Biography

Associate Professor of Conservation Biology and Biodiversity at the University of Bologna from 2021, where he is also a member of the BIOME – Biodiversity and Macroecology Lab.

Ecologist and evolutionary biologist. PhD in forest ecology.

His interdisciplinary research deals with Ecosystem and Planetary Health, Biodiversity (plant & animal) and Global Environmental Protection, occurring at the interface between ecology, evolution, and ethology.

From 2015 to 2021, he was an Associate Professor at the Biological Institute and the coordinator of the MSc Program in Biodiversity of the Tomsk State University (TSU), in Russia.

He also served as an Associate Professor at the Polytechnic of Rouen UniLaSalle (France), a Senior Research Fellow of the Konrad Lorenz Institute (KLI) for Evolution and Cognition Research (Austria), a Research Associate at the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources of Purdue University (USA), and a Visiting Professor of the Beijing Forestry University (China).

He is a member of the IUCN and Society for Conservation Biology, and an external faculty of the KLI. Before, he was a researcher at CMCC and a consultant of the UN-FAO and WWF.

He is an advisory board member of Biodiversity and Conservation, Ecological Modelling, Sustainability, and Biological Theory journals and the scientific director of the magazine Villaggio Globale – Trimestrale di Ecologia.

He published more than 70 scientific papers and more than 200 articles on popular science. He also works as a freelance wildlife photo-reporter. Furthermore, he is the author of a novel, 2 non-fiction (essay) books, 2 naturalistic guidebooks, 6 photobooks, and 3 academic monographs on biodiversity in Italian, English, and Russian.

Contacts
E-mail: roberto.cazzollagatti@unibo.it