Luigi Amodio is Director of the Science Center of the City of Science in Naples. He taught at the University of Naples "Federico II" and still teaches in the Masters in Scientific Communication of the University of Milan Bicocca and in the Master in advanced studies of museum education at the University of Rome 3. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of ECSITE, the European network of science centers and science museums; he is also an elected member of the Kuratorium (Board of Trustees) of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and of the Board of the Campania Coordination of ICOM.

Silvia Benvenuti is a researcher at the University of Camerino. She is a mathematician expert in non-Euclidean geometry and science popularizer. He is a member of the scientific committee of Matematita, Interuniversity Research Center for Communication and Informal Learning of Mathematics. He has collaborated and participated in the television broadcasts Geo & Geo, Geo Magazine, Geo Scienza (Rai 3). Among other things, she is the author of “Salads of mathematics 3. Seven variations on art, design and architecture”, Sironi publisher, 2010.

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón is a lecturer in mathematics at the University of La Rioja in Spain and also holds a degree in Theology. He develops his research in the area of computational algebra, to which he contributed with numerous research articles and important collaborations with European scientists. It carries out an intense activity of popularization of mathematics through conferences, shows and workshops for people of all ages. Winner of the Fame Lab 2013, he is one of the founders of the Big Van - Cientificos sobre Ruedas group, itinerant scientific monologists committed to spreading the love for science.

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He is director of the microbial biotechnology laboratory at the Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources of the CNR in Naples. He has published over 40 papers in peer reviewed journals, 5 patents and two copyright marks. Since 1998 he has been involved in the public debate on the validity of GMOs. He is a frequent guest on radio, TV and newspapers with interventions on GMOs, biotechnologies and scientific research. He is the author of some books.

He is a STEAM researcher in the Trans- and Multidisciplinary Learning and Contemporary Cultural Studies area at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. He is vice president of the Bridges Organization, the world's largest community of mathematicians, artists and education professionals. Since 2016 he has been a member of the Raising Public Awareness Committee of the European Mathematical Society, while from 2013 to 2017 he was Chief Executive Officer of the International Symmetry Association. Since 2008 he has been director of the Experience Workshop — International Math-Art Movement for Experience-oriented Education of Mathematics project.

Pietro Greco is a science journalist and writer. Graduated in chemistry, he is Academic Correspondent of the Humanistic and Scientific Discipline Classes of the Academy of Drawing Arts in Florence. He is a founding member of the IDIS-City of Science Foundation of Naples. In 1993 he founded the Master in science communication at the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, of which he was deputy director from 1997 to 2001 and director from 2001 to 2009. In 2010 he founded, with Andrea Cerroni, the Master on Communication of Science and Sustainable Innovation at the University of Milan Bicocca; of which he is scientific coordinator. He is a member of the MIUR working group for the development of scientific and technological culture. Since 2003 he has been conductor, together with others, of the radio program Radio3Scienza and is one of the most prolific Italian authors of scientific books.

Angelo Guerraggio is full professor of General Mathematics at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Insubria in Varese, as well as holder of the course of General Mathematics at the Bocconi University of Milan. He is director of the PRISTEM Research Center (Historical and Methodological Research Project) which he founded in 1987 at the Bocconi Institute of Quantitative Methods. He received the International Pythagoras Prize in Crotone in 2005 and in 2007 he was designated by the Italian government as national representative for the Committees of the 7th Framework Program of the European Union. He was among the curators of the Mateinitaly exhibition, first hosted at the "Triennale" in Milan (autumn 2014) and then at the "Muse" in Trento (winter-spring 2016). Ѐ author of more than 130 publications.

Roberto Natalini is currently the acting director of the "Mauro Picone" Institute for Calculation Applications of the CNR. He is a mathematician and his main scientific interests concern the study and approximation of nonlinear partial differential equations and their applications which include biology, conservation of monuments, traffic and gas dynamics. Coordinate the information site MaddMaths! (http://maddmaths.simai.eu/) and directs the magazine Archimede. Together with Andrea Plazzi he is responsible for the Comics & Science project (events in Lucca Comics and CNR series). Since 2015 he has been chairman of the commission

of the European Mathematical Society for the public promotion of mathematics.

Andrea Parlangeli is a physicist and journalist, editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Focus. He graduated from the Scuola Normale in Pisa and received his doctorate from Radboud University in the Netherlands. His areas of work and research range from journalism to communication, from the environment to energy, from technology to marketing. Winner of prizes as a communicator of science, he has written several books, including A pure spirit - Ennio De Giorgi, genius of mathematics (Milella 2015), Welcome to the Anthropocene (Mondadori 2005) with the Nobel Prize Paul Crutzen, The imperfect birth of things (Rizzoli 2016) by Guido Tonelli and the recent The hidden music of the Universe (Einaudi 2018).

