An open science leader with over twenty years of experience in the field, Dario has devoted his career to building programs, strategies, and solutions to transform scientific collaboration and knowledge production through principles of openness. He led a portfolio of partnerships and philanthropic investments in open science and open source at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, deploying over $130M in funding into software tools, platforms, and organizations that help scientists share data, knowledge, and resources openly and build on each other’s work. Prior to CZI, he served as the Head of Research at the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects.
He is the co-author of the Altmetrics Manifesto, a founder of the Initiative for Open Citations, a former Marie Curie fellow and ISI Foundation fellow. He held research and teaching positions at University College London, University of Surrey, Sciences Po, Paris Diderot University, and the Jean-Nicod Institute. He was trained as a behavioral and computational scientist and holds a PhD and MSc in Cognitive Science from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, an MA in Philosophy of Science from the University of Pisa and a licenza from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy.