Simone Neri Serneri University of Siena Department of Historical, Legal, Political and Social Sciences Via P.A. Mattioli 10 53100 Siena, Italy neriserneri@unisi.it

Simone Neri Serneri is Full Professor for Contemporary History in the Faculty of Political Sciences, and Director of the Section for Contemporary History, in the Post-Graduate School for History, Law and Geographical Studies, at the University of Sienna (Italy).

Born in 1955, Neri Serneri graduated in Humanities in 1981 at the University of Florence and received his Ph.D in History from the University of Pisa (Italy) in 1987. Trained as political historian, he published three books and many articles on 20th century Italian history.
Since almost two decades Neri Serneri involved in contemporary environmental history, with a special coverage of the urban and industrial environmental history of late 19. and 20. centuries Italy. His publications in the field include the book Incorporare la natura. Storie ambientali del Novecento (Rome, 2005), and two edited volumes: Storia del territorio e storia dell'ambiente. La Toscana contemporanea (Milan, 2002), Storia e ambiente. Città, risorse e territori nell’Italia contemporanea (Rome, 2007, edited with G. Corona). Currently he is researching the environmental role of industry in the XX century and he is editing (with S. Adorno) a collection of essays on the environmental history of the mains industrial areas in Italy.
In recent years Neri Serneri developed a greater attention to global and world-history and their methodological implications on contemporary history.

Neri Serneri served as promoter or member of the scientific committee in several projects and conferences, at national and European level. Since 1998 he contributed to the series of the "International Round-Tables on Urban Environmental History of the 19th and 20th Century", and he particularly coordinated the Third Round Table, hold in Siena in June 2004.
He is Co-editor of the leading Italian historical journal "Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell'800 e del 900" (Il Mulino) and member of the editorial board of journals as "Italia contemporanea" and "I frutti di Demetra".

As Regional Representative for Italy, Neri Serneri is member of the Board of the European Society for Environmental History. He is also affiliated to the Italian Society for Contemporary History (Sissco) and the Italian Society for Urban History (Aisu).