Emilio Sperone received his MSc in Natural Sciences from the University of Calabria in 2000 and a PhD in Animal Biology from the same university in 2004. He has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Calabria from 2006 to 2018. He is an Associate Professor of Zoology at the Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria. His research interests cover many aspects of the biology, ecology, ethology, and conservation of amphibians, reptiles, and marine vertebrates, in particular elasmobranchs, bony fishes, and cetaceans.