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Biography
ACADEMIC POSITION:
• Professor of Zoology at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy
• Associate Researcher of IAS, of the National Research Council
EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
• 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 , European Journal of Zoology
MAIN HONORS:
Medal of the National Academy of Sciences of Italy for Physics and Natural Sciences 2018.
• 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 Faculty of 1000
• 'Faculty Member of the Year' Award 2012 for the Faculty of Ecology of Faculty 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.
Scholar citations profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Syro5DUAAAAJ&hl=en