- Enrico Alleva
Enrico Alleva (born
16 August ,1953 in Rome, Italy) is an Italianethologist and broadcaster.After his degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Rome "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 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. Author of more than 200 international papers.
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.
External links
* [http://www.iss.it Istituto Superiore di Sanità]
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