Future anti-terrorism and public health CBRNe scenarios

Claudio Calace Salvemini is a licensed pharmaceutical doctor and a certified CBRNe safety & security and CiMiC (Civil-Military Collaboration) advisor and analyst. He earned a Pharmaceutical doctor & industrial pharmacy title in 2017 at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Nottingham (UK), specializing in antiviral chemotherapy, neurotoxicology and applied pharmacoeconomics. Subsequently attended several university master degrees and courses within which: the NATO second level master course in CBRNe events management for advisors of the decision makers at University of Rome Tor Vergata, CBRNe Inspection Regime and Enforcement by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Civil-Military Cooperation course at the Italian Center for Defence studies (CASD), Confidential & secreted documents management in emergency and crisis by the Italian Department of Information for Security (DIS), and other risk management OSINT and TECHINT courses at several Italian and International institutions. In 2018 he became a founder, with other international colleagues, of the CBRNe SecAdvisory Group, a consultancy firm which focuses on industrial procedures GMP, ISO 45001, and on chemical/biological threat assessment, risk management and analysis. At the time, he is a free-lance reasearcher and consultant for Italian Governmental Organizations, the European Commission’s International Projects, and international private firms in the chemical, pharmaceutical and CBRNe, academical and operational, field. He is joining the International Security & Intelligence Program 2022 at Yale University and will continue specializing with several Italian Armed Forces & NATO operational courses for CBRNe Security & Intelligence Advisors.

Damiano Giuseppe Ferrari was born in Verona in 1994. He studied at the Liceo Scientifico Statale Jacopo Da Ponte in Bassano del Grappa and he continued his studies at the University of Parma, where he obtained his bachelor degree in chemistry in 2017. In the same University he achieved the master degree in biomolecular chemistry in 2019, specializing in the field of organic chemistry. In 2020 he obtained the qualification of chemist and he was co-author of a scientific paper, published on «Catalysis» of MDPI. In the same year he enrolled in the second level master’s course Protection Against CBNRe Events at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he was awarded with his diploma the next year (2021). He worked for the University of Ottawa for four months and in 2022 he joined the Italian Navy as an officer for a thirty months military draft. He resulted as winner of the competition for AUFP officer of the Italian Navy in 2021.