Giuliana Rubbia Rinaldi
Giuliana Rubbia Rinaldi
Graduated in Physics, she is a Senior technologist at the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (INGV).
Since 2025, she has been a research associate at the CNR-IRPPS (Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies) in Rome.
Rome
giuliana.rubbia@ingv.it
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Recent research and application interests include research gender, ethics, and research policies.
She is currently the President of the Single Guarantee Committee (CUG) for Equal Opportunities, Employee Well-being, and Non-Discrimination at INGV, of which she was the first president at the time of its establishment (2011).
Regarding responsible research assessment, she is the co-coordinator of the Italian Chapter of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), co-chair of the Capacity Building & Communication Task Force of the CoARA Working Group TIER—Towards an Inclusive Evaluation of Research, and a member of the INGV CoARA Working Group.
Since 2014, she has served as an expert evaluator for the European Commission for the “Human Resources Strategy for Researchers” (HRS4R), aimed at the effective implementation of the European Charter for Researchers, and for the equivalent “Human Resources Excellence in Research Award” (HREiR – UK Concordat) in UK universities.
She has served as a gender expert for European projects and as PI of the INGV independent research project DiGEST – Gender Dimensions in Earth Sciences; she has organized conferences and published contributions and products on various topics related to gender and science.
She currently works at the INGV Section in Milan, where she began her professional career in the mid-1990s as a researcher in information technology. She developed the first online databases on national seismicity and online reports of seismic events, and has been responsible for institutional web portals, including the top-level site www.ingv.it. She worked for eight years in Rome at the INGV Central Administration, where she was a member of the Working Group for the update of the Code of Ethics; she also dealt with science-society relations and research support services, with roles at the Outreach Laboratory, the Disciplinary Proceedings Office, and the Projects Office.
Since 2019, she has been a member of the Gender and Talents Observatory (GETA) of CNR-IRPPS, and since 2025, she has been a research associate at the CNR-IRPPS Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies in Rome.
Since 2015, she has been a member of the board of the Women and Science Association, where she previously served as Vice President.
The main publications are available here.
