University of Parma

The University of Parma (Italian: Università degli Studi di Parma, Latin: Alma Universitas Studiorum Parmensis, abbreviation UNIPR) is a public research university in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, which takes 962, the year of an imperial decree, as its founding date and is among the oldest universities in the world.帕尔马大学（意大利文 Università degli Studi di Parma，拉丁文 Alma Universitas Studiorum Parmensis，缩写 UNIPR）是位于意大利艾米利亚-罗马涅大区帕尔马市的公立研究型大学，该校以 962 年的一份帝国敕令为创校纪年，是世界上最古老的大学之一。

It is organised into 10 departments and reports about 33,000 students and over 2,000 lecturers, researchers and technical-administrative staff, with 57 first-cycle and single-cycle degree courses and 51 second-cycle courses.学校下设 10 个系，报告在校生约 33,000 人，拥有 2,000 余名教师、研究人员与技术行政人员，开设 57 个本科及单一周期学位课程与 51 个硕士课程。

OpenAlex records 66,690 research works and 5,298,584 citations for the university, which is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval within the global table.OpenAlex 为该校收录 66,690 项研究成果与 5,298,584 次引用，该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间，这是全球榜单中的一个并列区间。

History

• The university's own account of its origins starts in 781, when Charlemagne met the monk Alcuin of York in Parma, an encounter credited with laying the foundations for the rebirth of the Palatine School, the first important recognition of the city's higher educational vocation.该校官方校史将源头追溯到 781 年查理曼与约克的修士阿尔昆在帕尔马相遇，这次会面被认为为帕尔马宫廷学校的复兴奠定了基础，也是这座城市高等教育功能最早的重要记载。
• A more specific foundation follows: an imperial decree dated 13 March 962 in which Emperor Otto I conferred on Uberto, Bishop of Parma, the power to ordain and elect legal officials empowered to practise throughout the Empire.更明确的奠基则出现在此后：962 年 3 月 13 日的帝国敕令中，神圣罗马皇帝奥托一世授予帕尔马主教乌贝托任命与选举法律官员之权，使其可在帝国全境执业。
• Learning flourished in the 11th and 12th centuries, with figures such as the theologian San Pier Damiani and the monk Donizone, who praised the school of Parma in his Vita comitissae Mathildis of 1115, and according to the historian Ernst Dümmler Parma was a celebrated seat of studies drawing students from beyond the Alps.11 至 12 世纪此地文教兴盛，神学家圣彼得·达米安与修士多尼佐内皆出自此间，多尼佐内在 1115 年的《玛蒂尔达女伯爵传》中赞颂帕尔马学校；史学家恩斯特·杜默勒亦称帕尔马自 11 世纪起即为「求学胜地」，吸引阿尔卑斯以北的学生前来。
• A studium existed in Parma during the 13th and 14th centuries but was closed in 1387 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, and the university was opened again in 1412 by Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, who granted degrees although no papal bull was issued.13 至 14 世纪帕尔马曾设有大学学堂（studium），但 1387 年被米兰公爵吉安·加莱亚佐·维斯孔蒂关闭；1412 年，费拉拉侯爵尼科洛三世·德斯特重新开办大学，虽未取得教皇诏书，却已授予学位。
• The university was closed once more in 1420 by Filippo Maria Visconti, and although several later attempts were made to revive it, the institution functioned as a paper university, granting degrees without teaching, until Duke Ranuccio I Farnese finally refounded it in 1601 with a papal bull.1420 年学校再被菲利波·玛丽亚·维斯孔蒂关闭；此后虽多次尝试复办，却长期只是一所「纸面大学」，只授学位而不授课，直至 1601 年帕尔马公爵拉努乔一世·法尔内塞凭教皇诏书正式重建学校。
• The refoundation of 1601 made the university a joint institution with the Society of Jesus, and a third of its staff were teachers from a local Jesuit school who worked in a separate building and under the Jesuit curriculum, with logic, natural history, mathematics and theology in Jesuit hands and law and medicine taught by lay teachers.1601 年的重建使学校与耶稣会共同办学，三分之一的教职人员来自当地耶稣会学校，在独立建筑中按耶稣会课程授课，逻辑学、自然史、数学与神学由耶稣会士讲授，法学与医学则由非宗教教师承担。
• Seventeenth-century scale was modest, with usually about 27 to 32 teachers and 300 to 400 students, and among the Jesuits who taught in Parma were Giovanni Battista Riccioli, the astronomer of the lunar crater named for him, and Daniello Bartoli.17 世纪的办学规模不大，通常有 27 至 32 名教师、300 至 400 名学生；在帕尔马任教的耶稣会士中包括天文学家乔瓦尼·巴蒂斯塔·里乔利（月球上有一座以他命名的环形山）与达涅洛·巴尔托利。
