Personale docente

Full Professor of Systematic Botany (BIOS01/B), orcid.org/0000-0001-6138-4165

2025-LifeWatchItaly Steering Committee

2024-Directors Board Society of Botany

2023-Coordinator Thematic WG on Plant Biodiversity of the Past

2022-Member RIRE-Rete Italiana Ripristino Ecologico

2021-Delegate UNIMORE LifeWatchItaly

2021-Member PAGES Human Trace Group

2015-Creator of BRAIN database

2012-2023: Coordinator Italian Working Group of Palynology-Society of Botany

2008-2016: Italian delegate of International Federation Palynological Societies

1995-present: Contributor to EU Pollen, EPModern, and African P Databases

Publications (August 2025):

No. papers: 163 (Scholar); 159 (Scopus); 117 (WoS)

No. citations: 6282 (Scholar); 5779 (Scopus); 4767 (WoS)

H-index: 43 (Scholar); 46 (Scopus); 43 (WoS)

2018-2024: Head of Master in LM6 Biosciences

Lecturer of ‘Botany’ and ‘Plant Bioindicators’-UNIMORE,

‘Archaeobotany’-UNIMI.

Member of Doctorate School M3ES-UNIMORE.

Supervisor >90 Bachelor and Master theses in Biology, Natural Sciences, Cultural Heritage,

and 12 PhD students.

Member 2020 VQR Panel GEV05 ANVUR

Reviewer: >300 peer-reviewed papers, and 55 projects (incl. 3 ERC)

Editorial boards: Discover Sustainability-Springer Nature; Anthropocene; Frontiers E&E

Plenary lectures

2018: CASSINO, MetroArcheo – Why, what and how can archaeobotany measure the past?

2008: PALMA DE MALLORCA, APLE – Palynology applied to Forensic Sciences. Projects

2023-: Partner National Geographic Society “RESPIRE - Research Educational & Storytelling Project Italian Remote Ecosystem” NGS-102425E-23

2023-: Beneficiary H2020 MSCA DN-2022-01 “Natural Traces”, NT in forensic investigations – how pollen imprints can solve crime, GA 101120165

2022-: Biodiversity National Future Centre, Spoke 3, UNIMORE partner

2022-: Team Leader Loeb Found.“Aqua Traiana”, Texas University

2020-22: Supervisor - host institution EU MSCA-IF “OLEA - Olea expansion and mosaic Landscape formation in island Environment since human Arrival”

2019-21: ERC “nEU -MED”, Participant and Scientific Committee, UniSI

2016-20: Member of SCOPSCO (Scientific Collaboration on Past Speciation Conditions in lake Ohrid; published on Nature)

2016-20: Co-PI PRIN2015 “SUCCESSO-TERRA”

2015-16: PI “SELCE – SElvatici Cereali: Wild cereals: our future and the reply of plants to climate change, Fondazione Cassa Risparmio MO

2013-14: Unit Leader ‘Environmental Biology’, UNIMORE Strategic Lines ‘Environment, food and health’, WP2

2013: Supervisor - host institution SPINNER GEOMELISSO,

‘Piana R&C srl’ Bologna, on melissopalynology/honey quality

2010-15: Team Leader Loeb Found., NSF USA “RPP-Excavating the Roman Peasant”, Penn Univ.

2010-12: PI PRIN08 “PICAR - Cultural landscaPe and human Impact in Circum-Mediterranean countries”

2007-09: PI EU Culture 2000 “PaCE – Plants and Culture: seeds of the cultural heritage of Europe”

2005-06: Unit Leader EU Culture 2000 “Cultural landscapes of the past"