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Collegium Cieszkowskich New, III floor, room 339

Irene Piccini

Assistant professor

CV

  • 2022 - Certificate “Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)”, BRCGS – Global Supply Chain Assurance

  • 2014 – 2018 - PhD in Ecology – maximum grade: “with honors”, University of Turin (Italy)

  • 2010 – 2013 - Master’s Degree in Evolution of Animal and Human Behavior 110/110 cum laude with honorable mention, University of Turin (Italy)

  • 2006 – 2010 - Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics 101/110, University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy)

Experience and Employment

  • 2022-2023: Postdoc position on sustainable cities for pollinators – partially funded by H2020 proGIreg, University of Turin – Via Accademia Albertina 13, Turin, Italy

  • 2020-2022: Postdoc position on “Lepidoptera conservation, through species and community ecology”, University of Turin – Via Accademia Albertina 13, Turin, Italy

  • 2019-2020: Research scholarship as coordinator of the project “Biodiversity conservation along linear infrastructures” in Val di Susa (TO)

  • 2016-2017: Visiting Ph.D. Student at the Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Almas Allé 8, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden

  • 2014: Research Fellow at Science and Technology Organization – Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (STO – CMRE), NATO, STO (Science & Technology Organization), NATO – Viale San Bartolomeo 400, La Spezia, Italy

  • 2012: Research and field activity, University of Moroni (Moroni, Comoros) in cooperation with the University of Turin

Awards

  • Honorable mention for UZI-UTET Università awards. 2022: Honorable mention for a project of particular interest: “Bee responsive to PM: Genetic and behavioral honeybee response to particular matter”

  • Miglior Naturalista Piemontese 2018 – Best Piedmont Naturalist 2018: Best research in Piedmont in 2018 on “Greenhouse gas emissions from dung pats vary with dung beetle species and with assemblage composition”

  • Medaglia d’Argento – Silver Decoration. 2011/2012: Best Thesis of “Evolution of Animal and Human Behavior” at the University of Turin in the academic year 2011/2012.

  • PREMIO OPTIME – Optime award. 2011/2012: Award for outstanding merit as student at University of Turin as graduated in the academic year 2011/2012.

Other Activities

  • 2023- ongoing: Editorial apprenticeship, Ecological Entomology, Journal

  • 01/11/2022 – 01/07/23: Guest editor for Special Issue “Lepidoptera’s Biodiversity and Conservation in the 21st Century” in Biology – IF 5.079, JCR – Q1 (Biology) / CiteScore – Q1 (General Agricultural and Biological Sciences)

  • 18-22 of October 2017: Co-organizer – “Second Joint Meeting of Société Zoologique de France and Unione Zoologica Italiana” – Turin (Italy).

Selected projects

  • Principal investigator on the project Pollinators et al. funded by Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN – Poland National Center of Sciences) and by Marie Curie Skłodowska Program (Project N. 2022/47/P/NZ8/01208)

  • Principal investigator on the project “Butterfly monitoring during project construction in the Melezet SIC – (Turin, Italy)”, Funded by Consorzio Forestale Alta Val Susa

  • Postdoc on proGIreg (European Union’s Horizon 2020 innovation action programme under grant agreement no. 776528)

  • Coordinator of the project “Biodiversity conservation along linear infrastructures” in Val di Susa (TO, Italy) · Assistant in LIFE Caretta Calabria (http://www.tartarugacaretta.it/); LIFE TROTA (www.lifetrota.it); LIFE BIOEUPARKS (http://www.bioeuparks.eu/).

  • Student on BIRD (Biodiversity Integration and Rural Development, Contract FED 2009/217077, ACPUE Science and Technology Programme) and SCORE (Supporting COoperation for Research and Education, ACP Contract ACP RPR 118 # 36, ACP- UE Edulink Programme)

Teaching

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Research interests

  • Communities, mobility and ecological roles of insects (beetles, butterflies, bees and hoverflies) across different ecosystems, spanning from urban to agricultural fields and mountains.

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