MARCHESINI ALEXIS

I graduated in Forest and Environmental Sciences and in 2017 I obtained a PhD in Crop Sciences at the University of Padua, in collaboration with Fondazione Edmund Mach (S.Michele all’Adige, Trento).
My research interests embrace different areas of environmental and agricultural sciences, with the ecosystem and evolutionary perspectives as a common denominator. This allowed me to build a multidisciplinary background, which includes the study of biological diversity at gene, community and ecosystem level, as well as the analysis of interactions between organisms and their environment, with the ultimate goal of the conservation of natural ecosystems and sustainable use of natural resources.
My expertise includes phylogeography, population and landscape genetics, genomics and bioinformatics, as well as eDNA metabarcoding, spatial and community ecology.
During my career, I worked at Fondazione Edmund Mach (Trento), where I carried out both conservation genetics and eDNA metabarcoding projects, and at CNR – IPSP (Sesto F., FI), where I was involved in genomics analysis of forest trees. Moreover, I visited different research institutions abroad (e.g., Univ. Grenoble Alpes– CNRS, LECA; Univ. Göttingen, Department of Wildlife Sciences; Univ. Bordeaux – INRA, BIOGECO) and took part to international initiatives such as the G-BIKE (Genomic Biodiversity Knowledge for Resilient Ecosystems) consortium. In the last three years, I focused mainly on the study of genome-wide genetic diversity by means of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, sharpening my skills in bioinformatics pipelines for the processing of genomic “big data”.
Currently, I’m involved in the study of genomic diversity in Mediterranean endemic trees and other forest species, in the framework of the National Biodiversity Future Centre (NBFC).