Associate Professor of Ecology and coordinator of PhD Programme in Innovative Technologies and Sustainable Use of Mediterranean Sea Fishery and Biological Resources (FishMed-PhD). I collaborate with leaders in different fields (chemistry, physics, and photobiology), developing multidisciplinary methodologies. I study marine biomineralization in relation to environmental parameters, with special reference to the effects of climate change on corals and coral reefs. With Zvy Dubinsky (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) and Giuseppe Falini (UNIBO), I conceived the ERC project "www.CoralWarm.eu". My traditional interests: population dynamics, reproductive biology, and environmental monitoring (Citizen Science).