• The period from 1412 to 1947 constituted the phase of the Royal University of Parma, during which the institution served the duchy, the Napoleonic annexation extended its jurisdiction as far as Alessandria, and the fame of Parma in the early 19th century was such that students still came from overseas.1412 至 1947 年构成「帕尔马皇家大学」阶段，学校先后服务于公国、拿破仑兼并时期其管辖范围甚至延伸至亚历山德里亚，19 世纪初帕尔马声名之盛，海外学生仍慕名而来。
• Two pupils of that era became popes, Sinibaldo dei Fieschi as Innocent IV and Simone de Brion as Martin IV, and the poet Petrarch sent his son Giovanni to study in Parma, while the 16th-century Farnese founded what became one of the most prestigious university colleges ever seen in Italy.该时期有两位学生日后成为教皇，西尼巴尔多·德·菲耶斯基成为英诺森四世，西莫内·德·布里翁成为马耳他四世；诗人彼特拉克曾把儿子乔瓦尼送到帕尔马求学，16 世纪法尔内塞家族还在此创办了意大利历史上最负盛名的大学学院之一。
• The Jesuits were expelled in 1768 by Ferdinand I, Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, who also modernised the curriculum, and student protests then led Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, to close the university in 1831.1768 年帕尔马、皮亚琴察与瓜斯塔拉公爵费迪南多一世驱逐耶稣会士并对课程加以现代化改革；此后学生抗议引发帕尔马女公爵玛丽·路易丝于 1831 年关闭学校。
• It was Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois who reopened it in 1854, after which the university comprised faculties of theology, law, medicine, physics and mathematics, philosophy and literature, together with schools of obstetrics, pharmacy and veterinary medicine, and a reorganisation followed in 1859.1854 年由阿尔图瓦的路易丝·玛丽·泰蕾兹重新开放学校，此后大学设有神学、法学、医学、物理与数学、哲学与文学等学院，并附设妇产、药学与兽医学院，1859 年又进行了一次组织调整。
• After the Risorgimento the government of newly united Italy divided universities into two grades, and in 1862 the University of Parma was declared grade B, which reduced its financing and degraded the quality of education until it was equalised with grade A universities in 1887.意大利统一运动之后，新生国家将大学分为两级，1862 年帕尔马大学被定为 B 级，经费削减、教学质量下降，直到 1887 年才与 A 级大学重新平级。
• After Italian national consolidation in 1947 the institution operated under the name Università degli Studi di Parma, and it became a state university in 1971, the legal form that underpins its present public character.1947 年意大利归一之后，学校以「帕尔马研究大学」（Università degli Studi di Parma）的名义运行，并于 1971 年成为国立大学，这一法律形式奠定了它今日的公立性质。
• Structural renewal came with the reduction of the faculty system from twelve faculties to nine departments between 2012 and 2016, and the university also created the Parma Technopole, an industrial research and innovation district, together with the Food Project to systematise its work in the food sector.2012 至 2016 年间，学校把原有的十二个学院结构整并为九个系，同时建设了帕尔马科技园这一产学研园区，并推出「食品计划」以系统整合其食品领域的科研与教学。
• The university marked the 1,060th anniversary of its 962 charter with a jubilee year, and its academic calendar for 2025/2026 offered 50 first-cycle courses, of which 2 in English, 7 single-cycle courses, of which 1 in English, and 51 second-cycle courses, of which 15 in English.学校以 962 年特许状为起点纪念建校 1,060 周年，2025/2026 学年共提供 50 个本科课程（其中 2 个为英语授课）、7 个单一周期课程（其中 1 个为英语授课）与 51 个硕士课程（其中 15 个为英语授课）。
• Paolo Martelli took up the rectorship on 1 November 2023 under Ministerial Decree 1219/2023 for the academic biennium 2023/2024 to 2028/2029, succeeding Paolo Andrei, who had led the university from 1 November 2017 to 31 October 2023.保罗·马泰利依据 2023 年第 1219 号部长令于 2023 年 11 月 1 日就任校长，任期为 2023/24 至 2028/29 学年，其前任保罗·安德烈于 2017 年 11 月 1 日至 2023 年 10 月 31 日掌校。
• Agnese Parodi leads the University of Parma Orchestra, a string ensemble that performed Mozart's Clarinet Concerto K622 under Stefano Zinetti with Stefano Conzatti, historically first clarinet of the Arena di Verona Foundation, at the university's 2025 research awards ceremony.阿涅塞·帕罗迪执掌帕尔马大学交响乐团，这支弦乐团在 2025 年科研奖颁奖仪式上与斯特凡诺·齐内蒂合作演奏莫扎特单簧管协奏曲 K622，独奏者为曾任维罗纳竞技场基金会首席单簧管的斯特凡诺·孔扎蒂。
• Research at the university is concentrated on its declared areas of excellence, namely agri-food science, biotechnology, pharmaceutical innovation and experimental medicine, alongside the legal, economic, humanistic, engineering, architectural and veterinary fields.学校科研集中于其声明的优势领域，包括农业食品科学、生物技术、药物创新与实验医学，以及法学、经济学、人文学、工程学、建筑学与兽医学领域。

