Very serious injuries after the professor of the front bye

Gianni Pavan, professor of bioacoustics at the University of Pavia who was seriously injured on Thursday afternoon in an accident in Casteggio, died yesterday. A fatal frontal impact between an Audi teacher’s car and a heavy vehicle took place on Via Emilia on the way to Broni. Once the papers were removed by firefighters, the professor was found unconscious. Revived, he was flown by helicopter to the San Gerardo hospital in Monza in the hope of saving him. Instead, yesterday the brain death of the professor, the son of Mario Pavan, an international epidemiologist and avid traveler, as well as the minister of the environment who has been missing for 20 years, was declared brain dead. Born in Pavia 62 years ago, Gianni Pavan graduated in Natural Sciences in Pavia. “He was a talented and enthusiastic researcher in the field of marine bioacoustics – recalled the rector of the University Francesco Svelto -. Among the leading experts in the acoustics of cetaceans, and the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioacoustics and Environmental Research participated in important international projects. “. Since 2006, the teacher had managed the national database of stranded cetaceans on behalf of the Ministry of the Environment and tried to decipher their language in a difficult environment in which, due to the passage of ships, they forgot the silence. And especially because of the noise pollution, according to Pavan the whales struggled to communicate and remain alone. “The early and sad death of Professor Gianni Pavan saddens me a lot – added the head – he was a gentle and kind person, very attached to our university. It is a great loss for all of us. We are very close to his wife and three children”. Manuela Marziani