Prof. Marco Ferrari

Marco Ferrari, graduated at School of Surgery and Medicine, of University of Pisa in 1983, and had a degree in General Dentistry in 1987 at the University of Siena. 
In 1995 he took his PhD degree at the University of Amsterdam, defending a thesis on “Bonding to dental structures”. In the meantime times he started his career at the School of Dental Medicine at Tufts University of Boston and he was appointed progressively from Clinical Instructor to Assistant Clinical Professor, Associate Clinical Professor, to Research Full-Professor during the academic year 1999-2000, position that he still has. Between 1997 and 1999-2000 he was teaching Dental Materials at the School of Dental Medicine of Siena University as Adjunct Professor. From October 2000, he was appointed Associate Professor at School of Dental Medicine, of Siena University. In June 2001 Prof. Ferrari proposed and implemented the Ph.D. program in ‘Dental Materials and their clinical applications’ at the University of Siena. In June 2002, he was winner of national application of a Full-Professor position, and starting the academic year 2003 he was appointed Full-Professor at Siena University, into the School of Dental Medicine. In July 2002 Prof. Ferrari was elected Dean of School of Dental Medicine and renewed this year for an additional 3 years. Actually, is also the President and Coordinator of the Undergraduate course in Dentistry, in English language at the University of Siena and Chair of the Residency Master Program in Prosthodontics Sciences at the University of Siena. Between October 2003 and January 2006, he was appointed Vice-Rector of International Relations of the University of Siena. He also was the secretary of President of the National Conference of Schools of Dental Medicine from 2006 and in 2009 was elected President of the Italian Dental School Deans Association (2009-2016). In May 2005, he was also appointed Director of School of Ph D in ‘Biotecnologies’. From November 2012 he was the Director of the Dental and Medical Biotechnology Department of Siena University and coordinator of the Tuscan School of Dental Medicine of Florence and Siena University. He is appointed Professor of Prosthodontics and Restorative Dentistry, University of Leeds, UK, Visiting Professor at Rochester University, Eastman Center, USA, and Xi’an University, 4th Biomedical University, China. He is Past-President of Academy of Dental Materials and Past President of the European Federation of Conservative Dentistry and Past-President of the Continental European Division (CED) of International Association of Dental Research (IADR), and President of the Dental Material Group of IADR and President of the European Prosthodontics Association.He serves into the editorial board of some international dental journals with impact factor (such as Journal of Dental Research, Journal of Dentistry, J Endodontics, Journal of Adhesive Dentistry, American Journal of Dentistry, Dental He is the author of more than 400 international publications, of other 260 national publications and of 160 abstracts presented in international and national congress.