Brief Curriculum Vitae 

Raffaele Calabretta                         Born: May 26th, 1963 (Satriano, CZ, Italy)

Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian National Research Council (CNR) 
Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185, Roma, Italy 

Phone: (+39)-06-44595233 Fax : (+39)-06-44595243 WWW: http://laral.istc.cnr.it/rcalabretta 

Facebook: here and here. Twitter (in Italian). Blog Doparie Press (in Italian) 

Summerized Biography
Publications
Talks: here and here
Seminars

Raffaele Calabretta has been a permanent researcher of the National Research Council in Rome since 1988, and an affiliate of NECSI (Cambridge, MA) since 2001. He was a Professor of Educational Technologies and is the author of two experimental hypertextual novels. He was visiting scholar at Yale (Gunter Wagner, Frank Keil) and his work led to the discovery of unknown mechanisms for the origin of modularity. He was visiting scholar at Stanford (James Fishkin) and is the developer of "doparie", a new intra-party decision-making method.  In 2011 he published the first scientific paper about doparie. In the first months of 2012, he and collaborators (researchers of Harvard Kennedy School of Government and of MIT) conducted the first experiment of online doparia (see Klein, Spada & Calabretta, 2012).

 

1993 - present  Permanent Researcher, Department of Neural System and Artificial Life, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies ( former Institute of Psychology), Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy.

September 2016 - present  Associate Professor of Psychology of Communication, International Telematic University UNINETTUNO, Rome.

April 2016 - June 2016  Visiting Scholar, Center for Deliberative Democracy, Department of Communication, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (USA).

December 2011 - July 2012  Visiting Scholar, Center for Deliberative Democracy, Department of Communication, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (USA).

October 2010  Visiting Fellow, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT (USA).

2000 - 2004  Professor, Undergraduate course on Educational Technologies, Faculty of Educational Science, Universita' de L'Aquila.

2001 - present  Affiliate of the New England Complex Systems Institute, Cambridge, MA.

1998 - 2002  Member of the Center for Computational Ecology, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, New Haven, CT (USA).

2002 - 2008  Member of the Institute Committee

January 1-14 2007  Visiting Scientist, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM (USA).

June - July 2002  Visiting Fellow, Department of Psychology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT (USA).

June - July 2000  Visiting Fellow, Department of Psychology and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT (USA).

1988 - 1999  Permanent Researcher, Centro Studio per la Chimica del Farmaco, Italian National Research Council, Department of Pharmaceutical Studies, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universita' di Roma La Sapienza, Italy.

1997  Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT (USA).

 

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Scientific Activities
 
Scientific coordinator of the C.N.R. Bilateral Project Italy-U.S.A. "Evolutionary mechanisms for the origin of modular design in artificial neural networks".

Member of the Program Committee of the 5th European Conference on Artificial Life (1999), Sixth International Conference on Artificial Life (1998).

Invited Speaker:

- The proposal of doparie was presented by invitation at Politicamente Scorretto, Casalecchio di Reno (BO). November 30, 2013. (Video and audio recording - in Italian - is available here)

- The proposal of doparie was presented by invitation  at the political meeting "Politicamp" organized by Giuseppe Civati. Reggio Emilia, July 13, 2013. (Video and audio recording - in Italian -  is available here)

- The proposal of doparie was presented by invitation at the library of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. March 24, 2011. (Radio Radicale's audio recording - in Italian - is available here)

- "Doparie: a novel democratic participatory decision making mechanism that affects party supporters well-being?", Experiments Lunch Fall 2010/Spring 2011. Yale Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University. Friday, October 29, 2010.

- "Doparie: the democracy of happiness?", Laboratory of Cognition and Development, Department of Psychology, Yale University. Monday, October 18, 2010.

- Conference of Italian and German Journalists, "Elettori e lettori. Perdita di fiducia nei confronti di politica e media", organized by the German-Italian Centre for European Excellence "Villa Vigoni" together with the German Embassy in Rome, the Italian Embassy in Berlin and the European Journalism Observatory, Lugano. Invited speaker together with Walter Veltroni, former Italian Democratic Party's leader, and Thomas Schmid, former director of the German newspaper "Die Welt". Loveno di Menaggio (CO), 26 febbraio 2010.

- Workshop "Dynamic Structure of Robustness, organized by Erica Jen (SFI) and Michelle Girvan (SFI). The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, January 4-6, 2007. 

