Cino Pertoldi is the Chairman of the Aalborg Zoo Conservation Foundation (AZCF). He completed his PhD studies at Aarhus University in 2001. His research focuses on empirical conservation and evolutionary genetics of animals but also includes conceptual and theoretical studies in the interface between genetics, ecology, and evolution. He has merged current efforts in evolutionary and ecological genetics, complementing molecular genetics and macroecology in order to understand how genetic measures can indicate causal processes. He has 227 publications with 4605 citations and an h-index of 31 (Scopus, 28 November 2023).