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Marco Grigatti

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Academic discipline: AGR/13 Agricultural Chemistry

Curriculum vitae

Education

Graduated in Agricultural Sciences, he obtained his PhD in Agricultural Chemistry at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan in 2004.

Academic career

After some years of research activity as a research fellow at the University of Bologna, he became in 2014 a fixed-term researcher (type A) in the disciplinary sector AGR/13 (Agricultural Chemistry) at the Department of Agri-food Sciences and Technologies of the University of Bologna.

In October 2018 he obtained the National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor (SC 07/E1 Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural Genetics and Pedology). Since July 9, 2021 he is Researcher on fixed-term type B at the University of Bologna.

Teaching activities

From 2014 to 2019 he carried out teaching support activities at the Department of Agri-food Sciences and Technologies, he was co-rapporteur of several dissertations conducting also support activities for PhD students.

Scientific activity

The scientific activity is basically focused on the rational management and recovery of organic matter recycling. In this area he has developed numerous national and international collaborations being responsible for projects aimed at increasing carbon in soils and nutrient recovery following the use of compost and anaerobic digestate.

He has been involved in several national and international research programs, also conducting research activities at Wageningen and Copenhagen Universities.

Referee of international journals in the field of Agricultural Chemistry.

Institutional activities and academic positions

Since September 2021 he is in charge of the course: "Plant nutrient management and recycling in agriculture", at the Department of Food Science and Technology of the University of Bologna (6 CFU).

Awards and acknowledgements

Awarded the FFARB Prize 2017 as Researcher (TD - t. pieno (art. 24 c.3-a L. 240/10), SSD AGR/13; SC 07/E1.

Other activities

Since 2015 he is member of the Italian Society of Agricultural Chemistry.

He is member of the Tasking Group SOIL ORGANIC MATTER of the European Compost Network (ECN).

He works in CEN TC 223 (WG-4) as an expert for the revision of the EN 16087-1 OUR method.

He has carried out numerous consulting activities in the field of rational management of organic products intended for distribution in agricultural soils working with the main Italian players in the industry and with the help of the most modern techniques of remote sensing in precision agriculture.

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