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MAIN RESPONSABILITIES
Head of the MEGIC microbial Culture Collecton at CNR-IRSA Verbania, coordinator of aquatic fungi research at CNR-IRSA Verbania, coordinator of the bat research group at CNR-IRSA Verbania
2024- current Italian PI Biodiversa+ project MoSTFun Monitoring Strategies and Tools to address knowledge gaps on aquatic Fungal biodiversity
2023 – current Italian PI and deputy-coordinator of Biodiversa+ project FUNACTION Aquatic FUNgal biodiversity: developing knowledge and strAtegies to inform ConservaTION priorities and measures
2022/11/01 – current Steering Committee and UO08 PI of the PNRR Project SUS-MIRRI.IT - Strengthening the MIRRI Italian Research Infrastructure for Sustainable Bioscience and Bioeconomy
2023/04/26 – current DOI responsible for CNR-IRSA
2022/07/05 – current WG1 co-leader COST Action CA20125 ParAqua - Applications for Zoosporic Parasites in Aquatic Systems
01/01/2022-15/06/2025 Scientific coordinator of the subproject “Progetto pilota per il monitoraggio di fauna macroinvertebrata e fauna interstiziale bentonica anche invasiva nel Lago Maggiore tramite approcci morfo-molecolari “ within CIPAIS sezione 3 “Ambienti litorali e tematiche emergenti”
2022/01/01 – 01/10/2023 Media and Communication Officer of INVASIVESNET- the International Association for Open Knowledge on Invasive Alien Species
2018/05/18 – 23/04/2025 Early Career Representative, Executive Committee of INVASIVESNET - the International Association for Open Knowledge on Invasive Alien Species,
2018 – coordinator fo the project “YES!BAT Sustainable Rice fields: say YES! To bats” awarded by the “Young Earth Solution! Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Fundation - BCFN YES! Award”
TEAM MEMBER
PRIN BAT-SIGNALS Bats signalling environmental contaminants: integration of non-invasive biomonitoring and -omics approaches (CNR Bat Research Coordinator)
Biodiversa+ Darco The vertical dimension of conservation: A cost-effective plan to incorporate subterranean ecosystems in post-2020 biodiversity and climate change agendas (team member of project PI)
LIFE 20 NAT/ES/000369 Restoration of aquatic ecosystems of protected areas from the Alps and Pyrenees LIFE RESCUE ALPYR (CNR Bat Research Coordinator)
Novel Ecology-Based Solution to Optimize the Treatment of Urban Sewage Waters @CNR ECOTREAT (team member)
A Planetary Inventory of Life LIFEPLAN (Lake Maggiore site co-coordinator)
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
2018 – current Associate Editor of BioInvasion Records, the International Journal of Field Research on Biological Invasions. IF2020: 1.608
2019 – 2021 Guest Editor of the Special Issue, "Freshwater Macroinvertebrates: Main Gaps and Future Trends" for Water IF2020: 3.103
As a mycologist, I’m specialized in the study of marine fungi, their taxonomy and physiology. I’m interested in deepening the knowledge of marine fungal enzymes and metabolites focusing on their bioactivity. I have also experience in plant pathology, with a main focus on rice blast disease (Pyricularia oryzae).