Roberto Carlucci is Associate Professor in Ecology in the Department of Biology, University of Bari. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and his main research interests have been focused on the application of biological, statistical, and mathematical models to marine ecology, population dynamics and fishery stock assessment. He was member of the Necton and Fisheries Steering Committee of the Italian Society of Marine Biology, he long attended the Working Group on Fishery Stock Assessment of Demersal Species in the framework of the FAO General Fishery Commission for the Mediterranean and he is member of the CIESM Task Force on Sharks and Rays. He is also the scientific responsible of the Jonian Dolphin Conservation. He has (co)-authored more than 130 scientific publications in congress proceedings, national and inter-national ISI journals and he is a reviewer for Italian and international ISI journals.