The lecture by Prof Plinio Innocenzi “Leonardo’s Dream of Flight” will be delivered in Italian with a translation in Chinese on Thursday, 21 September, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Auditorium of the Italian Embassy in Beijing. Prof Innocenzi is full professor of Science of Materials and director of the Laboratory of Science of Materials and Nanotechnologies (LMNT) and was appointed Advisor for Science and Technology of the Italian Embassy in August 2010. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Osaka in Japan and at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology and Honorary Professor at the Luoyang Normal University. He graduated in Physics from the University of Padua and is member of the “Royal Society of Chemistry”.