Elena Pisani, PhD in Real Estate Appraisal and Land Economics, is an associate professor in Agricultural Economics and Rural Appraisal (SSD AGR/01) at the Dep. "Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali - TESAF" of the University of Padova (Italy) from November 2010. She was a researcher in the same department from December 2010 to October 2020. She was part of the research team of the European Horizon 2020 project SIMRA "Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas" (http://www.simra-h2020.eu) from 2016 to 2020. She was part of the research team in 26 projects financed by public and private organizations. Furthermore, she has collaborated on research projects funded by FAO, IFAD, and ILO. Her research activities concern the assessment of innovation and social capital in rural areas by using Social Network Analysis. Furthermore, she studies the relations among beneficiaries of projects financed via the European LIFE program for the Environment and Climate Action. She has published over 100 scientific publications (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8918-2781) (https://www.research.unipd.it). She is a member of the Doctoral School TARS-LERH of the TESAF Department. She collaborates as a reviewer with several international scientific journals (e.g., Land Use Policy, The Social Sciences Journal, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Open Agriculture). She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Sciences and Frontiers in Environmental Economics.