Pier Luigi Luisi

Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy

Pier Luigi received his scientific education at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. In 1970, he became professor at the Institut für Polymere at the ETH-Zürich and since 2006 he is part of the biology department of the University of Roma Tre. As a biochemist, he pioneered an active research in the self-organization of synthetic and biological systems, the origin of life, and semi-synthetic cellular systems (the so-called "mininal life"). Interested in the interface between science and humanities, in 1985 he founded Cortona week, legacy to this Todi-week, and participated, in 1987, to the foundation of Mind and Life in Dharamsala, India, with Francisco Varela and the Dalai Lama.

OTHER SPEAKERS

Prof. Sandeep Kumar

IIT BHU, Varanasi

Prof. Henk Barendregt​,

Radboud University, Netherlands

Dr. Edward N. Zalta​

Stanford University, USA

Prof. Teun Koetsier​

VU-University, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jordan Bergmans

Royal Academy of Music, London

Prof. Klaus Böhmer​​

University of Marburg, Germany

Professor Pritam B. Sharma

Vice Chancellor Amity University, Gurgaon

Prof. Sudipto Ghosh​

IIT Kharagpur

Dr. Christoph Benzmüller​

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Prof. Ramgopal Uppaluri

IIT Guwahati

Prof. Bhudev Sharma

(formerly) Clark Atlanta University, USA

Prof. Dr. Vijay Bhatkar

MIT, PUNE

Sri K. Vasudeva rao​

IIT Kanpur

Prof. Luc Bergmans

Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Dr. Bhagwati  Prasad Chamola

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology

Prof. Manohar Lal

IIT Kanpur

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