Research
Research focuses on sustainability through solar energy and materials
science; and on systems thinking in management and in science methodology.
Solar Energy
The research groups of Mario Pagliaro at Italy's CNR and Leonardo Palmisano at Palermo's University teamed to establish Sicily's Photovoltaics Research Pole. Mission: to facilitate adoption of solar energy by companies and families in Italy to benefit from the economic, social and environmental opportunities offered by solar energy.
Systems Thinking
Under the guidance of Ignazio Licata (full professor of theoretical physics at Pal Harbor, USA), research focuses on mathematical models in theoretical biology and cognitive epistemology. The chosen areas are strongly interdisciplinary ones: bio and quantum computing, nanotechnologies, symbolic and sub-symbolic systems for knowledge representation, quantum systemics.