top of page

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.

BAC Institutional Partners

consolato.png
istituto italianocultura.jpg
innovit.png
comitessf.png

BAC Area Partner Organizations

leonardodavincisociety.jpg
baia.jpg
sviec.png
museo italoamericano.png
mindthebridge.jpg

Sponsors

issimi.jpg
terun.png
ceraunavolta.png
luciapizza.png
  • X

@issnafbac

  • LinkedIn

#issnafbac

  • YouTube

YouTube BAC playlist

bottom of page