Academics

• Teaching and research are organised in 10 departments, namely chemistry, life sciences and environmental sustainability, economics and management, engineering and architecture, food and drug, humanities, social sciences and cultural industries, law, politics and international studies, mathematical, physical and computer sciences, medicine and surgery, and veterinary science.教学与研究按 10 个系组织，涵盖化学、生命科学与环境可持续性，经济与管理，工程与建筑，食品与药物，人文、社会科学与文化产业，法学、政治与国际研究，数学、物理与计算机科学，医学与外科学，以及兽医学。
• The full 2025/2026 prospectus records 50 first-cycle degree courses of which 2 are taught in English, 7 single-cycle degree courses of which 1 is in English, and 51 second-cycle degree courses of which 15 are in English, making 108 degree programmes in total.2025/2026 学年的完整专业手册记录了 50 个本科课程（其中 2 个为英语授课）、7 个单一周期课程（其中 1 个为英语授课）与 51 个硕士课程（其中 15 个为英语授课），合计 108 个学位课程。
• Food science is a distinctive strength, built on the university's position in the centre of the Italian Food Valley, and the Food Project was launched to systematise and consolidate existing expertise and teaching in that sector.食品科学是该校的优势领域，依托其位于意大利「食品谷」腹地的区位，学校推出「食品计划」，系统化并整合该领域既有的专长与教学资源。
• Neuroscience is another flagship field, built on the mirror neuron research conducted by Giacomo Rizzolatti and colleagues in the 1990s in the university's physiology laboratories, which produced findings with global influence.神经科学是该校另一张王牌，其基础正是 1990 年代贾科莫·里佐拉蒂与同事在人体生理学实验室开展的镜像神经元研究，相关成果产生了全球影响。
• The Department of Information Engineering has developed studies that led to the creation of autonomous vehicles without a driver, alongside research in mathematics, and the university also operates industrial research laboratories including an Industrial Automation Laboratory and an Internet of Things Laboratory.信息工程系开展了通向无人驾驶汽车的研究，同时从事数学领域的研究；学校还设有工业自动化实验室与物联网实验室等产业研究实验室。
• Veterinary science is supported by a dedicated Department of Veterinary Science, one of the few in Italy, and the university's food sector work places it at the interface between agriculture, food processing and public health regulation.兽医学由独立的兽医学系支撑，这是意大利为数不多的同类建制；学校的食品领域工作使其处于农业、食品加工与公共卫生监管的交汇点上。
• About 1,020 lecturers and researchers and over 2,000 lecturers, researchers and technical-administrative staff in total support the teaching of the roughly 33,000 students enrolled, with the university reporting a national figure of 30,842 students enrolled in 2024/25 including 1,753 with foreign school qualifications and 6,176 first-year students.约 1,020 名教师与研究人员、教师研究人员及技术行政人员合计逾 2,000 人，支撑着约 33,000 名在校生的教学；学校报告的全国口径为 2024/25 学年在校生 30,842 人，其中持国外学历文凭者 1,753 人，新生 6,176 人。
