EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE
2019-current Full Professor in Agricultural Chemistry at the Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padua, (Italy)
2014-2019 Associate Professor in Agricultural Chemistry Department of Agrifood Production and Environmental Sciences, University of Florence, Florence (Italy)
2004-2014 Research scientist in Agricultural Chemistry at the Department of Agrifood Production and Environmental Sciences, University of Florence, Florence (Italy)
2002-2004 Post doc position at the Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, University of Florence, Florence (Italy)
1998-2002 PhD course in Agricultural Chemistry at the Catholic University of Milan
1998 – 1999 Visiting research scientist at Rothamsted Experimental Station, (UK)

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
During my scientific activity I have studied the fate and availability of nutrients and pollutants using various chemical speciation techniques and biosensors in soil and in the rhizosphere. I have determined the impact of pollution on soil functional activity using biochemical and bio-molecular techniques including genomics, proteomics, volatilomics, and microarrays. In the last fifteen years I have studied the potential of various bio-remediation approaches for a sustainable management of polluted sites, and the effects of biochar amendment in agricultural soils.

Research Projects
PRIN 2005 (cod. 2005074218_003)
PRIN 2007 (cod. 20074SJTLW_003)
PRIN 2009 (cod. 2009MWY5F9_002)
2008 ERA-NET SUMATECS - Sustainable management of trace element contaminated soil of a decision tool system and its evaluation for practical application.
(2010-2013) EU FP7 KBBE.2010.3.5-01 Gentle remediation of trace element contaminated land ‘GREENLAND’.
2012 PRIME-XS Network (Contract no. 262067- PRIME-XS) competitive access to proteomics technology platforms.
2013-2015 EU LIFE 12 ENV/IT/000652 ‘CLEANSED’
2015-2018 EU LIFE 14 ENV/IT/000113 ‘HORTISED’
2018-2020 EU LIFE17 ENV/IT/000269 ‘AGRISED’
2019-2022 PRID Project, University of Padua COMPOSTANDARD (Project Coordinator).
2020-2022 UniImpresa project (University of Padua) ‘SOILBANK’ (Project Coordinator)
2023-2025 PRIN (cod. 2022372A7R) Project coordinator

OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
I have been the chairman of the 11th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements (11th ICOBTE Florence July, 3-8 2011), I’m the Italian representative of the Board of the COST ACTION (CA19116 PLANTMETAL). I have supervisored undergraduate students, PhD students and post-doc visiting scientists from several countries, and I currently share collaboration with several Scientific Institutions around the world. I am member of the editorial board of three international scientific journals: ‘Biology and Fertility of Soils’, ‘Sustainability’ and Frontiers in Plant Science

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
I have co-authored 120 peer reviewed scientific papers listed in SOPUS, total citazions > 6500, (H index = 43), and 15 chapters in international scientific books. I have co-edited the international scientific book entitled ‘Omics in soil science’ Caister Academic Press (2014).

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