Roberta Ferrario

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

10/2012-present Researcher at the ISTC-CNR, Trento unit (permanent).

07/2007-10/2012, Researcher at the ISTC-CNR, Trento unit (temporary).

EDUCATION:

2004-2007, Post-doc fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Trento unit

2003-2004, Research Assistant at the ISTC-CNR, Trento unit 2003 PhD in Philosophy (co-tutorship), University of Milano, Italy 2003 PhD in Philosophy (co-tutorship), University of Strasbourg, France 1998 – M. Phil. University of Milano, Italy

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:

Social Ontology, Ontology of Mental Entities, Digital Humanities, Ontology of Services, Integration of Ontology and Computer vision.

AREAS OF COMPETENCE:

Foundational ontologies, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language.

WORKS:

She’s author of a monograph, five edited books, three special issues and more than 90 scientific articles and book chapters on social ontology, ontology of services, ontology of mental entities, philosophy of language, which have received more than 1600 citations. Her h-index is 17.

LANGUAGES: Italian mother-tongue, fluent in English, intermediate French, I can read in Spanish and German.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS (INVITED TALKS):

6th Italian Conference in Analitic Ontology and Metaphysics, to be held in L’Aquila, June 20-23, 2022.
Conference of the Society of Women in Philosophy 2019. Philosophy, Gender and Digital Communication, in Modena, November 28, 2019.
Identity in Computational Formal and Applied Systems, in Prague, August 10, 2019.
Lectures en Sciences Sociales, un séeminaire de l’École française de Rome – Fragments, Fragmentations, in Roma, June 12, 2019.
Knowledge Representation in Multi-agent Systems 2018, in Torún, September 7, 2018.
Knowledge Representation Seminars, in Leeds, May 2, 2018.
Centre for Metaphysics and Mind Seminars, University of Leeds, 21 March 2018.
Workshop on Modelling and Design of Socio-Technical Systems, Delft university of Technology, 14-15 November 2014.
Patrick Suppes Symposium, Stanford University, 9-11 March 2012.
International Workshop on Value Modeling and Business Ontology, University of Ghent, 7-8 February 2011.

FELLOWSHIPS:

2017-2018 Visiting Fellowship at the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science of the University of Leeds (12 months).

INVITED ACADEMIC VISITS:

03/2012 EPGY (Educational Program for Gifted Youth) and Stanford University, invited by Prof. Patrick Suppes (2 weeks).
03/2011 EPGY and Stanford University, invited by Prof. Patrick Suppes (2 weeks).
03/2006 EPGY and Stanford University, invited by Prof. Patrick Suppes (2 weeks).
10/2003-06/2004 EPGY and Stanford University, invited by Prof. Patrick Suppes (9 months).
09/2001-02/2002 Université Marc Bloch de Strasbourg, co-tutorship program (6 months).
03/2001-06/2002 CSLI (Center for the Study of Language and Information) and Stanford University, invited by Prof. John Perry (3 months).
09/2000-02/2001 Université Marc Bloch de Strasbourg, co-tutorship program (6 months).

ACTIVITIES, ROLES:

2021-today. Member of the Board of the Doctoral School of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento.
2021-today. Member of the Advisory Board of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications.
2016-2020. Member of the Board of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the CNR.
2015-2020. Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications.
2017, 2018. Evaluator for the “Rita Levi Montalcini” prize of the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR).
2017, Evaluator for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO, the Dutch Research Council), for the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni.
2018, Evaluator for the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIIA) for the Lesmo Prize (best master thesis in Artificial Intelligence in Italy).
2019, Evaluator for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), for the Pegasus Marie Curie Fellowships and Research projects.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY:

Since 2017, Editor in chief of the International Journal Applied Ontology
Since 2019, Member of the Editorial Board of the International Open Access Journal Information
Since 2015, member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal Applied Ontology
2003-2006, member of the Editorial Board of the electronic Journal Networks (http://www.dif.unige.it/epi/networks/)

She has served as reviewer for many international journals: Philosophy and Technology, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Semantic Web Journal, Journal of Web Semantics, International Journal of E-government, Philosophy and Technology, Knowledge Management Research and Practice, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Software: Practice and Experience, Information.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROJECT GRANTS (AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR):

2012-2016: 600.000 EUR – Autonomous Province of Trento (Research Unit Grant)
2007-2010: 150.000 EUR – Autonomous Province of Trento (Post-doc Grant)
2007-2009: 50.000 EUR – Fondazione CARITRO (Post-doc Grant, relinquished in favour of the one of the Autonomous Province of Trento)
2003-2004: 5.000 USD – Rotary Foundation (Ambassadorial Scholarship)
1999-2002: European Doctoral College (PhD scholarship)

