Profile:
Birth date and place: 1st of February 1983, Reggio Emilia, Italy
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4181-3895
Education:
2009-2012 PhD in Animal Genomics, University of Bologna, Italy
2006-2008 MSc in Molecular Biology, University of Parma, Italy
2002-2006 BSc in Biology, University of Parma, Italy
Working experience:
09/2022 - Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna
2018-31/09/2022 Associate Professor, DTU Aqua, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
2015-2018 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, USA
2012-2015 Post-doctoral fellow, University of Bologna, Italy and University of Messina, Italy
2009-2010 Guest Researcher, Department of Biosystems, Gene technology division, KU Leuven, Belgium
Teaching:
2019-2022. Responsible of 2 courses (5 ECT each) in molecular techniques and Genomic methods in fish offered at bachelor and Master level respectively (DTU, 25334 and 25108)”. 2018-ongoing. Guest lecturer of Next-Generation-Sequencing Analysis (DTU 36626) in the MS of Bioinformatics Systems Biology.
Project involvement and funding acquisition (since 2018):
2018-2021. Improve technology and scale-up production of offspring for European eel aquaculture - ITS-EEL (IFD). 2018, Neergaards og hustrus Fond: Novel DNA-based marker technique to enhance production in aquaculture. 2020-2021; Nordic co-operation fond: Transcriptomic Tool to determine European Eel marine residency for use in Monitoring and Management (2TEM). 2020-2021, Carlsberg Foundation Research Infrastructure: Real Time PCR instrument for measurements of genetic activity and genotype profiling in fish and shellfish species.
Additional achievements, awards and responsibilities:
2016-ongoing. ISAG Standing committee chair of the Genetics & Genomics of Aquaculture Species session. 2018-ongoing. Associate editor for BMC Genomics. 2019-ongoing. Section editor for Italian Journal of animal Science. 2018-2019 guest editor for Frontiers in Genetics. 2019-ongoing evaluator member and vice chair for the French National Research Agency.
Scores (Scopus 07/2022). N. publications:81; H-index 18
