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I work in evolutionary behavioural ecology. I am interested in interactions among organisms and how interactions balance between cooperation and conflict. I ask this questions working at the organismic level and using mainly two model systems, social insects and hermaphroditic polychaetes.
In social insects, I work primarily on coevolution between host social wasps and their obligate social parasites, which are wasps as well. Coevolution is a key issue for understanding how natural selection operates on behaviour and on communication between the two counterparts.
Interactions between organisms is also the main question I pose when working with hermaphrodites, where I am interested in understanding the nature and the strength of selective pressures which regulate cooperation (reciprocation) and conflicts over sexual roles, favour flexible sex allocation, and eventually drive the transition between hermaphroditism and separate sexes. |
Curriculum vitae |
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| 1982 |
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Master degree in Natural Sciences (“Laurea”), University of Firenze, Italy. |
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| 1987 |
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PhD, University of Firenze, Pisa, Parma (Italy). |
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| 1990-2000 |
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Researcher, University of Turin, School of Veterinary (Italy). |
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| 2000-2011 |
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Researcher, University of Turin, School of Biology (Italy). |
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| 2011-2014 |
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Associate Professor, University of Turin, School of Biology (Italy). |
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| since 2015 |
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Full Professor, Laboratoire d’Ethologie Expérimentale et Comparée, Université Paris 13 (France). |
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| since 2017 |
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Responsible for the Master in Ethology. |
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