Irene Piccini

Assistant Professor

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)

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

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.

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).

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)

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

Pollinators et al.

POLLINATORS’ streETs as vitAL connections to maintain functional urban area

Department of Zoology