Team.

Elisabetta Bini

Elisabetta Bini is Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research focuses on the history of the Cold War and the history of international energy policies. She is the author of Energia nucleare e ambiente. L’Italia degli anni Settanta-Ottanta (Roma, Carocci, 2025) and La potente benzina italiana. Guerra fredda e consumi di massa tra Italia, Stati Uniti e Terzo mondo (1945–1973) (Roma, Carocci, 2013). She is the co-editor of Les territoires des transitions énergétiques. Nucléaire et énergies renouvelables en Italie et en France (with C. Mattina, B. Curli and P. Fournier) (Paris, Karthala, 2023); Working for Oil: Comparative Social Histories of Labor in the Global Oil Industry (with T. Atabaki and K. Ehsani) (New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); Nuclear Italy: An International History of Italian Nuclear Policies during the Cold War (Trieste, EUT, 2017), Scienziati e Guerra fredda. Tra collaborazione e diritti umani (with E. Vezzosi) (Rome, Viella, 2020), and Oil Shock: The Crisis of 1973 and its Economic Legacy (with F. Romero and G. Garavini) (London, I.B. Tauris, 2016). Inside the PRIN 2022, she coordinates the University of Naples Federico II unit, which focuses on the environmental and territorial dimensions of nuclear deindustrialization.  

Mauro Elli

Mauro Elli, associate professor of Contemporary History, is research director of the project La lunga transizione: i nodi tecno-politici dello sviluppo delle fonti energetiche rinnovabili in Italia nel contesto comunitario [The long transition. Techno-political issues of renewable energy sources in Italy against the Common background] financed by the Italian Ministry of University and unit leader in the national research project PRIN2022 Nuclear deindustrialization. Human capital, business restructuring, and environmental change in Italy (1971-1999). His research interests deal with the reciprocal feedback between foreign policy and technology during the Cold War, notably nuclear power developments and the aviation industry; the role of scientists and experts in political decision-making processes; scientific diplomacy. Main publications include: Politica estera ed ingegneria nucleare. I rapporti del Regno Unito con l’Euratom (1957- 1963), Unicopli, Milano, 2007; Atomi per l’Italia. La vicenda politica, industriale e tecnologica della centrale nucleare di Latina 1956-1972, Unicopli, Milano, 2011; Nuclear Power in the 1980s. The Guangdong Project and the Opening of China, in E. Bussière – A. Beltran – G. Garavini (eds.) L’Europe et la question énergétique: les années 1960/1980, Lang, Bruxelles, 2016, pp. 193-214; Adapting to a Bearish Nuclear Market: The Transition of Framatome in the 1980s, in A. Beltrain – L. Laborie – P. Lanthier – S. Le Gallic, Electric Worlds/Mondes électriques. Creations, circulations, tensions, transitions (19th-21th Centuries), Lang, Bruxelles, 2016, pp. 535-558. 

Adna Čamdžić 

Adna Čamdžić is a doctoral candidate at the University of Turin in Italy. She has obtained a master’s degree in Compared Analysis of Mediterranean Societies with a thesis on memory politics in post-war contexts. She is currently working on the history of nuclear deindustrialization in Italy from a global perspective, drawing from the history of science and technology and from deindustrialization studies to address the construction of socio-ecological and techno-political futures connected to nuclear phase-out. Her research interests concern industrial decline and heritage-making, collective memories and energy futures.

Andrea Carnì

Andrea Carnì is a post-doctoral fellow in Contemporary History at the University of Turin (Prin 2022) and lecturer in “Organized crime and research methodology” at the University of Milan.

Previously, he was a researcher and academic expert in History of International Relations at the University of Milan. In April 2021, he was awarded a PhD in Studies on Organised Crime for a thesis on the international trafficking of Italian toxic and radioactive waste in the second half of the 1980s. The thesis was awarded the “Saperi per la legalità: Giovanni Falcone” prize. His research and main publications focus on the history of Italian environment, on history of Italian foreign policy during 1980s, on the illegal trafficking of hazardous and radioactive waste and on organised crime and mafia. Among his recent publications: Ships of death. Il traffico internazionale di rifiuti tossico-nocivi e radioattivi italiani in Libano, Nigeria e Somalia (1987-1992) (2024); The Italian Waste Scandal: le «navi dei veleni», le tensioni diplomatiche e la reazione normativa italiana (1987-90)” (in “Meridiana. Rivista di storia e scienze sociali”, 2024); Storie di contrasto alla criminalità ambientale: la “Forestale di Brescia” (1985-1995) (in T. Aureliani, S. Cannavò (a cura di), Criminalità ambientale in Lombardia, 2023); Alle origini della Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta sul ciclo dei rifiuti. Genesi, componenti e attività (1994-96) (in “Meridiana. Rivista di storia e scienze sociali”, n. 106, 2023).

