Director of the Research Centre for Forestry and Wood - CREA Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (Italy)
Full Professor at the University of Tuscia, Italy (on secondment).
Main research fields: forest monitoring and management, landscape planning.
Author of over 600 scientific and technical publications, of which more than 210 on ISI WoS or SCOPUS journals, and 25 books.
H-index Google Scholar = 53; H-index Scopus = 43.
Director of the Department of Forest Environment and Resources of the University of Tuscia (Italy), from 2009 to 2011. Director of the Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-Food and Forest Systems of the University of Tuscia, from 2011 to 2013. Director of the Forestry Research Centre of the Italian Council for Agricultural Research (CRA, Italy), from 2013 to 2017. Director of the Research Center for Forestry and Wood of the Italian Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), from 2017 to 2020 and from 2022 until now.
Dean of the School of Forest and Environmental Sciences at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Tuscia, from 2002 to 2009. Dean of the School of Landscape Design and Land Planning of the Sapienza University Rome and University of Tuscia, 2021.
VicePresident of the Italian Academy of Forest Sciences. Member of the Italian National Academy of Agriculture. Member of the Academy of Georgofili (Italy).
Member of the Wood-chain Advisory Board of the Italian Ministry for Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), from 2015 to 2021. Chairman of the Steering Committee of UN-FAO European Forestry Commission - Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds, from 2015 to 2017.
Member of the Italian National Committee against Hazards, Italian Department for Civil Protection, from 2012 to 2017. Member of the Poplar Commission of the Italian Ministry for Agricultural, Food and Forest Policies, from 2019 to 2020. President of the Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, from 2012 to 2015.