Luca Fiorani graduated in physics “summa cum laude” in 1990 at the University of Padua, Italy, after research at the US National Accelerator Laboratory (Stanford University) – funded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – and at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geneva, Switzerland. In 1996 he obtained a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. From 1997 to 2000 he worked at the University of Naples, Italy. Since 2000, he has been research scientist at ENEA, the Italian government’s agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development, where he develops laser sensors for environmental parameters and natural phenomena. He is adjunct professor at the LUMSA and Marconi Universities in Rome, and the Sophia University Institute near Florence, Italy. He has authored many articles, patents and texts. He represents Italy on the Arctic Council’s Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment Working Group and chairs the Interest Group on Coastal Zones of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories. Since the 1990s, he has been interested in ecology and is coordinator of the interdisciplinary initiative EcoOne (www.ecoone.org) and a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Catholic Climate Movement. Besides all this, he does an immense amount of work to make science easily understood.
