From 2001 to 2007, Prof. Contin has been the President of the Ravenna Campus, with responsibilities for fund raising, for the establishment of collaborations with local and national authorities and for the overall management of the Campus. from 2009 to 2021, Prof. Contin has been the Director of the Interdepartmental Centre for Research in Environmental Sciences with responsibilities for the overall management of the Centre’s research activities. Within CIRSA, Prof. Contin is the leader of the Environmental Management Research Group, dealing with Environmental Certification, Energy System Analysis and the Bioeconomy. At the international level, Prof. Contin has been working for about 20 years at the European Centre for Nuclear Research in Geneva on Particle Physics, and he participates in an experiment (AMS-02) on the measurement of cosmic rays installed in the International Space Station.