Full Professor at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, and coordinator of the BIOME Lab (BIOdiversity and MacroEcology). I am Botanist and ecologist with research activities focusing species diversity patterns within the frame of biogeography, biodiversity assessment and conservation biology. My research mission is to understand the patterns and processes of species coexistence in relation to the spatial and temporal scales and to improve the approaces adopted for biodiversity conservation. My management approach is to promote a community-based decision making for strategic development. I like to collaborate with a broad spectrum of espertises, in the frame of theoretical, empirical and applied research projects, within a friendly environment and exchange culture. I consider Science as a contribution to a better world, peaceful and healthy for the human beings and the other organisms living on the Earth.
