Enrico Alleva
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ethologist and broadcaster
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. President of the S.I.E. (the Italian Society for the Study of Animal Behavior) since 2008.
After his degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Rome
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"La Sapienza" (1975) with geneticist Giuseppe Montalenti, Alleva specialized in animal behaviour at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (tutored by Floriano Papi).
Member of the scientific councils of Anpa, WWF, Legambiente, Stazione zoologica of Naples, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana “Giovanni Treccani”, Agenzia Spaziale, CNR Department "Scienze della vita", Commissione Antartide. He is a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei
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and of the Medical Academy of Rome. He was awarded the "G. B. Grassi" prize of the Accademia dei Lincei and the Anokin Medal of the Russian Accedemy of Medical Sciences.
Since 1990 he is the Director of the Section of Behavioural Neurosciences of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome (the Italian National Institute of Health). Author of more than 200 international papers. Member of the Comitato Direttivo of the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana “Giovanni Treccani” (encyclopaedic dictionary) since 2010.
He is a well known scientific populariser and, among his book, he has written Il tacchino termostatico (Theoria, 1990), Consigli a un giovane etologo (Theoria, 1994), with Nicoletta Tiliacos, and La mente animale (Einaudi, 2008) and is often invited to radio and television shows.
A more extended CV is available at http://www.iss.it/site/attivita/ISSWEB_istituto/RicercaPersonale/dettaglio.asp?idAna=624&lang=1.