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Academic education
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since 2006
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Leader of the Research group Insubric Ecosystems at the Community Ecology Research Unit, WSL Bellinzona
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2008-2009
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Academic
training and visiting scientist at the Numerical Ecology Lab of Prof. Dr.
Pierre Legendre, Montreal University, Quebec, Canada
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2002-2006
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Researcher at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Bellinzona
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2004
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Postdoc at the School of GeoScience, University
of Edinburgh (Prof. Dr. Colin Legg)
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2003
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PhD thesis at Swiss Federal Research Institute
WSL, Birmensdorf and
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Switzerland (Prof. Dr.
Peter Edward). Thesis title: "Effect of fire on the invertebrate
communities in chestnut forests in Southern Switzerland"
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Professional and Research experience, Grants and Awards
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2013-2014
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Biodiversity in periurban chestnut grows in Southern Switherland. Function: Leader
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2011-2013
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Project "Biodiversity indicator of land-use processes and gradients" supported by the Federal Office for the Environment. Function: Co-leader
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2010
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Award for transdisciplinary research – BiodiverCity project has been short listed by the Swiss Academics of Arts and Sciences
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2010-2011
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Project “Urban Biodiversity” supported by Federal Office for the Environment.
Function: Project leader
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2009-2012
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CCES-ENHANCE Function: Leader of the task
“Connectivity in fragmented urban environment”
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2006-2010
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EU project FIRE-PARADOX Function: Co-applicant
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2005-2009
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NRP 54 Sustainable
Development of the Built Environment Function: Leader of the project “BiodiverCity”
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2003-2005
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Project SELPI (Bat Conservation in Chestnut orchards) Function: Project leader
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1998-2003
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PhD-student at the ETH Zurich and WSL Bellinzona (parallel to the private
working activities)
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1993-2002
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Founder and Co-director of the
Ecological Consulting Office Maddalena
& Moretti Sagl., Gordevio, Switzerland
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1991-2001
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Leader of the
Bat Conservation Trust Ticino (Switzerland)
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1990-1992
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Ecological consulter as
freelance
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Major Research Areas
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Modeling
spatio-temporal effect of environmental changes on biodiversity across taxa,
trophic guilds, biomes, and types of stressors
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Investigating the relationship between biodiversity, community
composition, and ecosystem function and underlying services
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Model organisms: several animal groups (mainly arthropods) and plants
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Model processes and stressors: changes of forest fire regime; changes of
traditional management practices in forests, meadows and pastures;
urbanization; invasion by alien species
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Teaching activities
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Since 2003, University of
Applied Sciences Zurich: field week course on "Biodiversity and
Bioindication"
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Since 2003, ETH
Zurich and University of
Applied Sciences Zurich: field excursions on "Fire ecology"
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Supervision
of Undergraduates, Master and PhD students
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Countless courses and talks
to the public in all Swiss regions
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Membership
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Swiss Zoological Society
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Swiss Entomological Society
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Swiss Society for Wildlife Biology
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British Ecological Society (BES)
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European Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)
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International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE)
International Association of Arachnology (ISA)
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WWF Switzerland, Pro Natura, Società ticinese di Scienze naturali
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