• The Faculty of Business and Economics is anchored by the Paolo Andrei professorship in business administration, accounting and performance measurement, and the university runs a Doctor of Business Administration for practising managers alongside its conventional doctoral schools.商业与经济学院以「保罗·安德烈」商业会计与绩效管理讲席为支撑，学校同时面向在职管理者开设工商管理博士项目，与常规博士项目并行。
• An application-based research structure runs through the Parma Technopole, home to the university's interdepartmental centres for industrial research and a gateway to the regional innovation ecosystem, and the campus also hosts the Food School, which trains professionals for the food sector.以应用为导向的研究由帕尔马科技园承载，这里设有校内跨系产业研究中心，也是通往区域创新生态的门户；园区内还设有食品学院，为食品行业培养专业人才。
• International reach is documented by 1,753 students holding foreign school qualifications out of 30,842 enrolled in 2024/25, and by the English-language offer of 18 degree programmes across the three cycles, including the single-cycle medicine and surgery degree.学校的国际化程度可由数据佐证：2024/25 学年 30,842 名在校生中有 1,753 人持国外学历文凭，三个培养周期共提供 18 个英语授课学位项目，其中包括单一周期的医学与外科专业。
• Applied research infrastructure includes the university botanical garden of 11,500 square metres, whose herbarium holds the collections of botanists including Giambattista Guatteri, Giorgio Jan and Giovanni Passerini, together with the 19th-century herbarium of Luigi Gardoni preserved in 274 packets.应用研究设施包括占地 11,500 平方米的大学植物园，其标本馆保存着詹巴蒂斯塔·瓜泰里、乔治奥·扬与乔瓦尼·帕塞里尼等植物学家的采集，另存有 19 世纪植物学家路易吉·加尔多尼的标本，共 274 包。
• Admission is competitive in the medical field, where the university received 75 places for European Union students in the 2025 IMAT round with a final cut-off of 57.0, and 45 places for non-EU applicants among an intake of 13,495 candidates.医学专业录取竞争激烈，2025 年 IMAT 考试中该校为欧盟学生提供 75 个名额，最终分数线为 57.0；非欧盟申请者名额为 45 个，而当年参加考试者达 13,495 人。
• Scholarships are administered at regional level through the Er.Go consortium, and the university maintains the Association of Graduates and Friends of the University, founded in 2016, together with the Alumni association to support students and research.奖学金由艾米利亚-罗马涅大区的 Er.Go 联盟在区域层面统筹，学校另设 2016 年成立的校友与友生协会以及校友会，以支持学生与科研。
• The city itself anchors the university's standing, since Parma has hosted the European Food Safety Authority since 2003, was named a UNESCO Creative City for Gastronomy in 2015, and served as Italian Capital of Culture in 2020 and 2021.城市本身也支撑着学校的地位：帕尔马自 2003 年起是欧洲食品安全局所在地，2015 年获联合国教科文组织「美食创意城市」称号，并于 2020 年与 2021 年两度担任意大利文化之都。

