Advisory Board

Advisers are scientists of renown nominated by the Board, the Officers, the Directors and/or individuals collaborating with the Institute, and appointed by the Board as consultants on matters that are essential for the research activity of the Institute and require highly specialized knowledge.

RALPH JACKSON

Curator of the Romano-British Collections and Head of the First Millennium Group, British Museum, London, UK.

W. JOHN KRESS

Curator of Botany and Director of the new Consortium for Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

ROBERT 'Jay' Malone 

Executive Director of the History of Science Society, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

JOHN MONFASANI

Distinguished Professor of History, The University at Albany, State University of New York, NY.

 Marie-Hélène Marganne

Director of CEDOPAL (Centre de Documentation de Papyrologie Littéraire), University of Liège, Belgium.

ANDREA PIERONI

Associate Professor of Plant Biology and Ethnobotany at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo/Bra (CN), Italy.

VASSILIKI BETTY SMOCOVITIS

Professor of History of Science, Distinguished Alumni Professor, 2009-2011, Departments of Biology and History, University of Florida at Gainesville, FL.

CHARLOTTE TANCIN

Librarian and Senior Research Scholar at Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.