Angelo Massacci BIRTHPLACE and Palombara Sabina (Roma)
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CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM NAME: Angelo Massacci BIRTHPLACE AND Palombara Sabina (Roma) 12 October, 1951 BIRTHDATE: CITIZIENSHIP: Italian ADDRESS: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Istituto di Biologia Agro-ambientale e Forestale (IBAF)/Institute of Agro-environment and Forest Biology, Area della Ricerca di Roma, Via Salaria Km 29,300 - 00015 Monterotondo Scalo (Roma) Tel. +39-06-90672537; Fax +39-06-9064492 email: [email protected] INTERESTS Plant ecophysiology: Photosynthesis and Environment, Phytoremediation: Plant mitigation of xenobiotic pollution. STUDIES 1977 - 78 Graduated in Chemistry, with biochemistry address, Rome University “La Sapienza”, CAREER 1982 - Researcher at CNR-Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Ecophysiology (IBEV), Rome Research Area, Monterotondo Scalo (Roma); 1999 - Senior Researcher at CNR-IBEV (now IBAF), 2012 - Acting Director Institute Agro-environment and Forest Biology (IBAF) in Porano (TR) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES 1988 - 2000 Component of the scientific committee at CNR- IBEV; 1999 - 2003 Member Management Committee Cost Action 837 “Plant biotechnology for removal of organic pollutants and toxic metals from wastewaters and contaminated sites” 2001 – 2009 Member of the Scientific Committee of IBAF; 2001 – 2009 Responsible of DTA research group on “Terrestrial Ecosystems and Pollutants: Ecological Restoration, Bioremediation and Biomitigation” TEACHING AND TRAINING University courses 2012 in the Teacher body of the XXVI cycle of the Doctorate course in Forest Ecology in the University “La Tuscia” Viterbo; 2007 - 09 Lectures and seminars on trees for remedying air, water and soil pollution at the International Course on Urban Forestry AY 2007-08 and 2008-09 at La Tuscia Uni Viterbo; 2011- VII Corso Intensivo di Alta Formazione per Dottorandi di Ricerca del Settore Forestale-Ambientale CSALP, Pieve Tesino (Trento). Supervising 1990 - present Supervisor of 10 graduated and doctorate experimental thesis on themes of plants and environment interactions. Training of researchers from the Indian Rubber Institute of Guwahati and from Argentinian Embassy on plants and environment. Examining board 1999 – present Member and President of Examining board in PhD thesis doctorate discussion at Biology Faculty of Barcelona University (Spain), of Dehli University, and of Gent University (Belgium); RESEARCH abroad 1983 – present France (1983), photosynthetic gas exchange studies a the Laboratoire du Phytotron. Gif sur Yvette (France); UK (1987), leaf fluorescence and gas exchange on water stress plants at the Institute of Horticultural Research. East Malling; Switzerland (1999), maize and low temperature stress in the field at the Institute of Plant Science of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich; Canada (1997), low temperature hardening of winter wheat at the Dept of Plant Science University of West Ontario, 1 London Canada; India (1989), sorghum leaf photosynthesis under high light and temperature at the Dept. of Botany, University of Jodhpur, India; Zimbabwe (1992, 1993, 1994), field photosynthesis and fluorescence on different sorghum genotypes under drought at the SADCC/ICRISAT, Matopos, Chiredzi; USA (1994), photosynthate partitioning and productivity of cowpea grown at high temperature at the Dept of Botany & Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside; Hungary (1992), maize growth at low temperature at the Agricultural Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Martonvásár; Uzbekistan (2006), cotton improvement for drought tolerance at the Inst of Genetics and Plant Experimental Biology of Tashkent; NEERI – Nagpur India, Phytoremediation of PCBs. Project leader Commissariato Emergenza Ambientale nel bacino del Fiume Sacco (2013); 1988 - present Fitorimedio di inquinanti organici “in situ”; PSR Umbria Fito-disidratazione di fanghi da reflui; CISA s.r.l Fitorimedio PCB e metalli pesanti; CNR Italy-CSIR- NEERI India: Bioremediation and Phytoremediation of PCBs; Alcantara SrL, Fito-trattamento percolato discariche; Min Amb, Phytoremediation multicontaminated site in the SIN Papigno ; ENI R&M: Phyto-stabilization and heavy metal phytoextraction in Porto Marghera (Venezia); EU INTAS Ubekistan/ Kazakistan: Adaptation and acclimation of the photosynthetic apparatus of crop plants to drought stress; MIUR: Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN). Trees and forest plantation for environmental restoration: physiological and molecular mechanisms in the selection of Salicaceae for the remediation of heavy metals; MIRAAF, Prog Biotecnologie Vegetali, Aspetti biochimico-molecolari e fisiologici della fotoprotezione di piante esposte a basse temperature; EU APAS (Zimbabwe), contract RENA CT94-0040, Production of Electricity and Biofuels through the Integration of Sweet Sorghum into the Sugar Industry in Developing Countries; EU AIR in Water Stress Limitation to photosynthetic productivity by high light stress occurring simultaneously with water deficit or water temperatures; MAF, Programma Nazionale su “Resistenze genetiche agli stress biotici e abiotici” UO on “Meccanismi di fotoprotezione a bassa temperature su piante C4”;Programma Finalizzato CNR RAISA: Incidenza di Inquinanti Fotochimici su Attivita' Fisiologiche di Specie Agrarie; EU STD2 (UK, Italy, India): Methodologies to Assess the Impact of Environmental Stress on Crop Productivity in Arid Zones; Project and Projects from Czech Science Foundation, National Research Projects (PRIN, Paper reviewer COFIN MIUR, UE DGXII STD, National Science Foundation of Washington, 1988. 1987 – present Papers from almost all Journals in Plant science. Editorial activities Co-author of the book “Le Piante che Depurano l’Acqua” in press by il Campo, (BO); 1990 –present Guest editor of the Special Issues in “Tree Physiology” and “Biomass & Bioenergy Journals on “Poplars and biomass for energy”; Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the “Environmental and Experimental Botany” (EEB) and of JAA; WORKSHOPS, Co-organizer of the Working Party Workshop of the International Poplar CONFERENCES, Commission, FAO, Environmental Applications of Poplar and Willow, 2010, Rome; MEETINGS of EU International interCOST Meeting on Phytoremediation, Sorrento 2000; 1992 – present Co-chair of EU funded International Workshop on "Ecophysiological techniques for crop improvement under semi-arid conditions" Rome 1992; Chair of National Meeting on "Plants under Environmental Stress" Rome; Invited speaker on Phytoremediation in many National and International Meetings; SCIENTIFIC Author of more than 100 publications, most of them as corresponding, first or PRODUCTION senior author, and many of co-authored with qualified foreign scientists in its field. (extended CV in www.ibaf.cnr.it). I authorize treatment of my data according to D. lgs. 196 del 30 Giugno 2007. Rome 2013 Angelo Massacci 2 .