Born in Piedmont, Italy.
B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the University of Turin, where I started working on butterfly conservation.
Intern at the Geopatial Analysis Deptartment at Zion National Park (Utah, USA) thanks to a “Fondazione CRT” grant https://www.fondazionecrt.it/en/.
Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, in Prof. Scott Nielsen’s Lab https://ace-lab.ca/, funded by the LRIGS program https://lrigs.ualberta.ca/, to understant how human activities affect biodiversity in the Alberta Boreal forest.
Postdoc at Lenore Fahrig’s Lab https://carleton.ca/fahriglab/, studying the conservation potential of small habitat patches.
Postdoctoral fellow at eButterfly https://www.e-butterfly.org/, funded by Mitacs https://www.mitacs.ca/en, to mobilize large-scale community science data for butterfly conservation across North America.
Postdoctoral fellow at Antoine Guisan’s Lab https://www.unil.ch/ecospat/en/home.html funded by a Marie Curie fellowship in collaboration with Dr. David Roy, UKCEH https://www.ceh.ac.uk/staff/david-roy to understand how climate change will affect butterflies across Europe.
Assistant professor at VU Amsterdam https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/federico-riva. Bridging gaps among landscape ecology, complexity science, and conservation.
