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Massimo Tagliavini

Professore ordinario di altro ateneo

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Settore scientifico disciplinare: AGR/03 ARBORICOLTURA GENERALE E COLTIVAZIONI ARBOREE

Curriculum vitae

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Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Piazza Università 5

39100 Bolzano, Italy

massimo.tagliavini@unibz.it [mailto:massimo.tagliavini@unibz.it]

Tel +39 0471 017120

Professional experience

Full professor  at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (2007-now). He has teaching responsibilities on the following courses at bachelor and master level: Agricultural ecology; Principles of tree management; Crop ecosystems.

Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (October 2008-September 2014)

Previous University positions: Associate professor: 1998-2007. University of Bologna, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, “Dipartimento di Colture Arboree”

Research areas

1. Ecophysiology of the internal-tree cycling of nitrogen

2. Nutrient needs, uptake and partitioning in fruit trees

3. Iron nutrition and lime-induced iron chlorosis

4. Physiology of the root system and rhizosphere studies

5. Carbon fluxes at orchard ecosystem scale and C footprint of fruit products

6. Water needs and water stress indexes

Main recent research projects with scientific responsibility

Iron Nutrition in fruit tree ecosystems and its interaction with nitrogen, soil management and oxidative stress Progetto Cofin 2002. Minister of University, PI of the Research Unit of Bologna (47,000 euro).

Carbon cycle in managed tree ecosystems. Project Cofin 2004. Minister of University, National coordinator the Project (60,000 euro).

Nutrient Cycle in Citrus, funded by the Italian Minister of Agriculture, project MIPAF Ricerche Avanzate in Agrumicoltura e loro applicazioni” 2007-2010. (89,000 euro).

ISAFRUIT Project, Pi of WP51 Development of a model for the prediction of nutrient demand rates, funded by the European Union 6th frame program, 2006-2010. (30,000 euro).

Potential of CO2 fixation by apple orchards in South Tyrol. Autonomous Province of Bolzano-Bozen 2008-2011. (120,000 euro).

Assessing the role of environmental and tree-internal factors to the soil respiration of the apple orchard”, founded by the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen. 2008-2010. (28,000 euro).

Carbon cycle in managed tree ecosystems. Progetto Prin 2008. Minister of University, National coordinator the Project. 2010-2012 (56,000 euro).

Quantification of net carbon ecosystem exchange in an apple orchard in South Tyrol, founded by the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen. 2011-2013. (34,000 euro).

Carbon and energy budgets along the apple production and storage chain. Founded by the Apple growers’ association “Assomela” 2012-2014 (32,900 euro)

Valorization of agriculture for the water supply in context with climate change. Founded by the Province of Bolzano-Bozen 2014-2014 (59,400 euro).

Leaf uptake and partitioning of nitrogen deriving from atmospheric deposition in agricultural and forest trees. Funded by the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen. 2014-2016 (47,000 euro).

Editorial activity

Editor of “Italus Hortus”, the official Journal of the Italian Society for Horticultural Sciences (2005-2013).

Member of the Editorial Board of “European Journal of Agronomy” (since 1997) and “Tree Physiology” (since 2004).

Guest Editor of the Journal of Plant Nutrition (together with R. Pinton, Z. Varanini and G. Zocchi) special issue Vol.26 (n.10 & 11), 2003.

Editor of the following volumes of the Series Acta Horticulturae (international Society for Horticultural Sciences):

324 ISBN n. 90 6605 3658

383 ISBN n. 90 6605 7572

594 ISBN n. 90 6605 8269

596 ISBN n. 90 6605 8668

Referee for many International Scientific Journals, including

American Journal of Horticultural Sciences

Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture

Canadian Journal of Plant Sciences

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

European Journal of Horticultural Sciences

Journal of Horticultural Sciences and Biotechnology

Journal of Plant Physiology

Physiologia Plantarum

Plant and Soil

Scientia Horticulturae

Soil Science

Trees, Structure and Functions

New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Sciences

Activities for the international scientific community

Chairman of the working group on “Mineral Nutrition of Fruit Crops” of the International Society for Horticultural Sciences (2000-2005; 2012-now)

Activity as evaluator for other Universities of scientific activities for progresses in career

2001 for the Department of Pomology, University of California (Davis, USA): evaluation of scientific activity of a candidate for advancement of career in the role of Full Professor.

2003 for the Institute For Applied Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel): evaluation of scientific activity of a candidate for a promotion to Associate Professor.

2004 for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Dept. Horticulture) Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA): evaluation of scientific activity of a candidate for a promotion to Associate Professor

2010 for the Department of Pomology, University of California (Davis, USA): evaluation of scientific activity of a candidate for advancement of career in the role of Full Professor.

2008-2011- Member of a commission for Habilitation. Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, TUM Munich (Germany).

2009-now - Member of the Scientific Committee of Institute for Alpine Environment of European Academy (EURAC), Bozen.

Organization of Scientific events

Scientific Secretary of the “International Symposium on Soil Sickness and Replant Disease in Fruit Trees, ISHS ” (Bologna, Italy) 1990.

