CURRICULUM VITAE PIER MARIO BIAVA

Pier Mario Biava graduated in Medicine at the University of Pavia in 1969, specialised in Occupational Medicine at the University of Padova in 1972 and in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at the University of Trieste in 1977. He worked as Vice Head at the Institute of Occupational Medicine of University of Trieste, where he taught “Industrial Toxicology”, “Industrial Technology” and “ Epidemiology of Occupational Diseases”. He has been studying environmental carcinogens since 1974. He has performed many epidemiological researches particularly about the relationship between asbestos ad cancer. He has been studying the relationships between cell differentiation and cancer since 1982. He is head of Occupational Medicine at the Hospital of Sesto S.G. (Milano) since 1984. He is Professor at the Post-Graduate School of Occupational Medicine of University of Trieste. He is author of many scientific publications and of some books. He is a member of Editorial Advisory Boards of “Journal of Tumor Marker Oncology”, “International Journal of Modern Cancer Therapy” and “Epidemiologia e Prevenzione”. He is Director of the series “Il Laboratorio Ecologico” that has Complexity as main subject. He is President of “European Institute of Complexity” which promotes researches on complexity and organises some conferences, seminars, courses etc.. on different fields of complexity.