Raffaele Calabretta

Raffaele Calabretta is an Associate Professor of Psychology of Communication at the International Telematic University UniNettuno and a Permanent Researcher at the Italian National Research Council's Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University (2012). His interdisciplinary research spans evolutionary modularity in artificial neural networks, intra-party democratic innovations, and cognitive modeling.

Dr. Calabretta developed 'doparies'—a post-election participatory mechanism for political parties that combines deliberation and voting to enhance citizen engagement. In artificial life, he has modeled how modularity evolves in neural networks to solve complex tasks. He authored the science-in-fiction novel 'Il film delle emozioni' (2006) and 'Doparie, dopo le primarie' (2010) on democratic innovations.