Team

Chairman

is Chairman of COISPA. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the field of fishery and aquaculture. He is involved in the EU Data Collection Framework since 2002. He has participated and/or coordinated several EU and national research projects and he is the author/co-author of more than 50 scientific publications. During his career, he has been member of Scientific Committees and working groups of several organization including the Italian Ministry of Agriculture and the European Commission (DGMare and DGAgri). He is currently the chair of the Expert Group for Technical advice on the Organic Production (EGTOP) of the European Commission.

Research director

she is research director at COISPA. She has more than 25 years’ experience in the field of fish population dynamics, stock assessment, fishery management, telemetry and spatial distribution/dynamics, fish behaviour and fish welfare. She has participated to the Activities of SAC-FAO (Scientific Advisory Committee-SAC, GFCM) since 2000 and to the sessions of STECF-SGMED-EWG since 2008. She is involved in the EU Data Collection Framework program since 2002. She acted as coordinator of several European and national programs in the field of fishery and aquaculture. She is the author/co-author of more than 50 scientific publications.

Researcher

senior researcher at COISPA since 1994. He has a PhD in Sciences and Technologies applied to the Environment. Fisheries scientist with 22 years of experience in fishery biology and aquaculture. He has a long experience on age reading and validation (otoliths, spines, vertebrae etc.), analysis of sex and maturity stage in fish, crustacean and cephalopods. He is involved in the EU Data Collection Framework since 2002, coordinating trawl surveys, discard and landing sampling projects. He is responsible of the Experimental Aquaculture Laboratory (EAL) and the Energetic Metabolism and Telemetry Laboratory (EMTEL). He is the author/co-author of more than 50 scientific publications.

Researcher

Researcher at COISPA since 2008. She has a PhD in Mediterranean Agronomics. She is involved in the EU Data Collection Framework since the beginning of her activity at COISPA and is responsible of the database and data validation for the metier-related and stock-related variables, research surveys at sea and effects of the fishing activities on the marine ecosystem. She is also involved in laboratory analysis of the biological samplings and fish ageing. She has contributed to the development of the FishTrawl platform for the archive, processing, analysis and elaboration of trawl survey data. She works with routines and scripts in R environment.

Researcher

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Researcher

She has a permanent position as researcher at COISPA since 2009. She has a University degree in applied mathematics on stochastic discrete time models. She has participated in the development of fish population models and modelling using GLM, GAM, GAMM, data analysis and checking routines. She is involved in the EU Data Collection Framework program since 2009 and has participated to the STECF-SGMED-EWG working groups since 2010 to date. Good skill in programming and using several stock assessment models, highly structured and data limited, including methods for Management Strategy Evaluation. She also work with preference modelling (e.g. Multi Criteria Decision Analysis – MCDA). She is a developer of several routines in R for data check and elaboration. She is the developer of the bio-economic BEMTOOL model.

Researcher

She has a permanent position as researcher at COISPA since 2015. PhD in Fishery and aquaculture science. She is co-responsible of the Laboratory of Ichthyology and Marine Ecology (LIME). She is involved in studies on growth, fish condition, reproduction, life cycles and trophic ecology of various species of the main taxonomic groups. Biological and biochemical assays.

Researcher

She has a permanent position as researcher at COISPA since 2008. University Degree in Natural science. She is co-responsible of the Laboratory of Ichthyology and Marine Ecology (LIME). She is involved in studies on growth, fish condition, reproduction, life cycles and trophic ecology of various species of the main taxonomic groups. Biological and biochemical assays.

Researcher

Researcher at COISPA since 2019. He has PhD of Ecology and biodiversity. His research interests are fish personality and physiological and behavioral adaptive responses, as well as life history traits (survival, growth, reproduction) resulting from stress factors exposure (acute or chronic). Expertize in measuring fish behavior (swimming activity, thigmotaxis, group cohesion and feeding behavior). He is involved in the activities of the Experimental Aquaculture Laboratory (EAL). Good skills in welfare assessment, molecular biology and statistical analysis (e.g. ANOVA and PCA).

Associate researcher

Researcher at COISPA since 2019. BsC in Natural Sciences and MRes in Marine Biology, Giovanni has studied the interactions between ecological dynamics and natural and anthropogenic pressures. He has experience with population dynamics and bioeconomics modelling, as well as ecosystem modelling (Ecopath with Ecosim). He participated to parameterisation of spatial-temporal explicit ecosystem models (Ecospace) for application to ecological questions and Marine Spatial Planning activities.

Technician

He has a permanent position as technician at COISPA since 2010. He has a good skill in fish ageing. He is involved in laboratory analysis of the biological samplings. He has participated to several research trawl surveys at sea, to survey of commercial fishery with samplings of discard and landing as on-board and at landing site observer.

Technician

He has a permanent position as technician at COISPA since 2017. He is involved in laboratory analysis of the biological samplings. He has participated to several research trawl surveys at sea, to survey of commercial fishery with samplings of discard and landing as on-board and at landing site observer.

technician

He has a permanent position as technician at COISPA since 2017. He is involved in laboratory analysis of the biological samplings. He has participated to several research trawl surveys at sea, to survey of commercial fishery with samplings of discard and landing as on-board and at landing site observer.

Technician

He has a permanent position as technician at COISPA since 2014. He is involved in laboratory analysis of the biological samplings. He has participated to several research trawl surveys at sea, to survey of commercial fishery with samplings of discard and landing as on-board and at landing site observer.

Technician

He has a permanent position as technician at COISPA since 1994. He is involved in the activities of the Experimental Aquaculture Laboratory (EAL) and the Energetic Metabolism and Telemetry Laboratory (EMTEL). He has participated to several research trawl surveys at sea, to survey of commercial fishery with samplings of discard and landing as on-board and at landing site observer.

Technician

He has a permanent position as technician at COISPA since 2011. He is involved in the activities of the Experimental Aquaculture Laboratory (EAL) and the Energetic Metabolism and Telemetry Laboratory (EMTEL). He has participated to several research trawl surveys at sea, to survey of commercial fishery with samplings of discard and landing as on-board and at landing site observer.

Administrative officer

She has a permanent position as an administrative officer at COISPA since 2018. She has a degree in Economics. She deals with the drafting of the budget and the financial reporting of ministerial and European projects.