Carolina Manfredini
Carolina has been a post-doc researcher and data steward at the University of Milan since 2023. She obtained a PhD in Historical and Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bologna (2023), plus an MA in Historical Sciences (2019) and a BA in Cultural Heritage Studies (2016), both from the University of Milan. Her research studies are focused on the early Renaissance Milanese public health and welfare facilities, along with ducal material and cultural communication strategies. As a data steward, she provides support to her academic community on FAIR research data management and in the use of the institutional data repository; plus, she is involved in the development of Open Science initiatives, in the delivery of research data management training activities, and in the monitoring of the main developments in the fields of research communication, scientific publishing, and research assessment.

Laura Giovinazzi
Laura is a post-doc researcher and data steward at the University of Milan. In 2016, she obtained a master in Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex (UK), and, in 2022, a PhD in International Studies at the University of Naples L’Orientale, with a thesis entitled: “Evaluated through performance or performing evaluation? An historical investigation of the role of vice-chancellor committees in shaping the genesis of managerial governance in English and Italian universities”. Her research investigates the evolution of managerial governance at different levels of the university sector, and more broadly her research interests include new public management, critical marxist theory, neoliberal governance, evaluation models.

Margherita Criveller
Since October 2024, Margherita has been a data steward in the Performance, Quality Assurance, Evaluation and Open Science Policies Division at the University of Milan. She graduated in Economic History from the University of Venice in 2019, then completed a Master’s degree in Global Politics and Society at the University of Milan, the same university from which in 2025 she obtained a PhD in Economic Sociology and Labour Studies, with a thesis entitled: Ties of Power: A Network Analysis of Contractual and Kinship Relations between Mercenaries and Regional States in Renaissance Italy. Her research interests include the study of social networks and understanding how social capital can influence economic decisions – ultimately becoming an economic asset in its own right. She has a strong research focus on the formation and evolution of institutions, examining how their defining features are shaped by the social networks that sustain them. Military organisations provide a particularly compelling example of this dynamic, reflecting the profound influence of embedded social ties on the institutional development of modern states’ standing armies.