Delegate for Museums and Collections

Mauro Varotto was born in Padova in 1970. Graduated in Literature with a specialization in geography, he obtained his PhD in "Man and Environment" in 2000. Since 2010 he has been associate professor of Geography and Cultural Geography at the Department of Historical, Geographical and Antiquity Sciences of the University of Padova.

Member of the Academic Senate of the University of Padua from 2015 to 2019, he is scientific coordinator of the Museum of Geography of the University of Padua (the first museum dedicated to Geography, open to the public in 2019), of the series "Mappamondi" and of the GEOMUSE Working Group on university geographical heritage in Italy.

Delegate of the Italian Geographical Society, he is one of the promoters of the International Terraced Landscapes Alliance (of which he organized the III World Meeting in 2016 in Padova) and coordinator since 2008 of the Terre Alte Group of the Central Scientific Committee of the Italian Alpine Club.

He is the author of more than 120 scientific publications on topics concerning contemporary mountains, historical rural landscapes, the history of geography and geographical heritage, public geography; he produced the documentary Piccola terra, best Italian documentary at the Cinemambiente Festival in Turin 2012. Among his latest published works: Mountains of the Twentieth Century. The face of modernity in the Veneto Alps and Pre-Alps (Cierre editions, 2017); World Terraced Landscapes: History, environment, quality of life (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2019, edited with Luca Bonardi and Paolo Tarolli); Explore Measure Tells. At the origins of the first museum of Geography in Italy (Cierre editions, 2020, with Giovanni Donadelli, Chiara Gallanti and Elena Canadelli); Mountains in between. A New Geography (Einaudi, 2020), Journey into the Italy of the Anthropocene. The visionary geography of our future (with Telmo Pievani, Aboca editions 2021).