People

A nucleus with two co-Directors.

Participation is conferred by personal invitation and reply. The Institute is deliberately small: three to six Founding Fellows in its first two years.

Founding Director

Flavio Argentesi · Cambridge, UK

Four decades of inverse-problem work across three European Commission divisions: the JRC AI Laboratory at Ispra, computational nuclear safeguards, and regulatory informatics at the EMEA in London.

Co-Founding Director · pending formal acceptance

Franco Rinaudo · IT

Co-direction of the Institute's scientific programme and of its technical infrastructure.

Founding Fellows

Confirmed

Marina Manca

Verbania-Pallanza, IT

CIPAIS zooplankton monitoring of Lake Maggiore, 1981–2023. Co-author of Memorie 45.

Axis: B·1, A·1

Confirmed

Roberta Piscia

Verbania-Pallanza, IT

CNR-IRSA. Lake Maggiore zooplankton and long-term ecological monitoring.

Axis: B·1, A·1

In dialogue

Livio Costantini

Vienna, AT

JRC AI Laboratory; later Head of Documentary Analysis at the IAEA.

Axis: Line A, NLP

Confirmed

Giulia Borswick

London, UK

Clinical research on protocols analogous to inverse-problem identification in human physiology.

Axis: Line B, clinical

In Memoriam

Giulio Di Cola

Population dynamics modelling; co-author from the 1973 IFAC paper onward.

Luciano Guerri

Distributed-parameter systems and aquatic biomass dynamics.

Bernard Meltzer

JRC AI Laboratory; analogical representation and naive physics.

Margaret Merlini

Radioecology at Ispra; Zn-65 compartmental physiology, 1971.

Associates & participation. Methodological exchange in scoping with the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires (KCL + Imperial). Open slots for collaborators in retrieval architecture for inverse problems, or in SciML on structured population models. Fellowship is offered by personal invitation and takes effect on reply; the Institute claims no institutional affiliation on behalf of its members. Enquiries welcome →