Campus

• The university occupies both urban and suburban sites, with its historical centre in the city at Via Università 12 in the 43121 postal district and a 77-hectare science and technology campus south of the city that houses the science faculties and first-class sports facilities.学校同时拥有城区与郊区校址，历史中心位于 43121 邮区「大学街 12 号」，城南则有一片占地 77 公顷的科技园区，容纳理科各学院与一流体育设施。
• The suburban campus forms a self-contained citadel for the sciences and is complemented by the older urban premises such as the historic central headquarters in Via Università, from which the university is administered.郊区园区为理科教学构建了一座自成一体的「小城」，与城区老校址互为补充，其中包括位于大学街的行政总部。
• One of the oldest institutional buildings is the Jesuit college of Parma, founded as part of the 1601 refoundation and long associated with the university's historical seat, reflecting the joint Jesuit administration that lasted until the expulsion of 1768.历史建筑中尤以帕尔马耶稣会学院为著，它是 1601 年重建的组成部分，长期与学校的历史校址相连，见证了直至 1768 年耶稣会被驱逐为止的共同管理时期。
• The university botanical garden on Viale Martiri della Libertà occupies 11,500 square metres in the old town and descends from the Orto dei Semplici medicinal garden founded in 1630 by Ranuccio I Farnese, with today's garden laid out in 1770 by the abbot Giambattista Guatteri.位于解放殉难者大道上的大学植物园在老城区占地 11,500 平方米，其前身是 1601 年拉努乔一世·法尔内塞创办于 1630 年的药用植物园，今日的园区由 1770 年的院长詹巴蒂斯塔·瓜泰里规划建成。
• The garden's glasshouses were designed in 1793 by the court architect Ennemond Petitot, its arboretum was laid out between the 18th and 19th centuries, and in 1950 the director Fausto Lona added a highland and a tropical greenhouse for photoperiod and thermoperiod studies.植物园的玻璃温室由宫廷建筑师埃内蒙·珀蒂托于 1793 年设计，树木园建于 18 至 19 世纪，1950 年园长福斯托·洛纳增建了高山温室与热带温室，用于研究光周期与热周期。
• Student residences follow the Italian university residence system, with collegi offering room and board, and the university's sports centre CUS Parma, a branch of the Italian University Sports Centre, occupies extensive facilities within the suburban campus.学生住宿遵循意大利大学的「学院宿舍」（collegi）体系，宿舍兼供食宿；校内的 CUS 帕尔马是意大利大学体育中心的分支机构，在郊区园区内占有大面积体育设施。
• The university is also present in the city of Piacenza, extending its teaching and research reach across the Emilia-Romagna plain in cooperation with local institutions.学校在皮亚琴察市亦设有教学点，通过与当地机构的合作把教学与研究的辐射范围扩展到艾米利亚-罗马涅大区平原。
• Parma itself is a medium-sized city of about 200,000 inhabitants where cycling is the ideal means of getting around, and the university participates in the city's agricultural and food economy that extends to the Po plain in the north and the Apennines to the south.帕尔马是一座约 20 万人口的中等城市，自行车是最理想的出行方式；学校也与当地发达的食物工业和农业经济深度互动，其腹地北接波河平原，南倚亚平宁山。

Reputation

• The university is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a tied interval within the global table.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 1001-1200 区间，这是全球榜单中的一个并列区间。
• It stood in the 801-1000 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列 801-1000 区间。
• It was ranked 739th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 list.该校在 US News 2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中位列第 739 位。
• It was placed in the 601-700 band of the 2026 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列 601-700 区间。
• In the 2025 Center for World University Rankings the university stood 401st out of almost 21,500 institutions worldwide, 160th in Europe and 14th in Italy, making it second among the universities of Emilia-Romagna after Bologna and putting it in the top 1.9 per cent worldwide.在 2025 年世界大学学术中心排名中，该校在全球近 21,500 所大学中列第 401 位，欧洲第 160 位，意大利第 14 位，为艾米利亚-罗马涅大区仅次于博洛尼亚的第二位，处于全球前 1.9% 之列。
• Research output indexed by OpenAlex records 66,690 works and 5,298,584 citations for the university, a volume consistent with its position as the largest research institution of its region and one of the largest in Italy.OpenAlex 收录该校 66,690 项研究成果与 5,298,584 次引用，这一产出规模与其作为本地区最大研究机构、意大利规模最大的科研机构之一的地位相符。
• The university's most cited body of work comes from cognitive neuroscience, where the mirror neuron system described by Giacomo Rizzolatti and his colleagues in 1996 has shaped research on imitation, empathy and social cognition worldwide.该校引用量最高的研究成果来自认知神经科学领域，贾科莫·里佐拉蒂与同事于 1996 年描述的镜像神经元系统，深刻影响了全球关于模仿、共情与社会认知的研究。
• Among the university's international recognitions is the AACSB accreditation of its business school and the Food Valley positioning that ties its food research to the world's largest agri-food cluster.学校的国际认可之一是商学院的 AACSB 认证，而「食品谷」的区位则将其食品研究直接连接到全球最大的农业食品产业集群。
• Research assessment was renewed in 2025, when the rector emphasised that the university was preparing for an ANVUR visit in May 2026 for the periodic accreditation of its sites and degree programmes, following a previous visit that had been highly satisfactory.该校在 2025 年推进科研评估工作，校长强调正为 2026 年 5 月的 ANVUR 访校做准备，以完成校址与学位项目的周期性认证，而上一次访校评价非常令人满意。

