent technical table member for research and innovation and development of Sicilian aquaculture. She is a member of IWA, ISEE, IWWG, IUPHE, EUPHA, FESTEM, AISETOV, S.It.I. and has received numerous awards, including the Merli Award for the Environment in 2019.
Contact:marfer@unict.it
ORCID ID 0000-0001-7596-2464.
Dr Domenico Vito
Dr Domenico Vito
PhD engineer, works in European projects on air quality in northern Italy and collaborate as researcher at the Metabolism of Cities Living Lab, Center for Human Dynamics in the Mobile Age, Department of Geography at San Diego State University, San Diego, California.
He has been an observer of the Conferences of the Parties since 2015 – the year in which the Paris Agreement was approved by the parties.
Member of the Italian Society of Climate Sciences (SISC), he is active in various environmental organizations and networks (The Climate Reality Project) and has been active participant in YOUNGO, the constituent of young people within the Framework Convention of Nations Unite in which he took part of various working groups (Energy, Health, Agriculture) and thematic coordinator of two WGs in UNEP MGCY.Member of GACSA Promoter of the blog / YouTube channel HubZine Italia for dissemination on international negotiations and organizer of the Climate Change Symposiums and Climate Social Forum and Coordinator of the International Conference Urban Resilience and One Health 2021.
Scientific Interests: Climate Change, One Health. Community Resilience, Machine Learning, ICT 4 Development, Data Mining
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