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Personal information

First name / Surname Simone Cerroni

Nationality Italian

Desired employment / Environmental and agricultural economics; Decision making under risk and Occupational field uncertainty

Work experience

Dates 06/2012 – now Occupation or position held Research Fellow Main activities and responsibilities Producers, processors, and retailers’ preferences for new food technologies which aims to reduce environmental and health risks. Stated choice experiments and experimental coordination games. Name and address of employer Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen – Greenburn Road, AB21 9SB, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom Type of business or sector Stated choice field and lab experiments

Dates 05/2012 – 06/2012 Occupation or position held Postdoctoral Research Fellow Main activities and responsibilities Consumers’ food choices under risk and uncertainty. Explore standard and non-standard theories of decision making under risk and uncertainty. Discrete choice modelling. Name and address of employer Departments of Economics, University of Trento – Via Inama 5, 38122, Trento, Italy. Type of business or sector Discrete choice modelling under risk and uncertainty

Dates 02/2012 – 8/2012 Occupation or position held Research Assistant Main activities and responsibilities Scientific support in the research project Envirochange which investigates perceptions of climate change impacts on agriculture and related choice-behaviours of both consumers and producers in the Province of Trento (Italy): survey design, data collection, dataset creation, econometric elaboration, and output reporting. Name and address of employer Departments of Economics, University of Trento – Via Inama 5, 38122, Trento, Italy. Type of business or sector Risk elicitation in the lab

Dates 04/2011 – 04/2012 Occupation or position held Research Fellow Main activities and responsibilities Economic assessment of the impacts of eni’s oil and gas business on biodiversity and ecosystem services in Basilicata (Italy) by using the Corporate Ecosystem Valuation approach. Name and address of employer Fondazione eni Enrico Mattei – Corso Magenta 63, 20123, Milano Type of business or sector The economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services

Dates 02/2008 – 05/2008 Occupation or position held Research Assistant Main activities and responsibilities Economic valuation of the visual impact caused by wind farm by using Contingent Valuation. Page 1/4 - Curriculum vitae of For more information on Europass go to http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu Cerroni SImone © European Communities, 2003 20060628

Name and address of employer University of Tuscia – Department of Ecology and Sustainable Economic Development (DECOS), Via S. Giovanni Decollato 1, 01100, Viterbo Type of business or sector Stated preference and environmental economics

Internships

Dates 02/2010 – 06/2010 Occupation or position held Internship Main activities and responsibilities Elicitation of environmental risks in a lab setting using the Exchangeability Method. Name and address of employer Texas A&M University (TAMU) – Department of Agricultural Economics, 332 Blocker Building – 2124 TAMU, TX 77843-2124, College Station (TX), United States Type of business or sector Risk elicitation

Dates 05/2008 – 09/2008 Occupation or position held Internship - Life Learning Programme (Erasmus Placement) Main activities and responsibilities Economic valuation of the visual impact caused by wind farm by using Choice Experiment. Name and address of employer Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) – Dept. of Economics and Resource Management (IØR), P.O. Box 5003, NO-1432, Aas Norway

Type of business or sector Stated preference and environmental economics

Education

Dates 09/2008 – 04/2013 Title of qualification awarded Ph.D. in Economics and Management Principal subjects/occupational skills Subjective Probabilities in Choice Experiments' Design: Three Essays. covered Name and type of organisation University of Trento, Interdepartmental Centre for Research Training in Economics and Management providing education and training (CIFREM), via Rosmini 70, 38122, Trento, Italy. Level in national or international Ph.D. classification

Dates 09/2008 – 09/2009 Title of qualification awarded Certificate of Advanced Studies in Economics and Management Principal subjects/occupational skills Micro-economics, Statistics, Behavioural Economics, Game Theory, Experimental Economics, covered Introductory Econometrics, Advanced Econometrics, Organization Theory, and Environmental Economics. Name and type of organisation University of Trento, Interdepartmental Centre for Research Training in Economics and Management providing education and training (CIFREM), via Rosmini 70, 38122, Trento, Italy. Level in national or international Certificate of Advanced Studies classification

Dates 10/2004 – 10/2007 Title of qualification awarded Master of Conservation and Restoration of Forestry Environment and Defence of the soil (Italian Class 74/S) Principal subjects/occupational skills Thesis Title: Analisi dell’efficienza e dell’impatto visivo degli impianti eolici - Efficiency and visual covered impact analysis of wind farms Name and type of organisation University of Tuscia – Department of Ecology and Sustainable Economic Development (DECOS), Via providing education and training S. Giovanni Decollato 1, 01100, Viterbo Level in national or international M.Sc. classification

