Ines Testoni

Ines Testoni is a professor of social psychology and palliative psychology, and she directs the Master’s program in Death and End of Life Studies at the University of Padua. She is interested in issues of grief, death, and death education, and is the author of 20 books and 250 articles.

She has been a member of the bilateral committee of the Italian Ministry of Health for the inclusion of palliative care in educational programs. She leads the European project “Education on Death for Palliative Psychology.”

Ines Testoni is recognized as one of the 100 most important scholars in Italy for her research in the field of death and the dying process.

Ines is the Head and Director of various European projects, a member of numerous national and international associations studying the connections between psychology, religion, thanatology, palliative care, and suicide.

She has authored over fifty articles on national and international levels, as well as numerous presentations at conferences.