Prof. Andrea Nanetti

The Silk Road – A Showcase for Heritage Science

Dr. Andrea Nanetti received his university education in Historical Sciences between 1986 and 2000 in Italy, France, Germany, Greece, and USA, where he has been instructed to work on research questions and solutions through the cross-fertilization of different methodologies (historical, philological, diplomatic, aesthetic, anthropological, and computational). He pioneered digital humanities projects for archival documents (1997-1999 State Archive in Venice and 2005-2010 State Archive in Ravenna), chronicles (2002-2004 Virtual Library of Venetian Chronicles), historical maps (2000, Imola from Leonardo da Vinci to today), and pre-modern historical primary sources (2007-today, cloud platform for Afro-Eurasia).

His academic research has been supported by his entrepreneurial experience, which started in 2001, when he was awarded a prize in the “StartCup” of the University of Bologna and the General Confederation of the Italian Industry (the first Italian business plan competition devoted to projects with high content of knowledge) to establish Meduproject Pte Ltd. In 2002 the company was founded as a spin-off of the University of Bologna focused on projects at the interface of cultural heritage and S&T: access to heritage, networking of conservation-restoration experts, and support to heritage management (advisor to public and private institutions in strategic decisions). Dr Nanetti lives with his family in Singapore, in the Nanyang Technological University campus, where he serves as Tenured Associate Professor and Associate Chair (Research) at the School of Art, Design and Media. Internationally, he currently serves as Founding Co-Director (International Relations) of the International Research Centre for Architectural Heritage Conservation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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The Silk Road – A Showcase for Heritage Science