I am full Professor of Pedology at the University of Torino, Dept. of Agricultural Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA) since October 2016 and have the qualification for professorship since 2013. Previously, I have been Associate professor of Pedology from 2002 to 2016 and researcher in Soil Science from 1992 to 2002 at the same University.
I have been the Director of the Doctoral School of the University of Torino, from October 2021 to September 2024. From 2018 to 2021 I’ve been the coordinator of the PhD program in Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences of the University of Torino, and I’ve been sitting in the PhD board since 2010.
I speak fluently English and French, and I have also studied German and Russian.
I obtained my PhD in Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy in 1992, defending a thesis on the weathering of soil layer silicates, and have a MSc degree in Agricultural Sciences (1987, Thesis topic: Soil Chemistry). I spent two periods abroad as a visiting person in research laboratories: in 1991 at Liège University (Belgium) at the Laboratoire de Géologie des Argiles and in 2000, at CSIRO Land and Water in Adelaide (Australia). Besides Italy, I have field/lab experience on soil research in Botswana, Namibia, Czech Republic, Australia, Russia and Japan, acquired during several research projects, mainly funded by the EU.