LIST OF PROJECTS SUPPORTED BY THIRD-PARTY FUNDS:

2022-2025 BRiO (Bias, Risk and Opacity in AI: design, verification and development of trustworthy AI.
2020-2022: Ontology-driven data documentation for Industry Commons, Horizon 2020 funds (GA no. 958371).
2012: Ontological restructuring of the integrated fiscal dictionary, SOGEI funds.
2011-2012: Study and experimentation of a software environment of business process re-engineering for conceptual modeling of processes and organizations, FESR funds.
2009-2011: ICT4LAW – Information and Communication Technologies for Law, Regione Piemonte funds.
2009-2010: Socio-sanitary Card, Provincia Autonoma di Trento funds.
2006-2009: TOCAI.IT – Technologies oriented to knowledge aggregating companies on the Internet, Consorzio Interuniversitario per l’Informatica funds.
2004-2007 MOSTRO- Modeling Security and Trust in Organizations, Provincia Autonoma di Trento funds.
2003-2004 TICCA Cognitive Technologies for the Integration and Cooperation with Artificial Agents, Provincia Autonoma di Trento funds.
2001-2004 EDAMOK – Enabling Distributed and Autonomous Management of Knowledge, Provincia Autonoma di Trento funds.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

2003-2004: Collegio Siciliano di Filosofia (Special Mention at the Philosophy Prize “Viaggio a Siracusa”, 5th edition, section PhD theses)

PROGRAM COMMITTEES OF CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS:

Workshop Co-chair of SWODCH 2022 (Torino, Italy) and 2021 (Bolzano, Italy), Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage
General Chair of FOIS 2021 and 2020 (Bolzano, Italy),
Formal Ontology for Information Systems – Workshop Co-chair of WODSHA 2019 (Graz, Austria),
Ontologies for Digital Humanities and their Social Analysis – Program Co-chair of FOIS 2016, (Annecy, France),
Formal Ontology for Information Systems – Workshop Co-Chair of CONTACT 2014, (Zurich, Switzerland),
COmputer vision + ONTologies: Applied Cross-disciplinary Technologies) Workshop Co-chair of VORTE 2012, (Beijing, China),
Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise – Program Co-Chair of FOMI 2009 (Vicenza, Italy) and 2006 (Verona, Italy),
Formal Ontologies Meet Industry – Program Co-Chair of FOCA 2006 (Malaga, Spain), Formal Ontologies for Communicating Agents

Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference FOIS (Formal Ontology for Information Systems) in 2018, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2008; of the International Workshop OSS (Ontologies for Social Services) in 2022; of the International Workshop VORTE (International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise), in 2022, 2017 and 2010; of FOUST (Foundational Stance) in 2021, 2020, 2019of CAOS (Cognition and OntologieS) in 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017 and 2016; of SoLEE (Ontology of Social, Legal and Economic Entities) in 2021 and 2019; of the International Workshop EPINON (Epistemology in Ontologies, JOWO Joint Ontology Workshops) in 2017; of the International Conference on Industrial, Engineering, Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems in 2017; of the International Workshop ONTO-BRAS (Research Seminar of Ontologies in Brazil), in 2016, 2013, 2012, 2011; of the AISC Conference (Associazione Italiana di Scienze Cognitive) in 2016; of the International ConferenceEuroAsianPacic Joint Conference on Cognitive Science in 2015; of the InternationalWorkshop FOMI (Formal Ontology Meets Industry) in 2015, 2011, 2008, 2006; of the InternationalWorkshop FOfAI (Formal Ontology for Articial Intelligence, JOWO – Joint Ontology Workshops) in 2015; of the ECSI (European Conference on Social Intelligence) in 2014.

TEACHING AND SUPERVISION:

She has supervised 5 post-doc fellows and 2 PhD students (co-advisor for thesis) and 5 Master students under the scope of the Master in Technologies for E-Government.
PhDCourse on Computer Vision Meets Formal Ontology: advanced methods, recent applications and perspectives. Stepping into Mixed reality, PhD in Computer Science, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell’Informazione, University of Trento (2014-2015).
Master Course on Conceptual Modeling, Ontology Design, and Semantic Interoperability, Professional Master in Technologies for E-Government, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell’Informazione, University of Trento (2011-2012; 2010-2011; 2009-2010;2008-2009; 2007-2008).
Undergraduate Course on Computer Science for Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, University of Trento (2004-2005; 2002-2003; 2001-2002).