Lorenzo Meli

Lorenzo Meli (Milan, 1987) is currently (since February 2024) Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Milan.

He previously has been researcher at Fondazione Trentina Alcide De Gasperi (2018-2020), and research fellow at Giunta Storica Nazionale (Rome, 2022-2023). He obtained his PhD in Contemporary History at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Milan in September 2017. Since January 2013 he is member of the Centre for Foreign Politics Studies of the same University, and in July 2015 he joined the Secretariat of worldwide Commission of History of International Relations - CHIR (Commission voting in the General Assembly of International Committee of Historical Sciences/ICHS). From 2019 to 2022 he has been adjunct professor of Contemporary History at the University of Milan.

His main research interests focus on European integration process and on the role played by Italy in this context, and more generally on the history of international relations during Cold War. Besides several scientific articles, he has published Lorenzo Natali e la politica comunitaria. L “altra” Italia in Europa (1977-1988), Milano University Press, Milano 2024 and, as coeditor (with L. VALENT), Anni cruciali. La fine della guerra fredda e l’inizio del nuovo ordine mondiale, 1975-1983, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2024.

Chiara Zampieri

Chiara Zampieri is a post-doctoral fellow in Contemporary History at the University of Naples Federico II. In 2022-2023 she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Italian-German Historical Institute/FBK of Trento, in 2021-2022 she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Roma Tre, in 2018-2019 she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Padua. Her research and main publications focus on the history of the political cultures of republican Italy, on the anti-terrorism policies of the 1970s, on the environment, and on public finance. Among her recent publications: Alla prova del terrorismo: la legislazione dell’emergenza e il dibattito politico italiano (1978-1982) [At the test of terrorism: the emergency legislation and the Italian political debate (1978-1982)], Carocci, 2024; Esser donne e comuniste. Storia delle donne del Pci di Padova (1921-1991) [Being women and communists. History of the women of the Italian Communist Party of Padua (1921-1991)], il Prato, 2022; Moro, Aldo, Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Aldo Moro, Sezione I, Scritti e Discorsi, Vol. 4, Il ritorno al centro-sinistra e la “solidarietà nazionale” giugno 1973-maggio 1978 [National Edition of the Writings of Aldo Moro, Section I, Writings and Speeches, Vol. 4, The return to the centre-left and “national solidarity” June 1973-May 1978], a cura di G. Formigoni, A. Giovagnoli, Edizione e nota storico-critica di Chiara Zampieri, Università di Bologna, 2021.

Barbara Curli

Professor of History, University of Torino, and Coordinator of the Ph.D. Programme in “Global History of Empires”. Member of the Comité d’Histoire de l’énergie et de l’électricité, Fondation EdF (Electricité de France), Paris, and of the Editorial Boards of Revue d’Histoire de l’énergie/Journal of Energy History and Italia contemporanea. Recent publications include: Il progetto nucleare italiano, 1952-1964. Conversazioni con Felice Ippolito, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2022 (2nd ed., 1st ed. 2000); Les territoires des transitions énergétiques. Socio-histoire localisée du nucléaire et des énergies renouvelables en Italie et en France, (with Cesare Mattina, Elisabetta Bini, Pierre Fournier), Aix-en-Provence, Karthala, éditions de la MMSH, 2023; The Origins of Euratom’s Research on Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion: Cold War Politics and European Integration, 1958-68, Contemporary European History, 2024, 33, 1, pp. 267-285; Atoms for Industry. The Early Nuclear Activities of Fiat and the Atoms for Peace Program in Italy, 1956-1959, in: The Journal of Cold War Studies, 25, 3, Summer 2023, pp. 68-88, special issue on Atoms for Peace, Nuclear Technology, and the Cold War (ed. P. Josephson).