Student life

• The university has no separate formal motto, and its corporate mark consists of a circular seal bearing the Latin name Alma Universitas Studiorum Parmensis with the words Università di Parma, rendered in the Whitney typeface.该校没有单列的正式校训，其校徽为一个圆形印章，内书拉丁文 Alma Universitas Studiorum Parmensis 与「Università di Parma」字样，字体采用 Whitney。
• Student life follows the Italian collegi system in which halls of residence combine accommodation with meals and community services, and the university runs the Unipr4Life programme for the physical and mental well-being of students and staff.学生生活遵循意大利的「学院宿舍」（collegi）制度，宿舍兼供住宿、餐饮与社区服务；学校还运行「Unipr4Life」项目，关注学生与教职工的身心健康。
• Sport is organised through CUS Parma, a branch of the Italian University Sports Centre, which prepares students for competitive sport and gives them access to gyms, pitches and courts within the large suburban campus.体育事务由意大利大学体育中心的分支机构 CUS 帕尔马组织，负责为学生提供竞技体育训练，并依托面积可观的郊区园区向学生开放健身房、田径场与球场。
• Annual public events are part of the calendar, including the World Press Photo exhibition in Parma and the university calendar of cultural and scientific events staged on the campus, which also hosts the regional branch of the Italian University Sports Centre.年度公共活动构成学校日历的一部分，包括帕尔马世界新闻摄影展，以及在校园内举办的文化与科学活动日历；园区内还设有意大利大学体育中心的地方分支。
• The Association of Graduates and Friends of the University, founded in 2016, sustains contact between graduates and the institution through professional programmes, training and networking events.2016 年成立的校友与友生协会通过职业项目、培训与联谊活动，维持毕业生与学校之间的联系。
• Community engagement is organised through the stakeholder council and the university sport committee, which coordinate athletics management and bring together external organisations, business and public institutions in dialogue with the university.学校通过利益相关方委员会与大学体育委员会组织社会参与，前者协调体育场馆管理，后者把外部组织、企业与公共机构与大学纳入对话。
• In 2026 the university named the Consob commissioner Federico Cornelli Alumnus of the Year, an honour it created jointly with the alumni and friends association.2026 年，学校把年度校友奖授予意大利证券监管委员会专员费德里科·科尔内利，该奖项由学校与校友及友生协会共同设立。
• A named lecture cycle, the V-NanoDay conference on nanobiotechnologies co-organised by the university in 2026, and the UniverCity information point in Piazza Garibaldi reflect the university's engagement with public science in the city.系列讲座、与学校联合承办的第五届纳米生物技术 V-NanoDay 会议（2026 年），以及位于加里波第广场的 UniverCity 咨询点，都体现了学校与城市公众科学的互动。

