Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Perugia and President of the SMAArt (Scientific Methodologies Applied to Archaeology and Art) Center of Excellence until 2015, Bruno Brunetti is member of the Interuniversity Consortium for Materials Science and Technology (INSTM) and also affiliated with the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Technologies (SCITEC) of CNR.
In 2001 he co-founded with Antonio Sgamellotti the mobile laboratory MOLAB, specializing in non-invasive in-situ investigations of artworks. From 2001 to 2015 he was the coordinator of three consecutive European projects in the field of research infrastructures in heritage sciences:
- Coordinator of the European network LabS-TECH, “Science and Technology Laboratory for the Conservation of European Cultural Heritage”
- Coordinator of the European integrated infrastructure initiative EU-ARTECH, “Access, Research and Technology for the Conservation of European Cultural Heritage”
- Coordinator of the European integrated project CHARISMA, “Advanced Research Infrastructures on Cultural Heritage: Synergy for a multidisciplinary approach to conservation”
He is the author of more than 180 publications in the international scientific literature.