Giovanni Torchia, with a degree in Natural Sciences, has worked as a marine biologist collaborator, expert on the subject, for the University of Genoa in the field of research on fishing, coastal fish fauna and pelagic ecosystems of the upper Ligurian Sea; in 2001 in Tunis he played the role of Marine Biologist Expert for the United Nations (UNEP); from 2003 to 2009 he worked as Scientific Director of the Nautilus Cooperative. He works at Golder Associates, where he coordinates and manages environmental studies, marine environment monitoring and environmental protection plans in various countries of the world, mainly in Europe, Africa and Asia. He is co-author of 65 scientific publications in national and international journals.

Anna Ascenzi (UNIMC) is Full Professor of History of Education and Children's Literature at the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism Sciences of the University of Macerata. He is director of the “Paolo e Ornella Ricca” School Museum and since 2012 he has also directed the Documentation and Research Center on the history of school books and children's literature. He is also director of the editorial series «History of educational institutions and children's literature» (Franco Angeli, Milan) and member of the Board of Directors / Executive Council of the international scientific journal «History of Education & Children's Literature», (ISI / Scopus, http://www.hecl.it/). He has published several volumes and numerous contributions on the history of disciplinary teaching and textbooks.

Alessandro Bogliolo (UNIURB) is professor of Information Processing Systems at the University of Urbino, where he teaches and carries out research in the fields of bioinformatics, collective intelligence, sensor networks, low energy consumption electronic systems. Before arriving in Urbino he worked in Bologna, Stanford and Ferrara. Since 2013 he has been involved in the dissemination of computational thinking and coding. Since 2015 he has been coordinator of the European Code Week initiative. Since 2017 he has been a member of the governing board of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition and delegate of the rector of the University of Urbino for scientific dissemination and public engagement. With Giunti Scuola he published "Coding in Your Classroom, Now!" (2016) and "The Coding Diary" (2017). For RAI he is the author and host of the programs "Coding" (2017) and "Cody Games" (2018) and collaborates with the Digital Worlds program.

Ian J. Bruce (ITTS MONTANI) is Emeritus Professor of Nanobiotechnology at the University of Kent in Canterbury (UK) and is Research Director of the Faculty of Science, Mathematics, Technology and Medicine. Graduated in Genetics and Microbiology in 1978 from University College London, where in 1982 he also obtained a PhD in Genetics. From 1982 to 1984 he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the same University working on yeast genetics, and then continued research at Guy's Hospital London in the Paediatrics Research Unit working in the field of human genetics. In 2007 he was awarded an honorary degree in Industrial Biotechnology by the University of Urbino in recognition of his contribution in this new field of research, in particular, for his work, for his publications and for his role in development of new companies working in the sector.

Alessio Cavicchi (UNIMC) is associate professor of Agri-food Marketing and Agribusiness at the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism of the University of Macerata. His research activity is mainly aimed at analyzing consumer choices in the markets of typical and quality products, sustainable tourism and innovation in the agro-food sector. He has published in numerous books and magazines and is a member of the scientific board of "British Food Journal", "Sustainability" and "Agri-food Economy - Food Economy". He is Managing Editor of the American indexed magazine Scopus and ISI, “International Food and Agribusiness Management Review”. He is co-editor of the Book Series “Consumer Science and Stategic Marketing” published by Elsevier. He is an external expert of the MIUR's "Planning and promotion of research in the international context" office.

Pippo Ciorra is full professor of architectural design at the University of Camerino, architect, critic, curator, and has been collaborating since 1981 with newspapers, magazines and radio stations. He is the author of many essays and publications. Among the best known, Without architecture, the reasons for a crisis (Laterza, 2011). Member of the editorial committee of Casabella from 1996 to 2012, he is also the author of essays, monographic studies and texts on the city and on contemporary Italian architecture. He is director of the Villard d'Honnecourt international doctorate and of the Villardjournal magazine. He has curated and set up exhibitions in Italy and abroad; since 2009 he has been senior curator for architecture at MAXXI, where he curated, among other exhibitions (Re-cycle, Energy, Food, YAP_MAXXI, Piccole Utopie, The Japanese House, Bruno Zevi). He is co-curator of Demanio Marittimo km 278, an annual nocturnal event dedicated to architecture and other arts, held on the beach of Marotta.

Fernando Ferroni (LICEO TCO) is president of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and professor at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome. He has always been involved in experimental aspects of elementary particle physics. He worked at CERN in Geneva, first on neutrino experiments until the 1980s and then on the L3 experiment at LEP (the accelerator that preceded LHC in the Geneva tunnel). In the early nineties he began his collaboration with the BaBar experiment on the PEP2 machine of SLAC (Stanford, USA) for the study of CP violation in the decays of the “beauty” quark. He is currently working at the Gran Sasso National Laboratories in the CUORE experiment for the research of double beta decay without neutrino emission and in an innovative project in the same field funded by a grant from the European Research Council. He is the author of several hundred articles in scientific journals and has participated in numerous international committees in the field of High Energy Physics.

