Statistics
120 applications from participants.
31 needed a visa to come to Italy; 9 received it.
Result: 59 participants, 39 women and 20 men; median age 27 years.
Total of 100 people, 53 women and 47 men (+ about 10 unregistered companions).
From 27 different countries.
Italy 24, USA 20, Russia 10, Ukraine 4;
3 each from China, France, India, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, UK;
2 each from Canada, Germany, Israel;
1 each from Austria, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Finland, Iran, Kenia, Kosovo, Norway, Pakistan, Romania, Singapore, and South Africa.
List
AFAG AHMADOVA
PhD student, Academy of National Economy and Public Service under the President of the Russian Federation (Institute of Public Administration), Moscow
DAFINA ALIU
University of Trento/ Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies – Master’s in International Security Studies
ALEXEY ARBATOV
IMEMO, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
NADIA ARBATOVA
IMEMO, Institute for World Economy and International Relations, Moscow
ZAHRA BAGHERI
Researcher, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH)
ANNA BARTOUX
Belfer Young Leader at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
ELENA BATANI
Project Advisor, UNODA’s Regional Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean.
SIBYLLE BAUER
Director of Studies, Armament and Disarmament, SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute); Chair, EU Nonproliferation and Disarmament Consortium
SHOVAL BEN YAIR
MA student, Reichman University; Researcher, Institute for Intelligence Methodology, Herzliya, Israel
MICHELLE BLACK
PhD Visiting Research Fellow, Norwegian Defense University College, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science; Co-Director, Nebraska Deterrence Lab
STELLA LUNA BOEREBACH
Criminology student at the University of Leiden and criminal investigator
EMMA BOYLE
Graduate student, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
MARIANA BUDJERYN
Senior Researcher, Center for Nuclear Security Policy, SSP, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
FRANCESCO CALOGERO
Emer. Prof., Theoretical Physics, University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy; ISODARCO
MAR CASAS CACHINERO
Programme Manager for Proliferation and Nuclear Policy at RUSI, Royal United Services Institute, London
EMILY CHEESMAN
Graduate from Georgetown University, former Research Associate at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), CA
POUL CHRISTIANSEN
Program Director of the Pugwash Conferences in Science and World Affairs, London
LODOVICA CLAVARINO
ISODARCO Secretary, Italy; PhD in International History at Roma Tre University
JACK CRAWFORD
Research Fellow with Proliferation and Nuclear Policy research group, RUSI, Royal United Services Institute, London
DARRAGH CREAN
Researcher on nuclear non-proliferation and emerging technologies at Ridgeway Information, London
MARCO DE ANDREIS
Member of the Scientific Council of Italy’s Unione degli Scienziati per il Disarmo (Union of Scientists for Disarmament)
BARTU DORUK
Master of Biotechnology student at ETH Zurich
CHIARA EBNER
Policy Intern, Austrian Foreign Ministry | MA International Security & Conflict Studies, DCU, Dublin City University
MIRCO ELENA
Physicist, researcher (ret.) on materials science. Member of ISODARCO Board and USPID Scientific Council
IRINA ERSHOVA
Editor, Educational television programs and Chief Editor, “Cone Forest” Educational Journal, TPC Television Production Company, Moscow
CHIARA FARGNOLI
Policy Intern at BASIC (British American Security Information Council), London
ALAIZA FARID
School of Integrated Social Sciences (SISS), University of Lahore (UOL)
HÉLOÏSE FAYET
Head of Deterrence & Proliferation Research Program at Ifri, and PhD Candidate in Geopolitics at the French Institute of Geopolitics (University Paris 8). Fellow at YGLN
STEVE FETTER
Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
JOHN FLANAGAN
First-year MAIR candidate, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
PAUL FRAIOLI
Senior Fellow and Editor of Strategic Comments, IISS-Americas, Washington, DC
MANUEL GALILEO SPARTACO CHITI
SCRAP Weapons and The London School of Economics & Political Science
MATTHEW GENTZEL
Nuclear Weapons Policy Program Officer at Longview Philanthropy, Washington, DC
VALERIIA GERGIIEVA
PhD in Political Science, currently serves as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH) at the University of Hamburg
FRANCESCA GIOVANNINI
Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center, Harvard University, MA, USA
AYLIN GURZEL
Eastern Mediterranean University, Department of Political Science, Famagusta, North Cyprus
QINGLI WENDY HE
Research Fellow, Military Studies Programme, RSIS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
JOHN P. HOLDREN
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University; Co-Founder, Managing the Atom Project; BCSIA, Harvard Kennedy School
ALICIA HÖLTTÄ
Bachelor-level law student at the University of Eastern Finland and the President of the Finnish Space Law Association
HIBO HUSSEIN
Interests in gender and development, peace studies, Kenya
OLIVIA IBBOTSON
PhD Candidate at the Biological Security Research Centre, London Metropolitan University and Student/Young Pugwash Board member, UK
MARWA IBRAHIM
Politecnico di Milano; Lead Specialist, Rosatom ASE Branch, Egypt
MARYA KHAN
SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC. Researching international law, drone warfare, and human rights in conflict zones. Former Political Attaché at the UK Mission to Afghanistan
MARIA KHOROLSKAYA
PhD, Research Fellow, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russia
BOHDAN KOSTIUK
