SF-Bay Area

The Chapter is open to Alumni, professors, researchers and professionals graduated at the University of Bologna interested in developing the local University of Bologna Alumni Network. The Chapter aims to support participants in seizing the opportunities offered by the San Francisco Bay Area for individual cultural and career development, to establish collaborative relationships between the University of Bologna and the local Italian cultural and productive fabric, to disseminate research and knowledge produced by the University of Bologna among universities, local organisations and economic actors in California, and to disseminate and promote Italian culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Northern California. The Chapter aims to connect people, to share experiences and career paths, to promote ideas, knowledge and culture in order to create a bridge between two geographical areas: Northern California and Emilia-Romagna where the University of Bologna campuses are located.

The Chapter Leader

Hello, I am Laura Fantone, Leader of the SF-Bay Area International Chapter. 

I graduated in Political Science from the University of Bologna and was awarded a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies from the City University of New York. I subsequently completed two PhD degrees: the first at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, and the second, in America Studies, at the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples. 

I worked as a Lecturer in Women's Studies at the University of California, and within the same institute I recently became Research Lab Manager in the Department of Molecular Biology.  

Since 2021 I have been collaborating with the national interdisciplinary physics research network N3AS - Network for Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics and Symmetries. 

I am a member of the Bay Area Chapter of Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (ISSNAF), which has almost 3,000 members.