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CURRICULUM VITAE PROF. FABIO DE RENSIS
(DVM Italy, MPhil UK, PhD Canada)

ORCID 0000-0002-8595-473X

Personal Information

Name De Rensis Fabio
Address Via C.A. Dalla Chiesa, 43121, Parma, Italia
Telephone 0039.3392172315
Fax 0039.0521902798
E-mail Fabio.derensis@unipr.it

Nationality Italian

Date of birth 3 November 1958

Family language Italian

Other languages English
reading good
writing good
oral good

Other languages Spanish
reading good
writing low
oral Just enough

Work experience

dates (from-to) 2008-today
Name and address of employer Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Parma.
Occupation or position held Senior Professor
Main activities and responsibilities Research and teaching

Dates (from-to) 1991-2007
Name and address of employer Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Parma.
Occupation or position held Associate Professor
Main activities and responsibilities Research and teaching

Date 1987-1990
Name and address of employer Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan, Italy.
Occupation or position held Research
Main activities and responsibilities Research and teaching

Date (from – to) 1985-1986
Name and address of employer Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy.
Type of business or sector Collaboratore Tecnico Professionale National Council of Research (CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
Main activities and responsibilities Research

Date 1984
Name and address of employer Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan, Italy.
Occupation or position held DVM University collaborator
Main activities and responsibilities Research and teaching

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Date 1977-1983
Name and type of organisation providing education and training Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy
Title of qualification awarded Degree (DVM) in Veterinary Medicine

Date 1984
Name and type of organisation providing education and training Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Bologna, Italy
Title of qualification awarded Registered DVM

Date 1987
Name and type of organisation providing education and training Department of Animal Physiology end Environmental Science, University of Nottingham, U.K.
Principal subjects covered The endocrine control of the postpartum anestrus in sow.
Title of qualification awarded Master (MPhil)

Name and type of organisation providing education and training 1993
Department of Animal Science, University of Alberta, Canada.
Principal subjects covered The control of follicular development in post partum sow
Title of qualification awarded Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

Date 1991
Name and type of organisation providing education and training N.A.T.O Fulbright in Endocrine control of reproduction in domestic animal
Title of qualification awarded Scholarship

Date 1987, 1989, 1990
Name and type of organisation providing education and training National Council of Research (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR), Italia
Title of qualification awarded Scholarship

SOCIAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
Living and working with other people, in multicultural environments, in positions where communication is important and situations where team work is essential I have been collaborating with several Italian and International Institute of research (Faculty of Veterinary Science or Animal Production) also for prolonged periods. These experiences gave me the opportunity to develop the skills for collaboration with people.
I have experience for 20 years in the organization of teaching (practical) duties (see above). Other skill that have been developed by my activity in sport (see above)
I have been Coordinator of some Italian and International research projects: projects:

- CNR The control of follicular development in dairy cow (n° 95.04411, n °99.03116.0T06)
- FIL (ex 60%) years 1996-2010,
- Italian Foreign Affair Office. Three years project
1) Italy-Vietnam 2001-2005
2) Italy-Japan 2002-2006
- research Project Italian Foreign Affair Office (legge 401) years 2002 and 2003.
- Duo Thailand research and teaching program year 2007

I supervised more the 40 Theses for DVM Degree. One of these thesis (1992-1993) has been awarded as the best Thesis of the year for the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Parma (only 3 thesis of the Faculty achieved this award).

Research in endocrinology of reproduction in domestic animal and animal welfare.

Teaching activity for the curses of:
Veterinary etology (2° year course in Animal Production (SZTPA)
Biotechnology in Veterinary medicine (4° Year course, 30h).
Physiology o domestic animal (2° Year curse in Science and technology in Animal Production, 50 h)
Members of the course of PhD committee in Science in Animal Production

OTHER SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES not mentioned above
Significant periods of research and teaching out of Italy:
Within the Socrates-Erasmus program I have been giving seminar and lectures at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine or Domestic Animal Science of:

University of Uppsala (Sweden), (10 days)
University of Utrecht (Nederland) (1 weeks)
RVC London (UK) (2 weeks)
University of Budapest (Hungary) (3 weeks),
University of Caceres (10 days), Leon (3 weeks), Zaragoza (2 weeks), Valencia (2 weeks), Lerida (3 weeks) and Madrid (Spain) 2 (weeks),
University of Zagabria, Croatia Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (4 weeks)

I have been doing research activity at the Faculty of Veterinary Science of:
University of Brisbane (Australia) (3 weeks)
University of Sidney (1 week)
University of Colorado State, USA (month 1)
University of Tokyo Japan (4 weeks)
University of Chulalongkorn, Bangkok, Thailand (total 14 months)
Department of Biotechnology, Hanoi, Vietnam (6 months)

Coordinator of Italian and International research projects:

- Scientific § Technological program for Italian Foreign Affair Office. Three years projects:
1) Italy-Vietnam 2001-2005
2) Italy-Japan 2002-2006
- research Project Italian Foreign Affair Office (legge 401) years 2002 and 2003.
- Duo Thailand research and teaching program year 2007
- CNR The control of follicular development in dairy cow (n° 95.04411, n °99.03116.0T06)
- FIL (ex 60%) years 1996-2010,
SUPAR and SUIFERT research project
Overworl program University of Parma

Supervisor of Undergraduate and Postgraduate students.
-Supervisor of more the 40 theses for DVM Degree. One of these thesis (1992-1993) has been awarded as the best Thesis of the year for the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Parma (only 3 thesis of the Faculty achieved this award).
- Tutor of six PhD student and now I have one PhD student under my supervision.
-external supervisor for a PhD of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Chulalongkorn, Thailand, for a PhD from Sidney, Australia and from University of LLerida and University of Leon, Spain.

I have been speaker for several Italian and International meeting.

Mayor research interests The major research interest regard the neuroendocrine control of the hypothalamo-hypophysial-ovarian axis in domestic animals with a particular attention to species as the sow, cow, buffalo, ewe, goat and dog.
The main scientific research that in which I am involved concerns:
a) the study the effect of thermal stress on fertility,
b) the oestrus synchronization in swine, dairy cow and buffalo,
c) synchronization of farrowing in sows,
d) the welfare of piglets during the early post-partum period.
e) The control of follicular activity in the female dog.
f) The ultrasound and elastography study of the genital tract in dog and swine

Main teaching activity for courses of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production and Food Technology (SZTPA)

Publication: Prof. De Rensis has published more then 59 papers
His publication's parameters from SCOPUS are: H index 15 with 1130 citation

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2024/2025

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2023/2024

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2022/2023

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2021/2022

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2020/2021

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2019/2020

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2018/2019

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2017/2018

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2016/2017

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2015/2016

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2014/2015

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