Emanuele Frontoni, Professor of Computer Science and Computer Vision of the Information Engineering Department of the Polytechnic University of Marche, carries out his research activities in the field of artificial intelligence and vision, analysis of human behavior, augmented reality and sensitive spaces with applications to the world of Industry 4.0 and Retail. He collaborates with important national and international companies and actively participates in different European projects in the sector of business digitization. He is the author of over 120 international articles on the subject and reviewer of H2020 projects for the European Commission.

Eva Savina Malinverni (ITET FERMO) is associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Construction and Architecture (DICEA) at the Polytechnic University of Marche in Ancona. From 2012 to 2015 she was president of the Degree Course in Building Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Marche. Previously he collaborated with Prof. Luigi Mussio within the ISPRS Working Group VI / 3 "International Cooperation and Technology Transfer" and in the research project "Regional plan for air quality" coordinated by the University of Milan for the Foundation Lombardy for the Environment and the Lombardy Region. Currently, he collaborates with the Universidade Federal da Bahia in Brazil for a study project related to the study, analysis and implementation of an HBIM. She is the author of more than 145 scientific publications in the areas of Geomatics, of which 25 are featured in “Scopus” and 14 in “Web of Science”.

Filippo Martelli (UNIURB) is associate professor of Physics at the “Carlo Bo” University of Urbino. He is a member of the international collaboration LIGO-Virgo which in 2016 announced the first revelation of gravitational waves, a discovery that led to the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 and for which he was awarded, with the other members of the collaboration, the “Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics”, a prize equivalent to the Nobel Prize, so far awarded only three times, and the “Gruber Cosmology Prize 2016”. He has operated and still operates in numerous international research fields, such as the HELIOS experimental program at CERN in Geneva, the research of neutrino oscillations conducted both at the IHEP of and at CERN (NOMAD), the development of one of the first models phenomenological for neutrino oscillations, the study of CP symmetry violation in the K-meson system. Within the Virgo project for the detection of gravitational waves at the European Gravitational Observatory (Cascina, PI), he coordinated the activity of the laboratory of the Florence / Urbino group. He has held various positions at INFN, where he was a member and secretary of the National Scientific Commission for Astroparticle Physics from 1997 to 2003. Author of more than 250 publications in international journals, he also deals with scientific dissemination and is currently a member of the Board of the "Occhialini Foundation", which aims to promote and increase knowledge of Physics.

NAndrea Monteriù is researcher of Automatics at the Department of Information Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Marche, where he is currently also lecturer of the Course of Fundamentals of Automatics. His main research interests include control methodologies for dynamic systems, fault prognosis and diagnosis, fault tolerant control techniques, predictive maintenance, autonomous systems control and driving techniques, mobile and service robotics, and assistive technologies. The research activity is documented by over 100 publications in international journals and national and international conference proceedings, together with the publication of 5 scientific books. Icola Armaroli is research manager at the National Research Council (CNR). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and an elected member of the Executive Board of EuCheMS. He has published over 200 articles in international journals in the field of photochemistry and its technological implications, such as the conversion of solar energy, new materials for lighting technologies and catalysis. It carries out consultancy and scientific dissemination activities on energy, resources and the environment. He has published various books on these topics, including the best-seller Energy for the spaceship Earth, written with Vincenzo Balzani and now in its third edition (Zanichelli 2017). He directs Sapere, the oldest Italian science magazine, founded in 1935.

Francesco Petretti is a biologist and teaches Conservation Biology at the University of Perugia and Wildlife Ecology and Management at the University of Camerino. He is a member of the WWF Scientific Committee and has directed the Biodiversity programs of the same association, dealing with the protection of natural resources and threatened species. He oversaw the editing of the Red Book of Plants of Italy and Animals of Italy. He is a member of the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and of the Working Group on steppe birds of Birdlife, and has been dedicated for years to the study of the ecology and behavior of birds of prey and bustards. His studies on the snake eagle have been the subject of scientific communications and a monographic volume. He collaborates with the periodical Io Donna (Corsera) and is Scientific Director of the OASIS magazine. He commented on the Great Migrations series of National Geographic in Italy and oversaw the making of naturalistic documentaries that were broadcast by the major Italian television networks in the programs PAN Natural Stories (RAI3), the Quark World (RAI1), Geo & Geo (RAI3 ) and winners of national and international festivals. He is the author of text and popular books. He is also the author and host of radio and television programs on Science and Ecology and since 1997 he has been an expert naturalist of the GEO & GEO program for RAI 3 and scientific consultant for various television programs (Quark, Passage to the North West, Explora).