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Cristina Giacoma
Summary
Academic positions:
2000 - Full Professor of Zoology
2015- up to date Director of the Department
She coordinates the research program of Torino University with:
1) the Madagascar Universites of Antananarivo, Tamatave e Mahajanga
2) University of Comoros
3) Fangjinshan National Nature Reserve (China)
4) EPRC - Endangered Primate Rescue Center - Vietnam
Research:
Main scientific interests are the evolution of reproductive behaviour and bioacoustics. She worked on Conservation biology of Amphibians, Reptiles, Cetaceans and Primates. She founded the field station of Maromizaha in Madagascar and run many projects in Madagascar starting from 2002. She coordinates an EU project on Food safety with the aim of establishing a PhD program between Universities of the Indian Ocean and the University of Torino. She published more than 150 full papers in scientific journals with peer referees,
see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cristina_Giacoma.
Coordinator of the following projects:
2 INTAS projects on conservation of the former Soviet Union Herpetofauna biodiversity.
3 European projects LIFE project on Conservation of Caretta caretta and cetaceans in the Mediterranean sea, LIFE-NATURA 1999 NAT/IT/006271, LIFE03 NAT/IT/000163, LIFE04 NAT/IT/000187 and on amphibians LIFE00 NAT/IT/007233.
3 European projects on biodiversity conservation in Madagascar, see the Maromizaha Polyvalent Research Centre of the Reserve www.mad.unito.it.