The Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics (DAIS), belonging to the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, focuses on biology and ecology, chemistry (environmental, analytical and for the conservation of cultural heritage), environmental engineering, computer science, earth science and statistics. Transversal topics include climate and the socio-economic effects of its transformations, complexity, preservation of cultural heritage, monitoring, risk, security, sustainability.

Main activities and roles in SUNRISE

UNIVE is the administrative coordinator of the project, participating two key scientific activities, bringing together the safety and sustainability aspects to assess the impact of advanced materials. In particular, key efforts will be devoted to support the selection of the environmental, health and safety (EHS) building blocks (e.g., assessment criteria, indicators, thresholds, classes, toolboxes etc., in WP2) and to support the identification of the sustainability building blocks (in WP3) to contribute to the Integrated Impact Assessment Framework (IIAF). To test and demonstrate the IIAF, UNIVE will also contribute to identify relevant case study materials and to generate comprehensive datasets to test the 3 tiers (i.e., qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative) of the IIAF.

Antonio Marcomini is Full Professor of Environmental Chemistry and vice-rector of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy). He has more than 30 years of experience in environmental analysis, impact and risk assessment of chemical contaminants and manufactured nanomaterials.