Professor in Agricultural Chemistry at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC)
Scientist involved in national and international projects and teacher of University and master courses on risk assessment and management, sutainaiblity of the food chains. Some samples of projects of the last years: 2-FUN on Integrated Risk Assessment of pollutants, LIFE project ArtWET on Mitigation of agricultural nonpoint-source pollution and phytoremediation in artificial wetland ecosystems, GENESIS project on Groundwater and Dependent Ecosystems, RISK-CYCLE on the risk of chemical at a global scale, Coordination Action HEROIC Project on the integration and cross-fertilization of knowledge on human and environmental risk assessment of chemicals, H2020 WATERPROTECT, ERASMUS PLUS. Project BEVISICURO on the risk communication for a sound management and use of water. Projects on behalf of the Ministries for the Environment, Agriculture, Research. Project on Education, Information and Training for the Rural Development, Coordination of training programmes (BTSF), cooperation with NGOs in citizen science and ecosystem protection (associasione piacecibosano.org), responsible for development of public standards in sustainability for the oil and wine foodchain. Actually director of the European Observatory on sustainable agriculture OPERA he published more than 250 scientific papers and books.
