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G.S.I.C.A. - Gruppo Scientifico Italiano Confezionamento Alimentare
Address: Via del Cairo, 34
City: 21100 Varese (VA)
Country: Italy
G.S.I.C.A. is the "Italian Scientific Group for Food Packaging".
The team was founded by some researchers, working either in public or private structures. Since the beginning, its mission was to implement education plans in food packaging. The meetings organized by this group of scientists always achieve good success, proving a specific need of communication within the food packaging community. It aims to create a useful and positive fellowship among all the scientists working in food packaging; also, its main efforts are to spread a scientific culture and promote progress in this research area, representing italian research on the international scene. The same philosophy is shared by Artek, which focuses its attention on food packages through its editorial products and communication projects. From the alliance between GSICA and Artek springs the idea to found GSICA Association, in order to enlarge GSICA activity and manage all the resources at best.
Board of directors
Chairman: Luciano Piergiovanni
Vice-chairman: Matteo Alessandro Del Nobile
Treasurer: Sara Limbo
Counsellors: Margherita Squarzoni; Simona Colli; Gianluigi Vestrucci; Luisa Torri; Patrizia Fava, Giuseppe Muratore
Clerk: Maria Rosa Baroni
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Matteo Alessandro Del Nobile, who received the PhD Degree in Materail Science from the University of Naples “Federico II”, is now working at the University of Foggia as Associate Professor. The main areas of interest include mass diffusion through polymeric materials and packaging structure design. Most of his efforts were put forward to determine the relationships existing between physical and chemical structure of polymers and their mass transport properties. This topic has been approached both from a theoretical and from an experimental point of view. The knowledge gained studying mass transport phenomena through polymer has been applied to develop tools packaging structure the design. He has published over 100 papers on topics related to polymer science and food science.
Luciano PIERGIOVANNI was born in 1950, is married and has two children. He is Full Professor of "Food Packaging and Distribution" in the State University of Milan. He develops his activity of teacher and researcher in the Department of Food Science & Microbiology (diSTAM), within the Faculty of Agriculture since 1975. He has been visiting professor in the Universities of San Paolo (Brasil) in 1990 and 1995 and Santafè de Bogotà (Colombia) in 1986 and 1995. He has been member of the Directive Council of the Italian Institute of Packaging from 1989 to 1991 and vice-President in the 1985/86. From 1989 to 1994 acted as chairman of the “Food Packaging Committee” within UNI, Italian Standards Organisation. Currently is member of the Directive Council of AITA, the “Italian Association of Food Technology” and co-ordinates the “Italian Scientific Group for Food Packaging” (GSICA). He belongs to the Editorial Boards of "Packaging Technology and Science", “Industria delle Conserve” and "Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences". He is author of almost two hundred works among scientific publications, communications to conferences, technical and popular articles. The main themes of his research activity are: modified atmosphere packaging of perishable foods, modelling and forecasting of foods shelf-life in flexible packaging, validation of new materials and techniques.
Anna Meroni
Architect and designer, Anna Meroni is a researcher in industrial design. Her activity is focused on product system innovation, concentrating on food systems. She is a project research and strategical innovation consultant for many universities, research centers and industries. She is founder of "Studio design" and a teacher of Industrial Design at Politecnico di Milano. Also, she teaches in international masters and workshops.
Gianluigi Vestrucci
Since 1998, Gianluigi Vestrucci is the leader of Chemical Physical and Microbiology Department at the CSI Spa, where he’s also in charge for Guarantee of Quality. He is an expert in food packaging, with special regard to materials and packaging systems. Through his expertise he got many qualifications, as Responsible for inspective tests in quality systems and as Inspector for products certification. He is member of Italian Packaging Institute and lecturer at the University of Parma, Faculty of Chemistry.
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