Gianluigi Bacchetta

Degree in Life Sciences at the University of Cagliari (Italy) in 1996.Master in ?Landscape Planning? at the University of Cagliari (Italy) in 1997.Master in ?Vegetation Analysis: survey and data elaboration on flora, vegetation and soil? at the University of Ancona (Italy) in 2000.PhD in Geomorphology and Geobotany at the University of Ancona (Italy) finished in December 2000. European PhD in Plant Biology (025 C) at the University of Valencia (Spain), suficiencia investigadora obteined in November 2002.Lecturer at the Marche Polytechnic University from 2000 to 2002.Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Science of the University of Cagliari (Italy) from 2002 to 2006.Associate Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences at University of Cagliari (Italy) from 2006 to 2015.He is currently full professor at the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences of the University of Cagliari (http://dipartimenti.unica.it/scienzedellavitaedellambiente/) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Tehran.Director of the HBK (Hortus Botanicus Karalitanus) of the University of Cagliari (http://sites.unica.it/hbk/).Deputy director of the Doctorate program in Earth and Environmental Sciences and Technologies of the University of Cagliari (http://dottorati.unica.it/stta/).Since 1991 he has been working on geobotanical and conservation biology studies of the Mediterranean biota and on plant diversity of islands concerning phytoclimatology and phytogeography as well.He has published about 500 scientific papers, most of these in international journals. Total number of citations and general bibliometric indicators of whole publication record (as of 31 January 2020):ISI WOS: 190 papers, 2275 citations, H-index: 25Scopus: 287 papers, 3227 citations, H-index: 29ResearchGate: 490 research items, 4447 citations, H-index: 35Google: 608 research items, 6828 citations, H-index: 37He has collaborated with Italian and international editors on 21 scientific books.He serves as a peer reviewer for both national and international journals in the field of biodiversity conservation. He is editor of Plant Biosystems (https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tplb20/current) and Plant Sociology (http://plantsociology.scienzadellavegetazione.it/ojs/index.php/ps/index), associate editor of Mediterranean Botany (https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/MBOT) and member of the Documents Phytosociologiques editorial board.From February 1997 to 2002 he was a member of the executive council of the Sardinian Section of the Italian Botanical Society (SBI) as a counselor and responsible for the ?Commission for the Sardinian flora protection?. In November 2002 he was elected as secretary in the executive council and president of the Sardinian Section of the SBI from 2006 to 2008. In 2009 he has been elected member of the executive council of the Italian Association for vegetation Science (SISV). From 2003 to 2016 he was director of the Conservation Centre of Biodiversity (CCB) of the University of Cagliari (http://www.ccb-sardegna.it/index.html).Actually he is president of the GENMEDA network (http://www.genmeda.net/), deputy president of the scientific council of Conservatoire Botanique National Corse (http://cbnc.oec.fr/) and member of the scientific council of Conservatoire Botanique National Méditerranéenne (http://www.cbnmed.fr/src/prez.php).Also, he is principal investigator of various international projects (LIFE+, Interreg, ENPI, ENI, Erasmus+) financed by the European Union.