SANDRO DERNINI, PhD

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Detailed CV 

Since early 2000, Dr. Dernini is fostering an enduring transdisciplinary dialogue among international and Mediterranean experts on the revitalization of the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable diet model in the context of the improvement of the sustainability of food systems in the Mediterranean region.

Sandro Dernini, Ph.D.

40  years’ experience in the organization and scientific coordination of more 20 international conferences and more than 100 art& science events.

Doctorate in Biology, School of Science, University of Cagliari, Italy (1974)

PhD. in Art Education, School of Education, New York University (1997)

In 2014, he received the Award of Excellence in Food Sustainability by IACON-SENC at the Third World Conference of Public Health Nutrition in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. In 2021, he received the Ancel and Margaret Keys Award at the 2nd International Agrobioversity Congress.

Since early 90’s, Dr. Dernini is fostering an enduring transdisciplinary dialogue among international and mediterranean experts, from different disciplines and cultures,  for the revitalization of the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable development resource towards more sustainable food systems, from consumption to producrion, in the Meditarranean region.

• President Plexus International Forum Onlus
• President of the Forum on Mediterranean Food Cultures
• Senio Advisor, CIHEAM-Bari
• General Secretary of the International Foundation of the Mediterranean Diet – IFMeD
• International Consultant FAO, 2010-2017
• Coordinator of the CIISCAM-International Interuniversity Studies Centre on Mediterranean Food Cultures, at Sapienza University of Rome, 2006-2012
• Professor, School of Specialization in Food Science, Sapienza University of Rome, 2011-2012

• Head, President Technic Secretariat, INRAN-Italian National  Research Institute on Food and Nutrition, actually CREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, 2007-2010

He published as author or co-editor 6 books and more than 60 scientific articles on the Mediterranean diet and sustainable diets . From 1974 to 1979, as assistant professor of prof. Carlo De Marco, former Dean of the School of Medicine,  Sapienza University of Rome, he published 21 articles in international and national journals in the field of qualitative and quantitative sulfur aminoacids separations.

 Since early 80s, Sandro Dernini is coordinating   Plexus International, an informal network of artists and scientists that is still playing a seminal role in the conception and realization of  numerous collaborative,  cross-cultural, art&science events, linking the notion of  "art" and “food” to  the concept of  "well-being" - as a multicultural paradigm enhancing the quality of life in the community.