Maurizio seracini biography of william

Maurizio Seracini (born 1946) is a self-proclaimed diagnostician of Italian art.

A 1973 graduate in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), he founded, in 1977, the first company in Italy for diagnostic and non-destructive analyses on art and architecture, Editech srl, Diagnostic Center for Cultural Heritage in Florence.^[1] Adapting technologies from the medical and military fields and other technical measuring instruments he has made possible diagnostics of art and search for art without destroying the artwork itself.

In 2007 Seracini founded the Center for Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (now known as the Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI)) at the University of California, San Diego's Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) in 2007 and served as its director until 2013.

From 2014 to 2016, he was a visiting professor at the School of Engineeri