Notable people

• Giacomo Rizzolatti graduated in medicine from the University of Padua, joined the University of Parma and became full professor of human physiology there in 1975, then directed the Department of Neuroscience and the Parma unit of the Italian National Research Council neuroscience institute.贾科莫·里佐拉蒂毕业于帕多瓦大学医学院，后进入帕尔马大学，并于 1975 年任人体生理学正教授，随后担任神经科学系主任以及意大利国家研究委员会神经科学研究所帕尔马分部的负责人。
• With Leonardo Fogassi and Vittorio Gallese, Rizzolatti discovered mirror neurons in the premotor cortex of macaque monkeys, work published in 1996 in the journal Brain, and he was awarded the 2014 Brain Prize of the Lundbeck Foundation together with Stanislas Dehaene and Trevor Robbins.里佐拉蒂与莱昂纳多·福加西、维托里奥·加莱塞共同发现了猕猴前运动皮层中的镜像神经元，相关成果于 1996 年发表于《Brain》杂志；他与斯坦尼斯拉斯·德阿纳、特雷弗·罗宾斯同获 2014 年伦贝克基金会「脑奖」。
• Rizzolatti received the 2007 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology from the University of Louisville, the 2000 Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine of the Accademia dei Lincei, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Science and Technology, and in 2021 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.里佐拉蒂曾获 2007 年路易斯维尔大学心理学「格劳迈耶奖」、2000 年林契科学院医学「费尔特里内利奖」以及阿斯图里亚斯亲王科学技术奖，并于 2021 年当选英国皇家学会外籍院士。
• Vittorio Gallese, a professor of psychobiology at the university, was a member of the team that coined the term mirror neurons in 1996 and developed embodied simulation theory, and he works on the neural basis of social cognition in the Department of Medicine and Surgery.维托里奥·加莱塞是该校心理生物学教授，1996 年与团队共同提出「镜像神经元」一词并发展了具身模拟理论，在医学与外科系研究社会认知的神经基础。
• Bernardino Ramazzini, a professor of medicine at Parma in the late 17th century, is regarded as the father of occupational medicine for his study of diseases of workers, notably his 1700 treatise on the diseases of artisans.贝纳尔迪诺·拉马齐尼是 17 世纪末帕尔马的医学教授，因研究劳动者的疾病、特别是 1700 年论述手工业者疾病的专著，被誉为「职业医学之父」。
• Cesare Beccaria, the economist, criminologist and philosopher whose 1764 treatise on crimes and punishments is a founding text of modern criminal law, studied at the University of Parma.切萨雷·贝卡里亚是经济学家、犯罪学家与哲学家，其 1764 年论犯罪与刑罚的著作是现代刑法的奠基性文献之一，曾在帕尔马大学求学。
• Macedonio Melloni, the physicist who showed that radiant heat has physical properties similar to those of light, taught at Parma and gave his name to the Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences known as the Macedonio Melloni department.马切多尼奥·梅洛尼是证明热辐射具有与光相似物理性质的物理学家，曾在帕尔马任教，以他命名的「马切多尼奥·梅洛尼」数学、物理与计算机科学系沿用其姓氏。
• Giovanni Battista Riccioli, the Jesuit astronomer who taught at Parma and is commemorated by a lunar crater, worked there before becoming professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna, where he produced the first detailed lunar map of the Moon's unilluminated side.乔瓦尼·巴蒂斯塔·里乔利是曾在帕尔马任教的耶稣会天文学家，月球上有一座以他命名的环形山；他后来任博洛尼亚大学天文学教授，首次绘制出月球背面的详图。
• Flavio Delbono, an economist and politician born in 1959, graduated from the university and became mayor of Bologna in 1993, holding the office until 1999.1959 年出生的经济学家与政治家弗拉维奥·德尔博诺毕业于该校，1993 年出任博伦尼亚市长，任职至 1999 年。
• Alberto Broggi, an engineer born in 1966, graduated in engineering from the university and is the founder of an international business group, while Marta Catellani, a chemist, and Giuseppe Mingione, a mathematician born in 1972, are also counted among its scholars.1966 年出生的工程师阿尔贝托·布罗吉在该校完成工程学学业，是一家国际商业集团的创始人；化学家马尔塔·卡泰拉尼与 1972 年出生的数学家朱塞佩·明吉奥内同属该校学者之列。