CURRICULUM
GIOVANNI BONIOLO (doctoral degree in Physics and in Philosophy)
•Since 2015, Full Professor of “Philosophy of science and Medical humanities”, Dipartimento di Neuroscienze e Riabilitazione, University of Ferrara
•Since 2016, Honorary Ambassador, Technische Universität München
•Since 2015, Alumnus of the Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München.
•2017-2023. President of the Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo
•2019-2023. Editor-in-chief of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.
•Since 2018, Scientific Director of the Civitas Vitae Research Centre.
•2017-2023. Member of the ‘Animal Welfare Committee’, University of Ferrara
•Since 2021, Honorary Faculty member of ESCO - College of the European School of Oncology
•Since 2018, Member Honoris Causa and “Benemerito della Cultura” of the Accademia Siciliana dei Mitici.
•2017-2018. Member of the “Technical-scientific group for the evalutation of the use of the personal devices at school”. Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca.
•2017-2019. Coordinator of the “Science and Society Group”, Federazione Italiana Scienze della Vita (FISV).
•2015-2017, Anna Boyksen Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München.
•2017. Winner of the Premio Nazionale Frascati Filosofia
•2016-2018, Member of the Ethical Committee for the Clinical Experimentation; Hospitals of Verona and Rovigo”.
•Since 2016, Member of the Accademia Olimpica Nazionale Italiana.
•2016-2017. Representative of the University of Ferrara at the European University Association.
•2016-2019. President of the Società Italiana di Storia, Filosofia e Studi Sociali della Biologia e della Medicina
•2015-2018. Member of the “Technical-scientific Group for the Philosophy”. Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca
•2008-2015. Director of the PhD program in “Foundations of the Life Sciences and Their Ethical Consequences”, European School of Molecular Medicine and University of Milano.
•2008-2015. Director of the Biomedical Humanities Unit, Department of Experimental Oncology, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia (Milano).
•2014. Awarded by the Italian Olympic National Committee for the best book on sport
•2014-2016. Chair of the Ethics Committee for the Biomedical Research of the Firc Institute of Molecular Oncology , Milano.
•2013-now. Member of the Scientific Committee of Fondazione Sasso Corbaro, Ticino (Switzerland)
•2014-2016. Consultant of the Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal).
•2013-now. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Società Italiana Biodiritto
•2010-2015. Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Umberto Veronesi.
•2013-now. Member of the Ethical Committee of the European Independent Foundation in Angiology/Vascular Medicine.
•2012-now. External Member of the Center for the Study of Bioethics, University of Belgrade (Serbia).
•2006-2015. Member of the Ethics Committee of the University of Milano.
•2010-2015. Chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, Firc Institute of Molecular Oncology (Milano).
•2008-2010. Member of the Comitato Regionale per i Trapianti del Piemonte e della Valle d’Aosta.
•2007-now. Co-director and co-founder of the “European Advanced Seminars in the Philosophy of the Life Science.
•2005-2006. Ethical advisor of the Centro Nazionale Trapianti (CNT).
•1999-now. Member of the Accademia dei Concordi (Rovigo, Italy)
•1993-1996. Director of the Computer Center of the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia (University of Padova, Italy).
•He was the director of the Master in Ethical Counselling in Oncology, realized by the European School of Oncology (Milano, October 27-29, 2014; Garching (Germany), November 23-24, 2016)
•Since 2019, Editor of Lecture Notes in Bioengineering (Springer)
•Since 2017, Editor in chief of the series of book Filosofia della scienza e dintorni (Meltemi, Milano).
•Since 2014, Editor in chief of Springer Briefs on Ethical and Legal Issues in Biomedicine and Technology
•2006-2011, Editor in chief of the series of books Dimensioni della scienza (Bompiani, Milano).
•Over the years, he has (co-)organized many international meetings.
•Member of the Editorial Board or of the Advisory Board of many international journals.
• Chair of the Independent Ethical Committees of several European projects.
•He serves as reviewer for many international journals and publishing houses; for Italian and European universities; for the European Research Council; for Italian charitable organisations.
•Member of many Italian and international societies.
•In 2008, he established, at the University of Milano, the first course on “Medical humanities” in an Italian Medical School; and in 2017, at the University of Ferrara, the first Italian “humanistic curriculum” in an Italian Medical School.
•He has extensively lectured in Italy and at international level.
• Among his books:
o G. Boniolo, Conoscere per vivere. Istruzioni per sopravvivere all’ignoranza, Meltemi, Milano 2018.
o G. Boniolo, V. Sanchini (eds), Ethical counselling and medical decision-making in the era of personalized medicine, Springer, Heidelberg 2016
o G. Boniolo, M. Nathan (eds), Philosophy of Molecular Medicine: Foundational Issues in Research and Practice, Routledge, New York 2016
o G. Boniolo, P. Maugeri (eds.), Etica ai confini della biomedicina. Per una cittadinanza consapevole, Mondadori Università, Milano 2014.
o G. Boniolo, Le regole e il sudore. Divagazioni su sport e filosofia, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano 2013 (CONI Award, 2014)
o G. Boniolo, The Art of Deliberating. Democracy, Deliberation and the Life Sciences Between History and Theory, Springer, Heidelberg 2012.
