Pietro Antonioli

Pietro, who is from Italy, is an elementary particle physicist working in Bologna as researcher for the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics. During the 1990s he joined the Amnesty International Italy board, where he served as vice-chair. At the international level, he was a member from 2001 to 2003 of the Standing Committee on Research and Action and in 2004 joined the board of the Amnesty International European Union Association, which he became chair of in 2006. He was elected to the IEC in August 2007.