Curriculum vitae
He who loves laugh at himself never ceases to amuse
[British proverb]
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[An extended, Italian version of the CV is available here]
Education
| 1999 | » | Ph.D. in Ecology, Università degli Studi di Parma. Thesis: Mesoscale models for metapopulation dynamics. Advisor: Marino Gatto. In a nutshell, the proposed models have been published in Nature. |
| 1996 | » | M.Sc. (Laurea) in Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. Thesis: A model for fire regimes in Mediterranean forest. Advisor: Sergio Rinaldi. The dissertation (published here) has been awarded the Italgas prize as the best master thesis in Engineering about Energy and Environment. |
Employment
| 2006-to date | » | Associate Professor, DEI, Politecnico di Milano. |
| 2002 - 2006 | » | Ricercatore (Assistant Professor), DEI, Politecnico di Milano. |
| 2001 - 2002 | » | Associate Researcher (assegnista di ricerca) and Lecturer, Politecnico di Milano. |
| 2000 | » | Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Simon Levin 's Lab), Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA. |
Visiting
| March 2007 | » | Visiting Scholar of the Movement Ecology Group (see this Special Feature in PNAS) Institute for Advanced Studies (Principal Investigator Ran Nathan), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IL. |
| 2009, 2002, 2001, 1999 | » | Visiting Scholar at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University (see above). |
| Jul 1997 | » | As graduate student at the Adaptive Dynamics Network group (Leader: J. A. J. Metz) of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria. |
| Jun 1993 | » | As undergraduate student at the Dynamic Systems group (Leader: A. Kriajimskii) of the IIASA (see above). |
Services
| 1999-to date | » | Acting as reviewer for the following journals: The American Naturalist, Ecology, The Journal of Ecology, Theoretical Population Biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Ecological Modelling, Rendiconti Lincei (Scienze Fisiche e Naturali), Mathematical Biosciences, Ecography, Annales Zoologici Fennici, BMC Ecology, BMC Infectious Diseases, Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, Environmental Modelling & Software, Mathematical Medicine and Biology. |
| Sep 2003 | » | Co-organizer of the XIII National Congress of the Italian Society of Ecology (S.It.E.). |