Profile

Full Professor of animal breeding and genetics at the University of Bologna. He works in the fields of animal genetics and breeding, animal genomics and authenticity of food products. His research interests are mainly towards the application of genomics, metagenomics, metabolomics and phenomics in the animal production sector, for food characterization, authentication and traceability and for environmental characterization. His research activities include all main livestock species, aquaculture species, wild and extinct animal species, honey bees and other insects and environmental DNA. He has been involved or he is still involved in several national and international research projects, including Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. He has published more than 250 peer reviewed scientific papers (h index = 35).

He has been the coordinator of the project "Analysis of honey and honey bee DNA to support the apiculture sector and monitor hive pathogens in Emilia Romagna region" funded by Regione Emilia-Romagna, Italy (2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022). He is an expert on apicultural genomics.