::Professional activities::

• 1991-present:Zoologist and Curator at Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Italy.
• 2009: He obtained the Sabin Award for Amphibian Conservation by IUCN and Amphibian Specialist Group
• 2007 onwards: Member of the Scientific Committee of the WWF Italia.
• 2004 onwards: Chair for Madagascar of the Amphibian Specialist Group / IUCN (formerly DAPTF).
• 2004-2005: Charged by Nando Peretti Foundation, Istituto Oikos, and National Amphibian Conservation Center to carry out a research on the "Status and Conservation of Scaphiophryne gottlebei, Mantella expectata, Mantella viridis, and Mantella bernhardi".
• 2002-2003: Charged by DAPTF/IUCN to carry out a research on the "Status and Conservation of Mantella cowani". This research was financially supported by a grant from DAPTF, WCS USA, and National Amphibian Conservation Center (NACC).
• 2000-2001: Charged by Dipartimento di Biologia di Roma, (Italy), and Environmental Ministery, to make a research on Pelobates fuscus insubricus and Salamandra lanzai (project Monitoring of the Conservation Status of the endangered amphibians and reptiles of Italy).
• 2000: Charged by the Association Europeenne pour l'Etude et la Conservation des Lemuriens (AEECL) of Mulhouse (France) for a zoological research in the transition forest of Sahamalaza Peninsula, NW Madagascar.
• 2000: Charged by the WWF Italy to prepare the Action Plan on Pelobates fuscus insubricus.
• 1998-2001: Collaboration for IUCN Species Survival Programme (Cambridge) for works of the "CITES Significant Trade Review", referring to Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar.

::Invited scientific participations::

• 18-21.IX.2006: Organiser of the Workshop "A Conservation Strategy for the Amphibians of Madagascar" held at Antananarivo, Madagascar.
• 27.IX-2.X.2005: Chairman for the session Ecology and Conservation of the European Amphibians I. at the 13th Congress of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica, Bonn, Germany.
• 2004 (repeated dates): Assessor of the Global Amphibian Assessment for Italy (done online).
• 22-25.IX.2003: Reviewer of the Global Amphibian Assessment for Madagascar, held at Gland (Switzerland).
• 26-27.III.2003: Lecturer to the International Symposium "Toward the Integration of Biodiversity Studies", under 21st Century COE program of Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan).
• 15-17.V.2002: Expert to the international workshop "Towards a Biodiversity Vision for the Alps", Gap (France).
• 04.V.2002: Lecturer to the annual meeting of the British Herpetological Society (London).
• 20-25.V.2001: Invited to the CAMP (Conservation Assessment Managing Plan) - "Evaluation et Plans de Géstion pour la Conservation de la Faune de Madagascar: L?muriens, Autres Mammif?res, Reptiles et Amphibiens, Poissons d'eau douce", Mantasoa (Madagascar).
• 28.VIII.-02.IX.2000: Lecturer to the 28th International Congress of Zoology, Athens (Greece).
• 31.VIII.-02.IX.1999: Chairman and lecturer at the Second International Congress on the Biogeography of Madagascar, Paris (France).
• 15.IV.1999: Member of the Jury (Examining Committee) for the "Doctorat d?Etat" (PhD) at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (candidate: J.M. Hoyos).
• 25-29.VIII.1998: Chairman and lecturer of the session Biogeography and distribution at the 9th Congress of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica, University of Savoie, Chambery, France.
• 012.IX.1995: Chairman and lecturer at the International Symposium Biogeography of Madagascar, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris, France).

::Stages and study periods in foreign countries::

• April 1996: Visiting Scholar, University of Michigan (USA), Museum of Zoology, within an international grant given by the Office of the Vice President for Research, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan.
• March 2002: Invited Professor at the Konstanz University (Prof. A. Meyer) for a study period on the molecular biology of Madagascan amphibians (through a fellowship of DAAD, Germany).
• April 2002: Invited Professor at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, Laboratoire des Reptiles et Amphibiens (Prof. A. Dubois) for a study and research on the amphibians and reptiles from Madagascar (through a fellowship of MNHN, France).

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