Maria Chiara Carrozza is the new president of the National Research Council (Cnr), appointed by the Minister of University and Research, Maria Cristina Messa, with the decree signed today, 12 April 2021.
55 years old, graduated in Physics with a doctorate in Engineering from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, she is the Minister of Education of the Letta Government. Carriage becomes the first female president in the history of the main Italian research institution and will remain in office for the next 4 years.
With this appointment, the Cnr "is once again fully performing its organizational and managerial functions, as well as scientific" underlines the minister Messa in a note, according to which "the role that the Cnr will be called to play in the coming years will be strategic for the growth of the whole country and for international competitiveness: it will have to be a real engine, transversally on many issues and sectors, to enhance and bring out the many potentials that exist in the Italian research system".
An unprecedented challenge and responsibility: is the comment of Maria Chiara Carrozza on the appointment of president of the National Research Council (Cnr). “I am happy and excited for the appointment as president of the Cnr. I thank the Minister of Mass and the Selection Committee for the trust placed in my person ”she said. “Being the first woman to lead the most important and largest research center in the country is an unprecedented challenge and responsibility. But also a change of pace and perspective”. "I trust in the help and collaboration of all the researchers of the institution, on their precious undisputed skills and on their enthusiasm", added Carrozza. “Together we must bring la to the center of social, economic and political attention research, the only driving force for the reconstruction of the country and the future of young people”.
