Luisa Neri

1998: Degree in Foreign Languages at Università di Bologna
1993-1994: Erasmus Scholarship at University College Cork, Cork, Eire
1998-1999: Master in "Meeting organization and communication", Professional Data Gest (Bologna)
2002: Certificate of Proficiency English (C2), Cambridge Assessment English
2009: "Come Va la Ricerca", CNR-PSC, Genova
2022: Master in Progettazione e gestione dei fondi europei. Il PNRR per le pubbliche amministrazioni (50 ore). Università telematica Giustino Fortunato, Corso Valore PA.

Technologist @ CNR-NANO S3, research management support staff.
2003-2006 INFM; 2006-2010: Cnr Infm; from 2010 Cnr Nano.

In the spotlight:

• • • research management
      (funded projects; dissemination & outreach; technology transfer; institutional tasks)
    • project management in European Projects (e.g., WP Management leader at MaX materials at the Exascale, Comunicationa and Management leader at Intersect)
      - member of the HPC3 (CoEs' Council at Focus CoE)
      - MaX deputy at Castiel2 CSA Industry and Communication working groups
    • member of the CNR group selected to support gender-specific training and work within the CNR Gender Equality Plan 2022-2024: trainer at Cnr events (Rome, November 2023; Milano, June 2024; Bari, June 2025).
      - trained trainer in H2020 MINDtheGEPS project
    • communication tasks: annual report editor;  internal communication and website content editor; Intersect, MaX, Rimmel Project; Cnr social media campaign #womenatCnr; European Research Night
      - event planner and organizer
    • management system supervisor in S3 Labs in Rete AT Emilia Romagna

• • • Cnr Nano deputy for Privacy
    • Cnr Nano deputy for Staff Training
    • Cnr Nano deputy for Affiliation procedures

Public activities

• Host at two conferences in the "Simmetrie Viventi" series, Science month, Public city library A. Delfini, Modena (14-28/11/2025).
• Invited talk "Gender dimension in European projects" at Net4Air workshop "Awareness into Action: Ideas for an Inclusive Scientific Culture”, CAS conference, Sinaia (Romania). 10/10/2025.
• Presentation of book "Scienziate Visonarie" with authors Cristina Mangia and Sabrina Presto; Biblioteca Delfini (Modena). 30/05/2025
• "Communication in European projects" in Workshop "La tua ricerca ha una voce?"; for Cnr researchers; online. (Organizer and invited seminar) 09/05/2025
• The European project's life cycle and gender issue; invited webinar for Cnr IBF researchers; online. 13/02/2025
• "Gender-biased language" in Workshop "Se le conosci le eviti. Idee per contrastare le discriminazioni nella scienza" (Ideas to fight discriminations in science". Roma 21/11/2023; Milan 21/06/2024).

1998-2003: Expert System s.p.a.
1994 onwards; Free-lance translator and teacher of English.