Chiara Di Giambattista graduated in Visual Arts at the University of Bologna with a thesis about UX Design semiotics in Digital Art. She is deeply passionate about the adaptive potential of language in all its forms, and has an extensive experience in web journalism and copywriting. She joined OpenCitations in 2021 to help with the dissemination and promotion of OpenCitations’ activities to the scholarly community. Outside of work, she enjoys hosting board game nights at her house, cooking for her friends, and going out for live stand-up comedy shows.

After a degree in Philosophy, a training course in librarianship and a diploma in archivistics, palaeography and diplomatics at the State Archive of Bologna school, he worked for many years as a university librarian. He is now the research manager for OpenCitations, for which he follows the financial and administrative side. Outside the office, he likes to cook, drink chilled white wine while listening to 80s music, and read books on any topic (except sports).

Ivan Heibi is a researcher at the Department of Classical and Italian Philology of the University of Bologna. His work mainly concerns the use of Semantic Web technologies in the analysis of the bibliographic entities and the academic publishing behaviours/dynamics. He joined OpenCitations in 2017, to work on the development of OpenCitations’ technical infrastructure. Ivan’s diverse interests and hobbies encompass delving into political and philosophical topics through reading, immersing himself in various artistic mediums, particularly photography, and maintaining an active and consistent sports life.

Arcangelo Massari holds a master’s degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge. He deals with Semantic Web technologies, focusing on bibliographic data and provenance management. He joined OpenCitations in 2021, to work on the publication OpenCitations Meta, a semantic database of scholarly metadata (released in December 2022). Since October 2022, Arcangelo has been pursuing a PhD in Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem at the University of Bologna, with the aim of creating tailor-made interfaces for curating metadata of museums, archives and libraries. In his free time, Arcangelo finds joy in exploring psychology and tickling the ivories of a piano.

Arianna has a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology, Religions, and Oriental Civilizations and a master’s degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge, specializing in Computational Thinking and Open Science. She has been working at OpenCitations as a thesis student first, then as a research fellow, and, since March 2023, she is a PhD student in Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem. In particular, she deals with software development for the ingestion of citation and bibliographic data and metadata, validation of persistent identifiers, and workflows for metadata crosswalks between different file formats and data models. In her spare time, she enjoys roller-skating, cross-stitching, and sewing (but she mainly repairs the damages caused by her kittens).

Elia Rizzetto was born in Friuli-Venezia Giulia in 1996. After completing the classical high school diploma, he enrolled in the faculty of Humanities at the University of Bologna, where he obtained his bachelor’s degree in 2019. In 2023, still at the University of Bologna, he earned his master’s degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge, with a thesis on Programming and Data Structures focusing on the validation of citation data and bibliographic metadata. Since May 2023, he has been working as a research fellow at OpenCitations. He likes to think of himself as the opposite of a tech bro, but he has still tried to learn rock climbing. Lately, he is trying to learn Modern Greek and experiment with microprocessors.

Marta Soricetti graduated in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge at the University of Bologna with a thesis project about the integration of the Japan Link Center’s Bibliographic Data into OpenCitations. Driven by the interest of developing software aligned with open science principles, she joined the OpenCitations team in 2024. Marta, as part of the GraspOS EU project, is currently contributing to the development of a tool designed to automatically annotate in-text citations in academic PDFs. When she is not at work, Marta enjoys traveling, experimenting with as many sport as possible, but at the same time unwinding with crochet projects.

Francesca Cappelli is a Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on studying Author Name Disambiguation solutions for digital libraries, with OpenCitations as a key case study. Until a few years ago, she was a passionate figure skater, and today she enjoys playing table football and spending time in nature with friends.

Lorenzo Paolini, PhD student in Data Science & Computation at the University of Bologna. His interests mainly revolve around Philosophy of Language, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Science.
He started to collaborate with OpenCitations in late 2022 while working on his Master Thesis on Citation Intent Classification with Language Models and Population-based optimization strategies.
He is currently working on Large Language Models (LLMs) for classification and generation tasks to extract and understand the semantic behind the act of referencing in research works.
In his free time, he loves doing sports, cooking, and playing Magic: The Gathering

Matteo Guenci holds a master degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge from the University of Bologna, where he completed a thesis on the automatic extraction of software mentions from scientific papers using LLMs. Passionate about open science and driven by a fascination with artificial intelligence, he is trying to develop expertise in AI and AI-driven analysis. In 2025, he joined OpenCitations to help simplify and enrich the building of citation networks, making data easier to parse, understand and reuse. Outside of his professional work, Matteo enjoys traveling, socializing over a pint with friends, doing physical activity in order to become ENORMOUS.

Mario graduated in DAMS (Drama, Art and Music Studies) at the University of Bologna, which he blames entirely on his passion for cinema and opera. Over the years, he completed various IT courses and picked up a few certifications along the way. In 2024, he joined OpenCitations team, focusing on Infrastructure as Code development. When he’s not contemplating the *NIX Terminal, you can find him rock climbing, playing foosball, engaging in airsoft games, or exploring Italian villages with a camera pretending he’s the next Cartier-Bresson (narrator: he isn’t)