Professor D’Maris Coffman inducted as a Foreign Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

L-R: President, Prof. Roberto Antontelli, Prof. D'Maris Coffman, Vice President, Giorgio Parisi

The Accademia dei Lincei is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rome, Italy. The Accademia dei Lincei was founded in Rome on 17 August 1603 by Prince Federico Cesi and three other scholars: Johannes Eck, Francesco Stelluti and Count Anastasio De Filiis. Their dedication to the study of natural sciences and their approach to science based on the new experimental methods made the Accademia dei Lincei the first scientific academy in the world. One of the first illustrious members was Galileo Galilei, whose most important scientific works were published by the Academy during the first part of the 17th century. 

The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei is today the Italian national academy. It is a non-governmental, independent body within the sphere of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, regulated by a Statute and By-laws established by its members. Its autonomy is recognized by law. 

Professor Coffman is a Professor in Economics and Finance of the Built Environment at BSSC and the Vice-Dean Innovation and Enterprise for The Bartlett. She is Editor-in-Chief and Coordinating Editor of Elsevier's Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. She was recently elected distinguished visiting Professor at the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University. She is also a visiting Professor at the University of Milan (Statale), a guest Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, and a visiting Professor of Renmin University of China. She has been a foreign member of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere since 2015 and in September 2023 was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.  

Professor Coffman said: “I have admired the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei since I was first invited in 2012 to participate in the inaugural IinteR-La+B (International Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory) workshop sponsored by the Balzan Foundation and held at the Lincei. To be inducted as a Foreign Fellow of the Accademia is one of the greatest honours of my academic career, and a source of great pride. I look forward to many fruitful collaborations with friends and colleagues at the Lincei, and am especially grateful to Professor Alberto Quadrio Curzio and Professor Roberto Scazzieri for their mentorship and guidance, and for our many collaborations and shared initiatives over past decade.”