Silvio Peroni

Silvio Peroni is an Associate Professor in Informatics at the University of Bologna, Italy. He serves as the Director of OpenCitations, a community-driven open infrastructure project for scholarly citation data. His work bridges academic research and practical implementation in open science initiatives, including collaborations with projects like LUMEN (funded by Horizon Europe) and the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.

Research interests span Open Science, Informatics, and knowledge graph development for scholarly data interoperability. He focuses on systematic approaches to open citation data, semantic web technologies, and community-led infrastructure for research evaluation. Through OpenCitations, he emphasizes transparency in financial operations and sustainable open science practices.

Peroni actively contributes to academic discourse via webinars, conference presentations (e.g., CSVConf, WOOC2025), and workshops on semantic data standards. He advocates for institutional policies supporting open research information systems and co-designs infrastructures like the LUMEN Infrastructure for Semantics (LUMIS).