Alessandra Bonazza is responsible for the research unit “Impact on Environment, Cultural Heritage and Health” at CNR-ISAC and is a Professor of Environmental Impact on Materials, Deterioration and Ageing at the University of Bologna. A principal investigator in several EC Projects, she recently coordinated the study funded by DG-EAC, “Safeguarding Cultural Heritage from Natural and Man-Made Disasters”, as well as the Interreg Central Europe projects ProteCHt2save and STRENCH (STRENgthening resilience of Cultural Heritage at risk in a changing environment through proactive transnational cooperation). She has been a member of the "Copernicus Cultural Heritage Task Force". Her academic background is in geology, though she has worked in the field of heritage science for her entire career, moving from building material characterization to the evaluation of pollution and climate impacts on monuments and archaeological sites.