Dario Martinelli

Prof. Dr. Dario Martinelli (1974) is Director of the International Semiotics Institute, Full Professor at Kaunas University of Technology, Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Helsinki and Lapland, and Editor-in-chief of the Springer series "Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress". As of 2017, he has published twelve monographs and about 120 among edited collections, studies and scientific articles. Besides his affiliations, he has been visiting professor in four academic institutions, and has been giving ca. eighty lecture courses in fourteen different academic institutions in Europe. He has been recipient of several prizes, including, in 2006, a knighthood from the Italian Republic for his contribution to Italian culture.​