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Dates 10/2000 – 10/2004 Title of qualification awarded Bachelor of Forestry and Environmental Sciences (Italian Class 20) Principal subjects/occupational skills Thesis Title: Il Mal dell’Inchiostro su castagno nella Provincia di Rieti: una proposta di gestione delle covered acque per ridurre la diffusione delle malattia - Ink disease on chestnut in the Province of Rieti: a water management proposal in order to fight the spread of the infestation. Name and type of organisation University of Tuscia – Department of Ecology and Sustainable Economic Development (DECOS), Via providing education and training S. Giovanni Decollato 1, 01100, Viterbo Level in national or international B.Sc. classification

Training International Summer School in Experimental Auctions: Theory and Applications in Marketing and Consumer Preferences Analysis. University of Bologna, July 4th -12th, 2011. Summer School in Advances in Viticulture and Enology: Experimental Design for Stated Choice and Advanced Modeling of Choice Data 2010. University of Padua, September 27th – October 1st , 2011. Cost E45 (Euroforex) Training course on Choice Modelling, Vila Real, Portugal, September 2sd – 6th, 2009. International Summer School 2009: "Discrete Choice Models - Theory and Applications to Environment, Landscape, Transportation and Marketing". University of Bologna, June 22th – 26th,

2009.

Personal skills and competences Attended courses

Mother tongue(s) Italian

Other language(s) English - TOEFL score of 92.

Computer skills and Office Package, Adobe Photoshop, Qualtrics, Stata, R, Nlogit, Biogeme, Mathematica and Ngene. competences

Conferences and Oral presentation “Do monetary incentives and chained questions affect the validity of risk estimates Workshops elicited via the Exchangeability Method? An experimental investigation” at the International Association of Agricultural Economists 2012 Conference (IAAE). August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. Oral presentation: “Do consumers provide valid risk estimates of pesticide residue in apples? An experimental investigation of the Exchangeability Method in the lab” at the 19th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). June 27-30, 2012, Charles University Environment Center and the University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic. Oral presentation: “The validity of risk estimates elicited via the Exchangeability Method: An experimental investigation of consumers’ perceived health risks” at the 1st AIEAA Conference ‘Towards a Sustainable Bio-economy: Economic Issues and Policy Challenges’. June 4-5, 2012, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. Oral presentation “The validity of subjective risk estimates elicited via exchangeability method: an experimental investigation of residue perceptions on apples” at the EAAE PhD Workshop in Economics and Social Science Research in Food, Agriculture, Environment and Development. April 27-29, 2011, Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovakia. Oral presentation: “The Role of Climate Change in shaping elicited environmental risks. An application of Exchangeability Method” at the International Research Workshop in Risk Elicitation and Stated Preference Methods for Climate Change Research. October 21-22, 2010, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. Oral presentation: “Do sources of environmental impacts affect elicited environmental risks? An experimental investigation and application of the exchangeability method. ” at the III Workshop in Valuation Methods in Agro-food and Environmental Economics – Decision and Choices under Uncertainty in Agro-food and Natural Resource Economics. July 1-2, 2010, Escola Superior

d’Agricultura de Barcelona (ESAB), at the Politechnic University of Catalonia, Castelldefels, Spain.

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Publications Simone Cerroni, Lorenzo Venzi, 2013. Rural communities and wind farms: A contingent valuation investigation. Rivista di Economia Agraria (forthcoming). Simone Cerroni, Sandra Notaro and W. Douglass Shaw, 2013. How many bad apples are in a bunch? An experimental investigation of perceived pesticide residue risks. Food Policy 41, 112– 123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2013.04.012 Simone Cerroni, Sandra Notaro and W. Douglass Shaw, 2012. Eliciting and estimating valid subjective probabilities: An experimental investigation of the Exchangeability Method. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84, 201– 215 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2012.08.001 Simone Cerroni, 2012. How Do Lay People Perceive Climate-Change Related Risks? Review of Environment Energy and Economics, http://www.feem.it/getpage.aspx?id=4561 Simone Cerroni and W. Douglass Shaw, 2012. Does climate change information affect stated risks of pine beetle impacts on forests? An application of the exchangeability method. Forest Policy and Economics, 22, 72–84 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2012.04.001 Simone Cerroni and L. Venzi, 2008. Confronto tra diverse localizzazioni di un impianto eolico

contemperando produttività ed impatto visivo. Aestimum 53, 1-24.

Referees W. Douglass Shaw, PhD Department of Agricultural Economics and Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-2124, USA Telephone: (979) 845-3555 Fax: (979) 862-1563 Email: [email protected] Anne Ludbrook, Ph.D Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, Polwarth Building, Foresterhill, AB25 2ZD, Scotland, United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0)1224 437168 Fax: +44 (0)1224 437195 Email: [email protected] Sandra Notaro, Ph.D. Department of Economics, University of Trento Trento, Via Inama 5, 38122, Italy Telephone: +39 0461 282158 Fax: +39 0461 282899 Email: [email protected]

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