MAIN PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Advanced skills in:
- zoological management of minor fauna (fish, amphibians and reptiles) and birds.
- knowledge and management of protected and dangerous herpetological species for public safety.
- design and realization of aquariums, paludariums and terrariums.
- technology applied to aquaculture.
- underwater practice in scientific marine biology.
- Scientific Museology
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Scientific High School Diploma
Degree in Biological Sciences
State exam and registration in the Register of Biologists.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
• Sea fishing campaigns promoted by the Department of Hydrobiology and Fish Farming of Fano and by the C.N.R. of Ancona.
• Systematic underwater censuses of invertebrates and fish.
• Monitoring of mucilage in the upper and middle Adriatic and related damage to fishing.
• Teacher Instructor delegated F.I.A.S. of marine biology courses for divers.
• Designer of systems for Mediterranean marine and tropical marine circuits of various aquariums to the public.
• Designer of structures dedicated to local and tropical amphibians and reptiles for various bio-parks including the Aquae Mundi scientific didactic center.
• Expert in the systematic of marine invertebrates, director of the Zoological Museum "Life in the waters".
• Design and implementation of various naturalistic-themed museum exhibitions throughout Italy.
• President of the Volunteer Society Aquae Mundi, a company that aims to disseminate, enhance and preserve mainly the Italian herpetofauna.
• Head of the Regional Project RI.V.I.V.R.O '(Rebalancing of Vegetation, Invertebrates and Vertebrates of Western Romagna) for what concerns fauna.
• For several years he has been teaching university lessons for Vertebrate Zoology courses, Degree Course in Biology, Faculty of Science MMFFNNN, AMS University of Bologna as expert in herpetology.
• He is carrying out as a biologist an assignment of primary importance in the LIFE14 NAT IT 000290 PROJECT "COORDINATED ACTIONS TO PRESERVE RESIDUAL AND ISOLATED POPULATIONS OF FOREST AND FRESHWATER INSECTS IN EMILIA-ROMAGNA".
single author of two scientific-didactic volumes: "The Sea. The Life" Ed. Olimpia, Florence, April 1998. and "The invisible mud people: the Italian Amphibians" Ed. Calderini Edagricole, Bologna February 2001.