Analyst at Eastern Circles, non-resident fellow at Odesa Center for Non Proliferation; Member of the Younger Generation Leaders Network (London)
NATALIYA KUDRYASHOVA
Financial compliance professional, UK
MELIS EGE KUNT
Journalist, Turkey
ALEKSEI KUPRIIANOV
PhD (History), Head of the Centre for Indo-Pacific Region, IMEMO RAS, Moscow
SHREYA LAD
Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation; Predoctoral Fellow with the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, CA
DIEGO LATELLA
Formerly with CNR (ret.); ISODARCO; USPID. Computer Scientist, formerly with the Italian National Research Council, Pisa
ARIEL LEVITE
NPP, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; MTA, Belfer Center, HKS
LAURA LUCA
PhD candidate in Political Science at UCLA, Morgenthau Fellow at Notre Dame, and a guest scientist at Los Alamos National Lab
MIEKE MASSINK
Italian National Research Council, Computer Scientist. Senior Researcher with CNR, Pisa
SIVIWE MBOYANA
Honours student at the University of the Western Cape
Youth Advisory Board Member for Save the Children, South Africa
CELIA MCDOWALL
Research Assistant for the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She was previously a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow at CEIP, Washington, DC
ANTON MEIER
B.Sc (Hons) Political Science, MA Global Conflict in the Modern Era Candidate at Leiden University
STEVEN MILLER
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, MA
MASSIMO MORICHI
CAEN SyS, the Systems and Spectroscopy Division of CAEN S.p.A., specializes in radiological and nuclear (RN) detection and measurement solutions, Viareggio
MAX MOUTHAAN
3rd year student in Science, Business and Innovation, ‘vrije universiteit’, Amsterdam
ALLAN MYER
Raymond Frankel Foundation, CA
SOPHIA NAJAFI
London School of Economics, MSc History of International Relations, 2025, London.
VIPIN NARANG
MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
ALEXANDER NIKITIN
Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) under the Russian Foreign Ministry, and at the Higher School of Economics. Principal Researcher at IMEMO
GIUSEPPINA ORLANDINI
Senior Professor of Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics at University of Trento, Member of the Board of Directors of ISODARCO
LORENZO PAGANI
MA Student in Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Fiesole (Fi), Italy
ANKIT PANDA
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC,
ALESSANDRO PASCOLINI
Università di Padova
KAITLIN PEACH
Raymond Frankel Nuclear Security Policy Fellow; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, MA
PABLO JOSÉ PÉREZ CAÑAVATE
Graduate, Erasmus Mundus Master in Security, Intelligence, and Strategic Studies (IMSISS); research Fellow at the African Center for Science and International Security (AFRICSIS), Spain
LORENZO PICCIOLI
Journalist and Analyst, Formiche, Italy
KSENIIA PIRNAVSKAIA
Open Nuclear Network (ONN), Vienna
CARLOTTA PITTORI
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
TARIQ RAUF
Pugwash Council & former Head of Verification & Security Policy, IAEA
PETER RAUTENBACH
PhD researcher at the University of Leicester; AI-Nuclear Risk consultant working on Track II dialogues with INHR
ULYSSE RICHARD
Consultant in Science, Technology and International Security, UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, London, UK
MASSIMILIANO RINALDI
Department of Physics, University of Trento
LAURA ROCKWOOD
Vice President, Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM); Senior Fellow, VCDNP
CARLO SCHAERF
Professor of Physics, President of ISODARCO, Roma
LUDOVICA SCHAERF
Max Planck Society & University of Zurich
STEFANO SCHIAVO
Professor of Economics at the University of Trento, Research Fellow at OFCE-SciencesPo and member of the CESifo Research Network.
MACKENZIE SCHUESSLER
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace / George Mason University, Washington, DC
AMULPREET SINGH SETHI
Naval Veteran, India
MANPREET SETHI
Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi, India
Distinguished Fellow, CAPSS and Senior Research Advisor, APLN
POLINA SINOVETS
Director of the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation, Odesa Mechnikov National University
GIAN PIERO SIROLI
Researcher in High Energy Physics, Physics & Astronomy Dept. Univ Bologna, INFN (IT), CERN (CH) Computer Security Officer (CSO), Co-chair Pugwash WG on Emerging Technologies
ARTHUR SMULLEN
Arthur Smullen (UK), Haberdashers’ Boys’ School, Hertfordshire, England
PAUL SMULLEN
Information technology professional (UK)
ILLIA SNIGUR
Master’s Student in International Security, Sciences Po (PSIA).
VITTORIO SPROVIERI
Student, University of Bologna
DMITRI STEFANOVICH
Institute for World Economy and International Relations, IMEMO, Moscow
RAKEL SVENDSEN
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
CARLO TREZZA
Scientific Adviser, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome
EVE DUVAL TREZZA
Head of Alumni SAIS Johns Hopkins Chapter Rome
ALI VAEZ
International Crisis Group’s Iran Project Director and Senior Adviser to the President
ANA VENTURA BARROSO
Postdoctoral Researcher, Hamburg Nuclear Disarmament Laboratory (HaNDL)
ALINA VERNIGORA
Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Studies, Risk Assessment Group at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO), Moscow
ORYNA (ARINA) YEGOROVA
University of Bologna, student
ZHANG YU
Research staff at the center of strategic studies of the China Academy of Engineering Physics, Beijing
JINGDONG YUAN
Director and Senior Researcher, China and Asia Security Programs, SIPRI, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
XINYI YUAN
Senior research fellow at the center for strategic studies of the China Academy of Engineering Physics, Research staff at the China Academy of Engineering Physics, Strategic Studies Center, Beijing

