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August 28, 2026Passion for wildlife conservationA conversation with Vandita Shukla, a researcher in the 3DOM Unit who came to FBK through the WildDrone project: the new frontier of engineering that protects nature. Originally from India, she has found fertile ground in Trento to specialize and pursue her interests -
August 27, 2026The TRAVEL project beginsAn international team led by FBK-ISIG researcher Sandra Toffolo will study travel, mobility, and encounters between people in Italy during the early modern period. We asked her a few questions ahead of the project’s launch. The project received significant funding from the Italian Science Fund. -
August 21, 2026Artificial intelligence: balancing efficiency and responsibilityStarting at FBK and now a PhD student at Mila in Montreal, with several professional experiences in the United States, Francesco Paissan studies how to make AI interpretable and safe. -
August 20, 2026The AI that thinks: double international recognition for Luciano SerafiniThe FBK researcher was invited to give a talk at the world’s leading scientific conference on artificial intelligence and received recognition for his pioneering contributions to neuro-symbolic AI, which combines learning from data with logical reasoning -
August 19, 2026Mass spectrometry in the palm of your handAs part of a project by NanoTech Analysis, FBK has developed the microfabrication process and produced an initial series of components in its Clean Rooms to miniaturize instruments that will facilitate non-invasive diagnostics. -
August 19, 2026New avenues for agriculture and research in TrentinoIrrigation, climate, pruning, and technology transfer: four FBK projects featured in four episodes of the TV33 show " Nuove Strade - l'agricoltura che cresce (New avenues – growing agriculture) -
August 18, 2026In praise of fragility and lonelinessA reflection on the relational void of social media -
August 18, 2026Kabuki syndrome, the key role of chromatinAt the root of this rare genetic disorder, which affects one in every 30,000 people, is a deficiency in a protein that helps protect cells from mechanical stress. FBK is part of the international research team coordinated by Alessio Zippo with the University of Trento. The study, published in The EMBO Journal, opens up new treatment avenues -
August 13, 2026Stable employment encourages the decision to become a parentThe results of a scientific study focusing on the Italian academic community have been published in PLOS ONE. Women face greater obstacles because they experience longer periods of job insecurity than men -
August 11, 2026The role of rationality in modern roboticsLeslie Pack Kaelbling is a Professor at MIT. Her research agenda is to make intelligent robots using methods including learning, planning, and reasoning about uncertainty. She was working on agentic AI way before it became fashionable. On 29 May 2026 we met her at FBK where she held a seminar co-organized with AIXIA, the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. -
August 6, 2026Artificial intelligence for emergency medicine: Pietro Ferrazzi’s researchTransforming clinical documentation into structured data to advance research -
August 6, 2026From WebValley to MLCast: the new portal for the European nowcasting community is now liveDeveloped as part of WebValley 2026, the site combines open science and artificial intelligence to make very short-term weather forecasting models more accessible -
August 3, 2026July 2026: FBK projects making headlinesFrom digital health to mountain rescue, combating online hate, technology transfer, and the new Hydrogen Hub, FBK research was once again featured prominently in national and local media throughout July