About BAC
The Bay Area Chapter is the ISSNAF network in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, including Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz.
Founded in 2017, it currently includes over 350 researchers, scholars and technologists who work in more than 20 universities and research centers across the greater San Francisco Bay Area in all disciplines and at all career levels.
Executive Committee
Chair
ALESSANDRA LANZARA
Endowed Kittel Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley; founding Director of Center for Sustainable Materials and Innovation at UCB and director of Berkeley Discovery. Elected to the American Academy of Art and Sciences, European Academy of Science and American Physical Society.
Past chair
ALESSANDRO RATTI
Division Deputy for Accelerator Technology and system manager for electronics systems at the ALS-U project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
MARIA LUISA GORNO TEMPINI
Charles Schwab Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at UCSF; Director of the Language Neurobiology Laboratory at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center; co-Director the UCSF Dyslexia Center and UCSF-UC Berkeley Schwab Dyslexia and Cognitive Diversity Center
BARBARA ROSARIO
Co-founder, advisor and former CTO of Vyrill, an AI startup for video commerce. She graduated in Physics from the University of Trieste and received her PhD degree from the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley; she worked as a research scientist at Intel Labs and Technicolor, Paris.
Vice chair
LUIGI PISTAFERRI
Professor in the Economics Department at Stanford University and the “Ralph Landau” Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Affiliated with NBER, CEPR, IZA, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
EUGENIO BOTTACCINI
Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Università di Padova, and visiting Research Scientist at Stanford University.
LISA PIERACCINI
Faculty member in the History of Art Department and the Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Program at UC Berkeley. Founder of the Mario Del Chiaro Center for Ancient Italian Studies and elected member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici in Florence.