The ISI Foundation, Institute for Scientific Interchange, was stablished in 1983 by the Regione Piemonte. Its core mission is the promotion of scientific research within the international cooperation, fostering the creation of research groups and of innovative and interdisciplinary labs, with a special focus on the science of complex systems. The science of complexity pursues, among others, the aim of creating a new connection between basic and applied science, helping to face and solve some of the essential issues of contemporary society. The challenge of complexity has now become a sort of paradigm of modernity, and Torino and Piemonte have nowadays become one of the most important international locations in such fundamental research. Thanks to the support of the public founding members and to the precious and continuous cooperation with the CRT Foundation (in particular with the Lagrange Project) and the San Paolo Company, the ISI Foundation was able to tackle, by new frontiers research projects, bold paths, settling itself among the main research centres for complexity. The success and richness of the research work at the ISI Foundation resides primarily in the “human factor” encompassing the scientific and personal value of its scientific and administrative staff, as well as the complex web of human relations that everyday brings the institute to life.

Board of trustees

• Mario Rasetti
  President
• Valentino Castellani
  Regione Piemonte
• Pietro Terna
  Provincia di Torino
• Piero Fassino
  Città di Torino
• Giovanni Ferrero
  Fondazione CRT

Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board is an independent body whose role is to define and provide strategic research lines. By continuously monitoring the research activities of the Foundation's research, it guarantees the high quality of its scientific production.

• Christopher Barrett
  Virginia Tech., VA
• Charles Bennett
  IBM, NY
• David Campbell
  Boston University, MA
• Mitchell Feigenbaum
  Rockefeller University, NY
• Julian Hunt
  University College of London, UK
• Tomaso Poggio
  M.I.T., Cambridge
• Frank Schweitzer
  ETH Zurich, CH
• Mario Rasetti
  President

Management

• Mario Rasetti
  President
• Alessandro Vespignani
  Scientific Director
• Ciro Cattuto
  Deputy Scientific Director
• Tiziana Bertoletti
  Executive Director
• Georgia Pesari
  Assistant to the Executive Director & Secretariat
• Enza Palazzo
  Research Projects
• Giuliana Antrilli
  Research Projects and Secretariat
• Anna Piergiovanni
  Administration
• Roberto Palermo
  Financial
• Gabriele Sorba
  Administration and Secretariat
• Federico Fornaro
  Lagrange Project
• Ezio Borzani
  IT
• Marco Perosa
  IT

Auditors of Accounts

• Luciano Cagnassone
  President
• Marco Isnardi
  Auditor
• Marco Ricciardiello
  Auditor