Roberto Iengo, director of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory at SISSA and long-time consultant in the ICTP High Energy Physics group and course director of ICTP activities in string theory since the late 1980s, has been appointed to the Nucleus Committee for the Assessment of the University of Trieste. He will be one of five members of an expert committee who will review the functioning of the University of Trieste and draft a report to propose improvements in fields such as scientific research, curricula, and administrative organization and management.