Alessandra Scagliarini

Alessandra Scagliarini is Vice-Rector for International Relations (2015-2021) of the University of Bologna. Under this role she coordinates a team of 5 Geographic areas’ delegates and she is personally in charge of the Mediterranean region, Africa and China. She is Full Professor at the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences of the University of Bologna where she has teaching assignments as part of undergraduate courses and postgraduate degrees such as: Veterinary Virology, practical training on large animals transmissible diseases and Biomolecular Methods Applied to communicable diseases. She is involved as coordinator in research projects related to the pathology and control of infectious diseases in animals in collaboration with different national and international research centers. She was a member of PhD evaluation commissions at the College of Veterinary Medicine (Edimburgh, UK), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Universiteit (Gent, Belgium), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Pretoria, South Africa). In 2009 she joined the Ministry of University and Research (MIUR) working group on technological districts, technological platforms and infrastructures and in 2013. From 2006 she has been involved in the activities of the European Technology Platform ETPGAH (European Technological Platform on Global Animal Health) and from 2007 she has been a member of the Organising Committee of the Italian Technology Platform on Global Animal Health (ITPGAH).