TEACHING ACTIVITIES
October 2022 - present: Basics and Teaching Tools of Animal Biology (Teaching and Communicationof Natural Sciences)
February 2019 - present: Elements of General Biology (Primary Teacher Education).
October 2022- present: Transversal Lab of Nature Science (Primary Teacher Education).
October 2015 - October 2022: Applied Statistics (Natural Sciences - Module 2 of Mathematics, Statistics and Informatics).
March 2015 - May 2022: Tutor for Systematic Zoology (Natural Sciences).
September 2012 - July 2022: Teacher in Natural Sciences at the Salesian Institute "Beata Vergine di San Luca".
May 2019 - October 2022: Tutor for the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Sciences (Primary Teacher Education).
May 2019 - October 2022: Tutor for the Disciplinary Laboratory of Biology (Primary Teacher Education).
October 2020 - September 2021: Mathematics (Natural Sciences - Module 1 of Mathematics, Statistics and Informatics).
May 2018 – November 2018: Tutor for Elements of Ecology (Primary Teacher Education).
October 2018 – January 2019: Teaching Biological Sciences (Natural Sciences).
March 2017 – June 2018: Tutor for Molecular Phylogenetics (Bioinformatics).
October 2016 – January 2019: Evolutionary Zoology (Biological Sciences).
November 2016 - January 2019: Tutor for Zoology (Biological Sciences)
April 2014 - May 2015: Tutor for Molecular Phylogenetics (Bioinformatics).
January 2013 - June 2013: Tutor for Laboratory of Molecular Phylogenetics (Biological Sciences).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
October 2022 - present: Senior assistant professor (fixed-term) at the Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences
May 2012 - July 2012: Visiting Fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology.
November 2011 - October 2012: Post-Doc Fellow at the University of Bologna, Department of Experimental Evolutionary Biology.
August 2011: oceanographic cruise DECORS on o/v Urania.
March 2010 - April 2010: oceanographic cruise ARCADIA on o/v Urania.
October 2009 - January 2010: Visiting Scholar at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology.
December 2008: oceanographic cruise ARCO on o/v Urania.
January 2008 - December 2010: PhD Student in Biodiversity and Evolution at the University of Bologna, Department of Experimental Evolutionary Biology.
PROFESSIONAL COURSES
July 2018 – July 2028: National Scientific Qualification 05/B1 - Zoology and Anthropology - Associate Professor
July 2015: Teaching Qualification for High School Science Teachers (A050 - Scienze Naturali, Chimiche e Biologiche).
November 2013: Certificate of Advanced English (CAE).
June 2009 - July 2009: BiostAT 2009 - International Summer School - Statistical Inference in Biology and Human Sciences.
November 2004: Bioinformatics Course, Theory and Practice.
SKILLS
Wetlab: DNA extraction, PCR, Sanger sequencing, cloning, spectrophotometry, gel electrophoresis, dot blot, colony blot, 2D electrophoresis.
Programming languages: VBA, Python, bash, R, XML.
Software: PAUP*, MrBayes, BEAST, MEGA, MAFFT, r8s, HHsuite, HMMER, RAxML, Microsoft Excel®, T-Coffee, PAML, IQ-TREE, Trinity, R.
EDUCATION
May 2011: PhD in Biodiversity and Evolution.
October 2007: MD in Biodiversityand Evolution, cum laude.
July 2005: BS in Biological Sciences, cum laude.
July 2002: High School Diploma (Classical Studies), with score 100/100.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
January 2018: research award on the study of the characterization of Doubly Uniparental Inheritance mitochondrial systems at the Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences.
September 2015: research award on the topic “Detection and characterization of species with doubly uniparental inheritance” at the Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences.
October 2014: research award on the topic "Molecular phylogeny of bivalve mollusks" at the Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences.
October 2009 - January 2010: "Marco Polo" Travel Grant (Tokyo, Giappone).
June 2008: Rotary Award "Guido Paolucci" - Best Academic Curriculum 2006/2007 (Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences).
PROFESSIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS
European Science Education Research Association (ESERA).
European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB).
Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology (ISEB-SIBE).
ParliamoneOra.
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE).
