Prof. Simon Pierce

Simon Pierce, Associate Professor of Environmental and Applied Botany, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Milan, Italy. Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc, Hons.) in Plant Biology, University of Wales, Bangor, UK (June 1995), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) University of Durham, UK (July 1999), 1999–2001 Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, UK and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Republic of Panama. 2001–2003 Research fellowship, University of Sheffield, UK and Sustainable Agriculture Group, Natural Resources Institute (NRI), UK. 2003–2011 Research fellowships, University of Insubria at Varese, Italy. 2011–present Tenure track (tenure gained 10/02/2015), University of Milan, Italy Research interests: organism functioning and survival strategies, eco-evolutionary dynamics, functional traits, community ecology, rare plant reproductive ecology and conservation