Short bio

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 Head of Research at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects. 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 in Paris, an MA in Philosophy of Science from the University of Pisa, and a licenza from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy.