PERSONAL DATA: Born in Florence on 12.4. 1950 Degree courses: Doctor of Biological Sciences, University of Florence. PhD.in Biol.Animal ACADEMIC CURRICULUM QUALIFICATION: Ordinary Professor of Zoology at Univ.di Firenze. DIDACTIC ACTIVITIES: Zoology, Sociobiology and Special Entomology Courses. Coordinator of the PhD in Biology SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY: 1) Research on the evolution of social behavior and social parasitism in insects, 2) research on chemical communication in social insects. 3) research on the composition and function of the venom of social hymns; 4) Research on morphology and function of the insect exocrine glands; 5) research on nest architecture in social wasps; 6) Sociobiological and systematic studies on tropical social wasps. Author of over 200 publications in international scientific journals on topics related to social insects and chemical communication in insects. President of the Mass Spectrometry Center at the University of Florence from 1999 to 2008. RECOGNITION: Ordinary member of the Italian National Academy of Entomology since February 2000 Correspondent Member of the National Academy of Lynches since November 2002 FINANCIAL SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS IN THE LAST 15 YEARS: 1996. PRIN "Animal Behavior". Head of Operational Unit "Behavior and Chemical Communication in Social Wasps". 1997. PRIN "Social organization and time span of behavior". Head of Operational Unit "Evolution of Social Behavior and Chemical Communication in Wasps". 1998. PRIN "Mechanisms for the acquisition and use of environmental information in animals". Head of the Operational Unit "Chemical Communication in Insect Society and Social Information as Governance of Behavior in Superior Vertebrates". 2001. PRIN National Coordinator "Animal Communication: Integrated Study on Chemical Communication in Social Insects". 1996-2000 EU TMR Network "Social Evolution" of the European Union. Group Leader of the Unity of Florence. 1997-1999 Local Unit Coordinator in the National Project AMA (Ape, Honey, Environment). 2001-2004 EU TMR Network "INSECTS" of the European Union. Group Leader of the Unity of Florence. 2006-2008 National PRIN Coordinator "Identification and Analysis of Protein Expression Involved in Chemical Communication in Three Insect Models Using Innovative Mass Spectrometry Techniques." 2008-2012 National PRIN Coordinator "Varroa destructor parasite effects on the chemical ecology and social behavior of Apis mellifera"

Zoology, Sociobiology, Special Entomology, Evolutionary Biology