Updated: 14 December 2016
March 1988
Degree (laurea) in Biology, University of Padova. Thesis on
“Population analysis in a microcosm”, reporting his experimental
work on the use of laboratory ecosystems for the parametrisation
and validation of mathematical population dynamics models. (Tutor:
Prof. A. Parise).
March 1988 - March 1989
At the Department of Biology of the University of Padova, for the
post-graduate training period required for the enrolment in the
Italian National College of Biologists, working on the ecology and
taxonomy of Copepoda, Cladocera, Rotatoria and Trichoptera.
January 1989 - December 1989.
Researches on aquaculture and restocking of Italian endemic
freshwater fish species, granted by a fellowship from the Ente di
Sviluppo Agricolo del Veneto (Agricultural Development Board of the
Region of Veneto).
February 1990 - October 1992
Ph.D. student at the Department of Biology of the University of
Bologna. Mainly involved in laboratory experiments which supplied
the data for his Ph.D. thesis on the population dynamics of Tubifex
tubifex (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae); collaboration with his tutor,
Prof. G. Bonomi, in other research projects both on aquatic
oligochaetes population dynamics and on zoobenthic community
structure of Italian lakes.
July 1993
Ph.D. in Ecology.
November 1992 - October 1995
Technician on a contract at the laboratory of ecology of the
Faculty of Environmental Sciences in Ravenna.
Fellowship of the Flaminia Foundation, teaching at the Faculty of
Environmental Sciences in Ravenna.
November 1995 –
Assistant professor of Ecology at the Faculty of Environmental
Sciences in Ravenna.
Recent research projects:
- PRIN 2008: Function of meio- and macrobenthos in the
mineralization of organic nitrogen in NW Adriatic Sea;
- 2009-11 C.S.I.RA Coastal Salt Intrusion (Ravenna Area), founded
by ENI;
-
POR-FESR 20011-2013 Emilia-Romagna Region:
construction of technology
centers for industrial
research;
- 2016-2018 VALSOVIT - Sustainable exploitation of wine wastes ,funded by POR FESR Emilia-Romagna.
