Strengthening of the Italian Research Infrastructure for Metrology and Open Access Data in support to the Agrifood
Italian National Institute of Metrology Research (INRiM)
INRiM is a public scientific research body, which performs the functions of national metrological institute for Italy, constituting the garrison of a large part of metrology, the science of measurements. INRiM realises, maintains and develops national reference standards for the seven base units of the International System (SI) - meter, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, mole and candela - and their respective derived units. Through these standards, it guarantees the reliability of the measures at a national level and their comparability at an international level. To meet the industrial needs, INRiM has a structure dedicated to technology transfer.
INRiM operates in support of the National Calibration System, guaranteeing the quality of metrological references and taking care of the dissemination of the national standards of the measurement units.
Andrea Mario Rossi
Is head of Chemical Physical and Nanotechnologies program at INRiM. He has received his doctorate in physics from the Polytechnic of Turin. In 1996 he received a scholarship “Marie Curie” and worked at the CIEMAT Madrid (ES) on solar cells. In 1999 he worked as a visiting researcher at the F. Julich (D) working on neuronal growth. In 2005 he worked three years as research associate at the University of Maryland and NIST (USA) working on the development of biosensors. He is the project leader of food safety Metrological infrastructure (IMPreSA), which aims to ensure compliance with international regulations and to support companies in the measures of innovative materials for food packaging and coordinates the EURAMET European Metrology Network on food safety. He is author of over 130 rated ISI publications (H26) and 4 patents.