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

Summerized Biography
Publications
Talks: here and here
Seminars

 

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.

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, University of 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 C.N.R., Department of Pharmaceutical Studies, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.

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

 

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:

- Invited speaker: 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.

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

- Invited speaker (insieme a Walter Veltroni, ex segretario Partito democratico, e a Thomas Schmid, ex direttore del giornale tedesco "Die Welt"). Le doparie per incrementare la fiducia degli elettori nei partiti politici. Conferenza "Elettori e lettori. Perdita di fiducia nei confronti di politica e media" organizzata dal Centro italo-tedesco per l'eccellenza europea, Villa Vigoni, in collaborazione con l'Ambasciata di Germania a Roma e l'Ambasciata d'Italia a Berlino. Loveno di Menaggio (CO). Venerdì 26 febbraio 2010

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

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

- Giornate di studio ISTC, C.N.R., Rome, January 17, 2006.

- "Robustness and Evolvability of Specialists and Generalists" Work Group Meeting (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, patrocinato dall'Istituto di Specializzazione in Psicologia Psicoanalitica del Sé e Psicoanalisi Relazionale (ISIPSÉ), Istituto di Neuropsichiatria Infantile, Università 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 28 febbraio 2004. [abstract in Italian]

- Modularity (invited plenary talk), 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, Università 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.

- Symposium "Modularity in development and evolution", Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germania, May 15, 2000.

- Sesto Incontro Biologi Evoluzionisti Italiani, Aula Magna Università “Tor Vergata”, 18 Febbraio 1998.

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

Member of the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing (http://evonet.crema.unimi.it/evoweb/)

Organizer of:  

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”

2004-present   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.

2001-2005    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.

1998 - present    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.

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

1999  Research Project "Sistemi di Intelligenza Artificiale Distribuita, Informatica Avanzata" (Convenzione Università di Trento-C.N.R. - Provincia Autonoma di Trento).

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

1996 - 1997    Research Project "Evolution and development in artificial neural networks". Institute of Psychology, Italian National Research Council.

1995 - 1996    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 Sanità 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    Maturità 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 

 Updated: February, 2011