- Seminar "Processi cognitivi e formazione. Teorie Modelli Progetti". Scuola Interuniversitaria Campana di Specializzazione all'Insegnamento (SICSI), Universita' degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Napoli. April, 21 2006.

- Work Group Meeting "Robustness and Evolvability of Specialists and Generalists" (together with: Stephanie Forrest, Santiago Elena, Homayoun Bagheri, Melanie Mitchell, Steve Frank and John Holland), The Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, October 18-20, 2004. 

- Convegno "Le emozioni ignoranti", Istituto di Specializzazione in Psicologia Psicoanalitica del Se' e Psicoanalisi Relazionale (ISIPSE'), Istituto di Neuropsichiatria Infantile, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", April 2, 2004.

- XXXI Seminario sulla EVOLUZIONE BIOLOGICA E I GRANDI PROBLEMI DELLA BIOLOGIA, Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare "Beniamino Segre", Accademia dei Lincei. Roma, February 28, 2004. [abstract in Italian]

- Invited plenary talk: "Modularity", SPECIAL DAY on EVOLUTION,  International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2002). Nashua, NH, U.S.A., June 9-14, 2002.

- IX Convegno annuale di Scienza Cognitiva, Con gli occhi di Darwin: l'evoluzionismo al tavolo delle scienze cognitive, Centro di Scienza Cognitiva, Universita' e Politecnico di Torino, 9 Maggio 2002.

- Workshop "Modularity - Understanding the Development and Evolution of Complex Natural Systems", Altenberg Series in Theoretical Biology, Altenberg, Austria, October 26-29, 2000.

- Sesto Incontro Biologi Evoluzionisti Italiani, Aula Magna Universita' "Tor Vergata", February 18, 1998.

- First International Conference on Complex Systems. Nashua, NH, U.S.A., September 23, 1997.

 

Research Projects

2005-present   Coordinator, Research Project, Doparie

2001-present   Coordinator, Research Project, Evolution of modularity in ecological neural networks

2003-present   Coordinator, Research Project, "Film come formazione. Realizzare film e fiction per educare alle emozioni"

December 2011 - July 2012    Coordinator, USA National Endowment for Humanities/Cnr Program (Raffaele Calabretta - James Fishkin) "The democracy of Doparie".

October 2010    Coordinator, Short-Term Mobilty Program (Raffaele Calabretta - Frank Keil) "L'effetto delle "doparie" (primarie dopo le elezioni su decisioni di partito) sul benessere dei cittadini", Italian National Research Council.

2007-2008   Research Project, The E. U. project “Swarmanoid: Towards Humanoid Robotic Swarms”, (IST-022888), Future and Emerging Technologies program of the European Community

2004-2008   Research Project, The E. U. project "ECAgents: Embodied and Communicating Agents" (IST-001940; http://ecagents.istc.cnr.it/), Future and Emerging Technologies program of the European Community

2001-2003   Research Project, Swarm-Bots: The E.U. project on swarms of self-assemblying artefacts.

June - July 2000   Coordinator, Short-Term Mobilty Program (Raffaele Calabretta - Gunter P. Wagner - Frank Keil) "Evoluzione dei compiti visivi "what" e where" in reti neurali modulari e non modulari", Italian National Research Council.

2000   Research Project "Adaptive Behaviors and Artificial Life". Institute of Psychology, Italian National Research Council.

1999   Coordinator, Research Project "Comparative analysis of natural and artificial adaptative systems". Institute of Psychology, Italian National Research Council.

1998    Coordinator, Bilateral Research Project (Raffaele Calabretta - Gunter P. Wagner) "Evolutionary mechanisms for the origin of modular design in artificial neural networks". National Advisory Committee for Biological and Medical Sciences, Italian National Research Council.

1997   Research Project "Sviluppo di capacita’ complesse in reti neurali ecologiche". Institute of Psychology, Italian National Research Council.

1996   Research Project "Evolution and development in artificial neural networks". Institute of Psychology, Italian National Research Council.

1995   Research Project "Evolutionary Robotics". Institute of Psychology, Italian National Research Council.

1990 - 1994   Progetto Finalizzato Chimica Fine II, C.N.R.

 


 

Education

1988   Army chemico-pharmaceutical officer, Scuola di Sanita' Militare di Firenze.

1987 Qualifying examination for chemist, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

1985-86 Laurea in Pharmacy, University of Rome "La Sapienza": 110/110 cum laude.

1981    Maturita' classica: 58/60, Istituto Salesiano, Soverato (CZ).

Raffaele Calabretta

 Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy 
Email raffaele.calabretta@istc.cnr.it 

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