Pasquale Ricci was born in Rome, Italy in 1987. Pasquale Ricci holds a PhD in Environmental Science and his main research interests are the ecological modeling applied to the food web dynamics and fishing impacts, as well as the assessment of cetacean–fishery interactions in the Northern Ionian Sea. He collaborates with the Ecology team of the Department of Biology (University of Bari) for the data collection and analysis aimed at the fishery stock assessment in the Ionian and Adriatic Sea.