Luigi Mazari Villanova is a physicist.
He works in the Department of Earth System Science and Environmental Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy, supporting the activities of national projects and initiatives, with a penchant for automating the most of the boring operations.
He is the designer and is responsible for the webportal atlas.dta.cnr.it/pnra/,
that allows researchers and the administrative CNR staff to manage the research projects funded with the National Antarctic Research Program of Italy (PNRA). Since the call of 2009, the system managed more than 300 projects, accounting for more than 28M€ of total funding.
He worked in the CSA Oceans 1 & 2 european projects, and is now part of the CSA Bluemed project.
Being able to survive (and enjoy very much( a remote field on a Svalbard glacier after 4 hours on a snowmobile ride, supporting glaciologists in drilling an ice core to record past climates.
The next! And having a positive balance between disassembled non‑working things and things put together and working again.