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PAST LAB MEMBERS
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TIANTIAN ZHANG
Tiantian is a PhD student at Fudan University (China) and was a visiting PhD student in the lab. Her project focused on the temporal trends of expansion and effectiveness of global protected areas. She is also interested in transboundary conservation and the relationships between biodiversity conservation and traditional cultural diversity.
HUBERT CHEUNG
Hubert was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab, focusing on wildlife trade, conservation geopolitics, and inclusion in conservation and science. He used interdisciplinary methods to study the complex human dimensions of conservation. The aim of his Marie Curie project was to inform wildlife trade policy, help combat wildlife trafficking, and define frontiers in conservation geopolitics.
GABRIELE PIGNALBERI
Gabriele was an MSc student in Theoretical Physics. He worked on a thesis about applications of physics-inspired machine learning models to ecoepidemiology. He was also a Research Assistant in the lab, with a project on the identification of wild host species of zoonotic pathogens using a graph neural network approach.
GIACOMO MASIELLO
Giacomo was an MSc student in Ecobiology. The aim of his thesis project was to determine the factors that most influence mountain mammals occurrence and to evaluate the effect of livestock presence on their spatial distribution in two corridor areas of the Central Apennines.
STEFAN RODRIGO VON KEMPIS
Stefan was an MSc student in Ecobiology. The aim of his work was to assess the density of mountain mammals in two corridor areas of the Central Apennines and to evaluate how their movements are affected by human activities and livestock presence.
​JUAN PABLO RAMIREZ-DELGADO
Juan was a PhD student at University of Northern British Columbia (Canada), and worked on the impacts of human pressure on habitat fragmentation and its relation to species extinction risk.
VICTOR CAZALIS
Victor was a postdoc in the lab, part of the sRedList working group aiming at developing an innovative and consistent framework for prioritising updates of the IUCN Red List assessments.
NICCOLÒ CECI
Niccolò was a MsC student in the lab.The aim of his project was to estimate the density of mountain mammals in a corridor area of the Central Apennines and to evaluate how their movements are affected by human activities.
CHIARA GIORGIONE
Chiara was a MsC student in the lab. The aim of her work was to understand the effects of conflict and other socio-economic factors on the annual volume of wildlife traffic for nations.
SOFIA SILVESTRI
Sofia was a MSc student in the lab, aiming to investigate how generetion length of amphiobians affect their climatic risk.
ALESSANDRA BISSATTINI
Alessandra was a postdoc in the lab, aiming to investigate allometric relationships in herps to inform extinction risk assessments.
VALERIA Y. MENDEZ A.
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Valeria was a Research Assistant, former MSc student, at Sapienza University. She worked on the impact of climate change on terrestrial biomes and its implications for terrestrial mammals' conservation.
HERNÁN CÁCERES-ESCOBAR
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Hernán is a veterinarian and conservation scientist and was a Post-doc at Sapienza University of Rome. The aim of his project was to explore how anthropogenic-driven environmental change affects disease hazards to create future scenarios of risk under a One Health perspective.
ANDREA SACCHI
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Andrea was a MSc student and the aim of his project was to assess the impact of extreme climate events on Nature's Contributions to People (NCPs) and on species extinction risk under different climatic scenarios.
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ANDREA SESSA
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Andrea was a MSc student who worked on the change in the provision of Nature's Contributions to People (NCPs) under different climatic scenarios and alternative pathways of socio-economic development.
ETIENNE HENRY
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Etienne was a MSc student in the sRedList project based in iDiv Germany, where he developed and tested new models of extinction risk prediction based on Red List criteria.
PABLO M. LUCAS
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Pablo was a postdoc on a project funded by the Global Wildlife Conservation, in collboration with the sRedList working group, where he developed and tested new automatic approaches to assess the conservation status of species.
MARIA LUMBIERRES CIVIT
Maria was a PhD student at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), part of the European Training Network Inspire4Nature. The aim of her project was to identify new Key Biodiversity Areas using spatial prioritisation techniques.
THOMAS MERRIEN
Thomas did a MSc under the supervision of Rob Salguero-Gómez, Katrina Davis at Oxford University and Moreno Di Marco at Sapienza University. The aim of his project was to evaluate the impact of human settlements on the demographic signature and performance of plant and animal species, compared to their dynamics in pristine habitats, worldwide.