The new academic year begins

The new academic year 2018-2019 kicks-off today bringing along, as tradition, several news regarding our University.

New courses such as the Master Digital Fashion Communication will be introduced, new professors were appointed, and new staff members joined our community. Here is the full list:

Faculty of Economics
Emanuele Bettinazzi, Assistant Professor of management, Institute of Management and Organization
Lorenz Küng, Assistant Professor in macroeconomics, Institute of Public Economics

Faculty of Communication Sciences
Léna Pellandini-Simanyi, Assistant Professor of marketing, Institute of Marketing and Communication Management 

Faculty of Informatics
Didyk Piotr, Assistant Professor of informatics
Carlo Alberto Furia, Associate Professor, Software Institute
Paolo Tonella, Full Professor, Software Institute 
Ernst Wit, Full Professor, Institute of Computational Science
Michael Multerer, Assistant Professor, Institute of Computational Science 

Faculty of Biomedical Sciences
Emiliano Albanese, Full Professor of public health  

Staff
Ruggiero-Ciresa Nadia, Dean’s office, Faculty of Informatics
Moretti Géraldine, Study Advisory Service, Usi Sport Service
Rigamonti Simona, Study Advisory Service

Concerning USI strategic development, the corporate management of the University executive board is growing. Dr. Cristina D’Arrigo will join Maria Cristina Reinhart starting from September 4, and from February 2019, Nina Volles will be back at USI.

With the end of the month, Luisa Tettamanti-Cutruneo (Controlling Office) and Arianna Carugati (Equal Opportunities Service) will bid us farewell. To them goes our heartfelt thank you.