Scientific Secretary of the “Second International Symposium on Diagnosis of Nutritional Status of Deciduous Fruit Orchards, ISHS” S. Michele A.A. (TN, Italy) 1993.

Scientific Secretary of the “VIII ISHS International Pear Symposium” (Ferrara-Bologna, Italy) 2000.

Convener of the ’”International Symposium on Foliar Nutrition of Deciduous Fruit Plants” (ISHS), (Meran, Italy) 2001

Co-convener of the ”IX International Symposium on Iron Nutrition and Interactions in Plants“ (Udine, Italy) 2002.

Convener of the National conference on “Mineral Nutrition of fruit trees” (Bologna, Italy) 2005.

Organizer of the Workshop on “Mineral Nutrition of crops for mountain areas” (Bolzano, Italy) 2012.

Member of the scientific committee of many international and national conferences, including, more recently:

7th International Symposium on Mineral Nutrition of fruit Crops. Thailand, 2012

The second Horticulture Symposium in Europe, Angers (France), 2012

The 18th Nitrogen Workshop: The Nitrogen challenge, Lisbon, (Portugal), 2014

Invited lectures and seminars

1994: Iron chlorosis in fruit trees: developing alternative strategies to iron chelates, Pflanzenernahrungs Colloquia, Institute of Plant Nutrition, Justus Liebig University, Giessen (Germany).

1997: Alternatives to iron chelates for overcoming fruit tree iron chlorosis in Mediterranean Countries. 9th International Symposium on Iron Nutrition and Interactions in Plants, Hohenheim (Germany).

1998: Partitioning of Mineral Nutrients to Fruits of Deciduous Trees. ISHS Symposium on Mineral Nutrition and Fruit Quality. Brussels (Belgium)

2000: Main nutritional issues of deciduous fruit crops in orchards of northern Italy. Fourth International ISHS Symposium on Mineral Nutrition of Deciduous Fruit Crops. Penticton (Canada).

2002: Understanding nitrogen cycling to optimize fertilization in fruit tree ecosystems, IX Iberic Symposium on Plant Mineral Nutrition, Zaragoza (Spain)

2004: Fluxes of nutrients in tree ecosystems, The second national Symposium on mineral Nutrition of Plants, Warsaw Agricultural University, Warsaw (Poland).

2005: Nutrient cycling in orchard ecosystems, Fifth International ISHS Symposium on Mineral Nutrition of Deciduous Fruit Crops. Talca (Chile).

2006: Nutrient fluxes in kiwifruit orchards, 6th ISHS International Kiwifruit Symposium, Rotorua (New Zealand).

2007: Use efficiency of within-orchard sources of nutrients, Conference “RATIONAL METHODS FOR THE SELECTION AND USE OF AGROCHEMICAL MEASURES: RISK MODELING, MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT”, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, USAMV, Cluj-Napoca, (Romania).

2008: I fabbisogni nutrizionali del pero per la definizione del piano di fertilizzazione, Convegno Nazionale sulla coltura del Pero. Ferrara (Italy).

2008: Esigenze nutrizionali e tecniche sostenibili di concimazione della fragola, Convegno Nazionale sulla coltura della fragola. Marsala (Italy).

2008: Carbon fluxes in orchard ecosystems. Invited Seminar at University of the State Santa Catarina, Lages (Brasil).

2008 Use of Stable isotopes in mineral nutrition research: principles and applications to fruit trees. Invited seminar for the PhD program in Soil Science. Federal University de Santa Maria (Brasil).

2009: Carbon cycle in the apple orchard, Invited Seminar, Department of Horticulture, Pennsylvania State University (USA).

2009: Nutrient cycling in fruit tree systems. Invited Seminar for the PhD program in Soil Science, Federal University de Santa Maria (Brasil).

2010: Carbon Footprint and Energy Use in Apple Orchards: Introduction and Basic Concepts, Interpoma Conference, Bolzano (Italy)

2011: Sfide della frutticoltura del futuro, tra tradizione e innovazione, Innovation Day, Commerce Chamber, Bolzano (Italy).

2012: Nutrient uptake requirements and partitioning in fruit trees, 7th International ISHS Symposium on Mineral Nutrition of fruit Crops, Chanterboury (Thailand).

2012 Nutrient fluxes in orchard ecosystems. 3rd SLOVENIAN FRUIT GROWING CONGRESS 21–23. 11. 2012 Krško (Slovenia).

2014: Recenti conoscenze sulla nutrizione minerale per concimare il frutteto in modo sostenibile, Interpoma Conference, Bolzano (Italy) 21.11.2014

2014: La sostenibilità ecologica del frutteto, Accademia dei Georgofili: Giornata di Studio su «sistemi arborei da frutto di domani: intensivi, volti alla qualità del prodotto e resilienti» Firenze 18 dicembre 2014

Professional societies

Italian Society for Horticultural Sciences, since 1992; currently member of the steering committee.

International Society for Horticultural Sciences, since 1996.

Languages

Italian: native speaker

English: C1 level (CAE obtained in 2013)

German: B2 (Goethe Certificate obtained in 2012)