I am a Senior Editor for the open-access journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. Before becoming a full-time Editor, I got my hands dirty (often literally) in ecological research on three continents. Until summer 2018 I was a postdoctoral researcher in Diana Wall's lab at Colorado State University, USA. I am an alumnus of University College Dublin and Wageningen University (PhD degree in Soil Ecology), University of Aberdeen (Master of Research in Ecology and Environmental Sustainability), and Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (bachelor's and master's degrees in Scienze della Natura). Besides the various offices and laboratories, my work places included a puffin-infested island in the North Sea, the North American short-grass steppe, tulip-bordered fields below the sea level, a ravine ending on one of the most spectacular stretches of coast in the Mediterranean, and the out-of-this-world McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. To this day, a polluted urban stream in the metropolitan area of Naples remains my most unlikely and dangerous fieldwork location.
For a more or less up-to-date list of my academic publications, please go here.
Besides ecology, I have a broad interest in almost all branches of science (but I don't claim expertise in any of them!). I enjoy writing stories, informing myself on human history and hiking near the sea and up the mountains and anywhere in between.
For a more or less up-to-date list of my academic publications, please go here.
Besides ecology, I have a broad interest in almost all branches of science (but I don't claim expertise in any of them!). I enjoy writing stories, informing myself on human history and hiking near the sea and up the mountains and anywhere in between.