Team leader of the Animal Ecology research group

Annapaola Rizzoli

ANNAPAOLA RIZZOLI - She is a wildlife veterinarian and her major scientific interest and expertise is in the field of parasitology, wildlife diseases ecology, epidemiology and risk assessment of emerging vector-borne and zoonotic diseases associated with climate change and biodiversity loss. She started her career working as researcher and project manager first for the natural park Adamello Brenta in the province of Trento (IT), than for the Centre of Alpine Ecology and most recently for the Edmund Mach Foundation, both research institutions of the Autonomous Province of Trento. She worked in this field integrating her education in veterinary medicine with courses and training in other disciplines, especially biology, ecology, epidemiology, spatial and mathematical modelling ... (more info on her personal page).