Global Change Ecology

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
• Professor of Zoology at the University of Salento, Italy
• Associate Researcher of ISMAR, of the National Research Council

EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
• Editor in chief of the Italian Journal of Zoology
• Member or past member of the editorial boards of: Advances in Oceanography and Limonology, Aquatic Biology, Aquatic Invasions, Cahiers de Biologie Marine, Ecology Letters, Italian Journal of Zoology, Journal of Evolutionary Biology

MAIN HONORS:
• Prix Manley Bendall 2005, Albert 1er Medal for Oceanography, given by the Institut Océanographique de Paris
• "Faculty Member of the Year" Award 2011 for the Faculty of Ecology of F of 1000

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
• Marine Protected Areas
• Hydrozoan Taxonomy, Biology, Ecology, and Evolution
• Life Cycles
• Developmental Biology
• Evolutionary Ecology
• History and Philosophy of Science
• Scientific Museology

My work is cited by the Encyclopaedia Britannica, The McGraw Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, The McGraw Hill Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology, The Italian Edition of Mikey Mouse journal, The New York Times, Time Magazine (with a cover story), Frank Zappa.