PIERLUIGI ZAPPACOSTA

Chair

I co-founded Logitech in 1981 and I served as President, CEO, and Vice-Chairman until 1998. I am an investor in tech companies in Italy and in the US. I co-founded ISSNAF in 2007 and I am currently the Secretary and Treasurer of the ISSNAF national board.

ALESSANDRO RATTI

Co-Chair

I am the Director of the Electronics Engineering Division in the Accelerator Directorate at the SLAC National Acceletator Laboratory.

ALBERTO SALLEO

Co-Chair

I am a Professor, and Department Chair in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University. I am also an affiliate of the Precourt Institute for Energy, and a member of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.

STEFANO CABRINI

Secretary

I am the Director of the Nanofabrication Facility in the Molecular Foundry, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and leader of the interfacility Single Digit Nano Fabrication and Assembling program.

MASSIMILIANO FRATONI

Treasurer

I am Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

ELENA ORLANDO

Young ISSNAF Liaison

I am a Senior Research Scientist in Astrophysics at Stanford University in the Kavli Institute for the Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) and in the Hansen Experimental Physics Lab (HEPL).

ENRICA D'ETTORRE

Board Member

I co-founded DigitalPersona in 2002 and until 2014 I acted as VP of Software Engineering and Research. I have been a member of the ISSNAF national board since 2018 and I serve as its Vice President.

SIMONE DELL'AGNELLO

Board Member

I am a senior physics researcher and leader working as a Scientific Expert at the Italian Consulate in San Francisco.

CLAUDIO PELLEGRINI

Board Member

I am a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Distinguished Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at UCLA, currently working at SLAC. I am mostly known for my pioneering work on X-ray free electron lasers and collective effects in relativistic particle beams.

STEFANO FORESTI

Board Member

I am the Director of Innovation at the School of Engineering at the University of California, Merced.