I obtained a degree in Forest Sciences in 1989 at the University of Florence and a PhD in Forest Pathology at the University of Bologna in 1995. I completed two years of scholarship at the CNR of Florence. I spent three months at the University of Wageningen. Subsequently, I spent four years at the University of Helsinki, and won an individual EU Human Capital and Mobility scholarship project and a Return Fellowship at CREA . I was former head of the Environmental Biotechnology Platform and former head of the Forest Ecology Unit at the Research and Innovation Centre of Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM) and at the Agricultural Institute San Michele all’Adige. At present, I am a senior scientist at FEM. My work activity is at the intersection between forest pathology, microbiology, plant genetics, biodiversity, ecology and adaptation to climatic changes. My experience and interests are in forest dynamics, particularly in the Alpine mountain forests. I am author of over 90 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and eight book chapters (Index H= 24, over 2000 Scopus citations). I am also the author and co-author of over 300 technical and popular articles in international and national journals and magazines. I have teaching experience of over 19 years in the Universities of Trento, Udine, Verona, Milano and Bozen. During these courses, I have acted as the tutor of 10 PhD dissertations and 20 MSc thesis.