Marco Ciolli (Università di Trento) has a PhD in Forestry. Since 2002, he has been an Assistant Professor at DICAM and C3A, University of Trento, Italy. He teaches Master and PhD courses in Applied Ecology, Spatial Ecological Modelling and GIS. His research interests are biodiversity conservation, gis modelling, landscape ecology and ecological connectivity, forest cover change, remote sensing, ecological informatics, tropical ecology, ecosystem services evaluation, remote sensing and natural hazards, invasive species, dendrochronology, traditional ecological knowledge, renewable energy, forest insurance, food sustainability and rural urban metabolism. He coordinated national and International Research Projects and published 81 scientific research papers, 11 book chapters and 52 conference papers. He organized Summer Schools, GIS courses and workshops in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and North America, wrote educational tutorials and contributed to QGIS and GRASS plugins/addons. He is the co-chair of UNESCO in Engineering for Human and Sustainable Development UNITN.