I am interested in studying the response of insect communities to natural and anthorpogenic stressors. My recent research activities focus on DNA metabarcoding as a tool to improve the taxonomic resolution at which insects are identified and to study intraspecific variation at the community level.

email: alex.laini@unito.it

My research interests include spatio-temporal statistics, functional data analysis and quantile regression (with a focus on environmental applications) and variance partitioning models in a Bayesian hierarchical framework.

email: maria.francovilloria@unimore.it 

My research activity, while covering a variety of organisms of agricultural and forestry interest, has been predominantly focused on issues related to ecology, morphology, systematics and evolution of dung beetles (Coleoptera Scarabaeoidea).

email: claudia.palestrini@unit.it 

My research interests include Bayesian hierarchical modelling (with applications in ecology and environmental epidemiology), Bayesian structured additive regression models (with a focus on priors for variance parameters) and spatial statistics (with a focus on penalized spline regression for spatial data).

email: massimo.ventrucci@unibo.it 

Research fellow with a degree in Environmental Biology from the University of Turin. Interested in wildlife ecology and how the dynamics between wildlife and the environment evolve due to climate change. Additionally, I have an interest towards data analysis, finding it rewarding to discover patterns/trends starting from raw data.

email: n.brunelli@unito.it