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EMILIO PADOA-SCHIOPPA

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Emilio Padoa-Schioppa

PhD in Natural and Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor of Ecology, at the Department of Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca. Habilitation as full professor on 28/11/2017.

He teaches Landscape Ecology (master's degree course in Science and Technology for the Environment and Territory); Planetary Boundaries as a basis for sustainability concepts, module Managing Impact on the Environment (master’s degree course in Economics and Technologies for Sustainability), Biology: fundamentals and teaching with laboratory, Didactics of Biology (Primary Education Sciences), Introduction to sustainability, Advanced Human Ecology -Sustainability through lens of historical sciences, Ecosystem Services (courses of the Doctoral School and the PhD course in Chemical, Geological and Terrestrial and Marine Environmental Sciences). From 2017 to 2020 deputy coordinator of the PhD in Chemical, Geological and Terrestrial and Marine Environmental Sciences. He chairs the Department's third mission and public engagement commission. In November 2023 he was appointed director of the course for teacher qualification. Class A28 (Mathematics and science for lower secondary school). In October 2025 he was also appointed as deputy president of degree course in Economics and Technologies for Sustainability.

The books published were: Metodi e strumenti per l'insegnamento e l'apprendimento della Biologia (Edises, 2014); Antropocene. Una nuova epoca per la Terra, una sfida per l'umanità (il Mulino, 2021); Storia ecologica dell'Europa. Un continente nell'Antropocene (il Mulino, 2023). All the books are published in Italian

Active in various scientific societies (IALE, IALE-Europe, SIEP IALE, Conservation Biology, Society Human Ecology, Societas Herpetologica Italica, Italian Society of Ecology), also holding managerial or executive roles. At the moment he is president of SIEP-IALE (Italian Society of Landscape Ecology). In 2019 he organized the 10th IALE world congress (Milan, July 2019), editor of several scientific journals (Sustainability, Geographies, Environmental Sustainability Indicators, Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens).