CVRRICVLVM Vitae

A Short Vitae

• 1983 : "Laurea in Scienze Agrarie" (MSc Degree  in Agricultural Sciences) -Facoltà di Agraria, Università di Napoli, Italy. 
• 1983-86 :  Voluntary research assistant in the Department of General and Systematic Botany of the Faculty [School] of Agriculture of the University of Naples.
• 1987-2006 : Curatorial work and organization Herbarium Lucanum [HLUC] ;
• 1986 : Researcher in Systematic Botany at the University of Basilicata, USB-PZ (Faculty [School] of Agriculture).
• 1990-1992 : Fulbright Scholarship - Department of Biology - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
• 1992-1993 : Teaching Assistant at UNC for two semesters (for the "General Biology", and "Plants and Man" courses).
• 1992 : Graduate classes on "Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Desert Ecology," The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel.
• 1992-2001 : Visiting scholar at University of California - Berkeley. Department of Integrative Biology, Bryology Lab (several times).
• 1992-onward : Teaching of Courses in General and Systematic Botany (to Agriculture students). Environmental and Forest Botany (to Forestry students), Plant Morphology and Botany (to Biotechnology students), Botany (Education Science), and Plant Physiology to post-graduate students.
• 2002 : Visiting Scholar - University of Tirana, Botanical Garden.
• 2003 : Partecipazione al corso: Introduzione alla Lichenologia ed alla Briologia (Attending An Introductory Course to Lichenology and Bryology), organized by the Italian Society of Lichenology and the Working Groups for Bryology and Lichenology of the Italian Botanical Society. University of Palermo.
• 2004 : Organization of a Course of Alta Formazione (Higher Studies), open to graduate students and professionals in the relevant fields, " Introduzione alla Lichenologia ed alla Briologia (An Introductory Course to Lichenology and Bryology) ", 4 ECTS. In cooperation with the Italian Society of Lichenology and the Working Groups for Bryology and for Lichenology of the Italian Botanical Society. 13-19 September
• 2006-present. : Curatorial work - bryological herbarium (Lab. of Bryology):
• 2006 : IV Balkan Botanical Congress. Sophia, Bulgaria, 20-26 June.
• 2010 : 7th Scientific Meeting of the Working Group for Bryology of the Italian Botanical Society, "Linee di ricerca nuove e classiche nella Briologia italiana (Classic and New Research Directions for Italian Bryology)" – Potenza, July 1st.
• 2012 : 1st Balkan Conference on Biology and Reproduction in Farm Animals and Acquacolture. Tirana - Albania. 23-25 May.
• 2012 : Field trip for the Working Group for Bryology of the Italian Botanical Society to the Pollino National Park (July 5-8) ( Program ).
• 2015 : VI Balkan Botanical Congress. Rijeka, Croatia, 14-18 September.

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• ECCB (European Committee for the Conservation of Bryophytes) country contact for Albania since March 2004.
• Evaluator (peer-reviewer) for the GNSF (Georgia National Science Fundation): 2008-2012.
• Referee for PRIN 2009 (Italian Ministry of Instruction, University and Research).
• Peer reviewer for Cryptogamie-Bryologie (2008).
• IAB (International Association of Bryologists): Country Contact for Albania and Italy.
• Organization of the Darwin Day in Potenza in 2011 and 2012 .

Field activities

Several collecting campaigns (bryophyte collecting mainly) in Venezuela, Mexico, United States, Israel, Greece, Albania, Macedonia (FYROM), southern Italy.

Research Interests

See under "Laboratorio di Briologia". Other ongoing projects,  some of them in cooperation with colleagues at USB-PZ, include: Studies on the vascular and bryophytic flora and vegetation of Basilicata; a census of the Vascular Flora of Basilicata; studies on the effect of weak electric fields on plant growth, in cooperation with colleagues from my Institution and the University of Naples; studies on the vascular flora in archeological sites in cooperation with colleagues from the School of Archeology of Matera.