Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering

Her research focuses on methodological and empirical studies in productivity and efficiency analysis and performance measurement; development of indicators for the quantitative analysis and evaluation of science, technology higher education and research policy, data quality and data integration. 

 

She has been member of Expert Groups of the European Commission, namely “Building Composite Indicator(s) on the European Research Area (ERA) implementation”, Directorate General for Research and Innovation (November 2013-October 2014) and of the “Expert Group to support the development of tailor-made impact assessment methodologies for ERA”, Directorate General for Research and Innovation (December 2013-October 2014).

She has been appointed as a member of the Commission of Experts for the Evaluation of the Third Mission Activities (CETM) by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutions (ANVUR) from October 2015 to May 2017.

She has a consolidated experience in international and national research projects, including PRIME (Policies for the Research in the Move towards the European Research Area) Network of Excellence, Aquameth (Advanced Quantitative Methods for the Evaluation of the Performance of Public Sector Research) that she co-coordinated; OEU (Observatory on the European University) and ENID (European Network of Indicator Designers); Changes in University Incomes tender (CHINC); Innovation Studies (iRiS) Project on “Reorganization of public research’s technological transfer system: governance, tools and strategies” and EUMIDA (European Universities Micro Data) Feasibility Study. In particular, in EUMIDA she was national contact point for Italy and coordinated the data collection for Italy through the National Statistical Authority.

 

She coordinated or is coordinating, or is responsible of the Research unit of Sapienza, in the following projects:

 

2019-2022                               Evaluating Evaluations by Including Normative Ethics, Management Science and Artificial Intelligence in a Visual Analytics Environment (EVAL^2), Progetti di Ricerca Medi Sapienza 2019, N. Protocollo RM11916B8853C925 (11/12/2019-10/12/2022). Coordinator of the project.

2019-2022                               Research infrastructures for the assessment of science, technology and innovation policy 2 (RISIS 2), Grant agreement N° 824091, European Union H2020 Project. Responsible of the research unit of Sapienza university of Rome.

2017-2019                               Member of the Steering Committee and responsible of the research unit of Sapienza university of Rome in the European project  “Implementation and Further Development of the European Tertiary Education Register ETER III, Contract No. 934533-2017 A08-CH”, (22/12/2017-22/12/2019).

2017-2021                               Modelling and Mapping the Dynamics of Knowledge. A Co-Creation Indicators Factory Design, Progetti H2020 Sapienza 2017 Awards, N. Protocollo PH11715C8239C105 (21/11/2017-20/11/2021). Scientific coordinator of the project.

2017-2020                               KOL Project to support the KIMAR Project, Clarivate Analytics (ex Thomson Reuters), USA. Principal Investigator.

2017-2020                               PRIN 2015 Prot. 2015RJARX7 Comparing Governance Regime Changes in Higher Education: systemic performances, national policy dynamics, and institutional responses. A multidisciplinary and mixed methods analysis. Responsible of the research unit of Sapienza university of Rome (5 February 2017 -5 February 2020).

Jan 2016-June 2018            Research infrastructures for the assessment of science, technology and innovation policy (RISIS), Grant agreement N° 313082 project of the EU FP7 Research Program. Responsible of the research unit of Sapienza university of Rome.

2015-2017                               Member of the Steering Committee and responsible of the research unit of Sapienza university of Rome in the European project "Implement and Disseminate the European Tertiary Education Register (ETER 2015-2017)", Contract No. EAC-2015-0280, (1-8-2015/31-7-2017).

2015-2018                               Scientific coordinator of the Sapienza Project Award Ateneo Sapienza Grandi Progetti Awards 2015 (C26H15XNFS): Establishing a Knowledge Infrastructure for the Development of Methodologies for the Assessment of Research and its Impacts (KIMAR, 30-11-2015/29-11-2018).

2013-2016                               Scientific coordinator of the Sapienza Project Award Ateneo Sapienza 2013 (C26A13ZXRY) Efficiency, Effectiveness and Impact of Universities and Schools (18-12-2013/17-12-2016).

2013-2015                                Member of the Steering Committee and responsible of the research unit of Sapienza university of Rome in the European project  "European Tertiary Education Register (ETER)", Contract No. EAC-2013-038 (1-8-2013/31-7-2015).

2012-2017                               Scientific coordinator of the Elsevier Bibliometric Research Project: Assessing the Scientific Performance of Regions and Countries at Disciplinary level by means of Robust Nonparametric Methods: new indicators to measure regional and national Scientific Competitiveness.

2004- 2007                             Co-coordinator (with A. Bonaccorsi) of the projects AQUAMETH (Advanced Quantitative Methods for the evaluation of the performance of Public Sector Research), AQUAMETH II and AQUAMETH II Consolidation, nell’ambito del FP6-2002-CITIZENS-1 Policies For Research and Innovation in the Move Towards the European Research Area (PRIME), 1/4/2004-30/9/2007.

2006- 2010  Scientific coordinator of the project “Metodi Avanzati di Benchmarking per la valutazione delle aziende sanitarie toscane”; commissionato dal Laboratorio di Management e Sanità (MES) della Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, in collaborazione con la Regione Toscana. Fine della prima fase: Aprile 2007. Fase 2: maggio 2007-novembre 2008. Fase 3: maggio 2009-febbraio 2010.

2003 Scientific coordinator of the project Giovani Ricercatori dal titolo: “Analisi di Efficienza/Produttività: studio delle possibilità offerte dalla statistica nonparametrica e dalle tecniche di bootstrap; analisi dei vincoli alle applicazioni empiriche; proposizione di applicazioni economiche”, finanziato dalla Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa.

 

 

 

2003-2014 External member of the Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, and since 2015 research affiliate of the Institute of Economics of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.

 

 

She has been selected and is listed in Who’s Who in The World (since the 2007 Edition) and in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (since the 10th Edition of the 2007-2008) edited by Marquis Inc.

 

AWARDS

Cinzia Daraio is listed in the World Top 2% Scientists, in the field of Social Sciences, sub-fields Information and Library Science and Science Studies, from 2020 (last update published on October 4, 2023 available at the following website https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6 ).

The World Top 2% Scientists is a ranking developed by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier and Scopus; it aims to identify, among the approximately 9 million scientists who contribute scientific articles, the top 2% for each discipline in terms of their impact on global scientific research over the past year.