Associate professor at the University of Bologna since 2020, he carries out his research in the field of marine ecology. The research interests are:
- Ecology of macrobenthic communities on hard and soft bottoms
- Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on benthic assemblages
- Benthic community and costal habitat conservation and restoration
- Coral diseases
- Marine Citizen Science
- Benthic biotic indices
- Scientific diving and underwater methods
- Geographic information systems applied to coastal ecology and habitat mapping
President of the Italian Association of Scientific Divers (formally: Associazione Italiana Operatori Scientifici Subacquei, AIOSS), and vice-president of the non-profit Reef Checl Italia onlus association, a charity dealing with monitoring and conservation of marine species and habitats.
Education
Graduated in Environmental Sciences, cum laude, in 1996 at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Bologna, he obtained a PhD in Ecology in 2001 at the University of Parma.
Scientific production
OrcID: 0000-0002-6521-1330
Web of Science ResearcherID: R-3093-2016
Publons
Scopus Author ID: 6604059267
Loop profile: 816702
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