Grants
2026 — Joint research project Italy-China, National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC, PNRR MUR): “Assessing amphibian functional resilience to climate change (AMPHIClim)”
2025 — Progetto Grandi Scavi 2025, Sapienza University of Rome: “The Archaeological Mission in the Sahara. Environment and Societies in prehistoric Chad”
2025 — Fondi di Ateneo 2024 (progetti medi), Sapienza University of Rome: “Bat diversity in Rome: exploring the role of green areas configuration and human disturbance”
2024 — Fondi di Ateneo 2023 (progetti grandi), Sapienza University of Rome: “Analysing the impact of global change on European insects through the lens of macroecology”
2023 — PRIN 2023, MUR: “UrBiS — Biogeography of urban green spaces: direct and indirect drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem services in Rome”
2023 — CESAB Project: “IMPACTS: French biodiversity in the Anthropocene — impacts and drivers of spatial and temporal response”
2023 — Fondi di Ateneo 2022, Sapienza University of Rome: “Identifying synergies between human drivers of biodiversity loss”
2022 — Horizon Europe 2021-2022: “NaturaConnect — Designing a resilient and coherent trans-European Network for Nature and People”
2022 — Fondi di Ateneo 2021, Sapienza University of Rome: “ClimExp: Assessing species’ exposure to climate change to support extinction risk assessments for the IUCN Red List”
2021 — Sapienza University of Rome internal grant: “Bridging the gap: connecting people to conservation biology — launch event of the Italian Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology”
2020 — Global Wildlife Conservation: “Testing automated approaches to prioritise IUCN Red List reassessments”
2020 — sRedList: “Accelerating IUCN Red List assessments for rapid and effective biodiversity monitoring”
2017 — Veni grant, NWO (The Netherlands). Project 016.Veni.181.031: “The role of Megafauna in shaping ecosystems: insights into rewilding”
2017 — PBL grant, Project 31129795: “Habitat suitability modelling for amphibians at the global scale”
2015 — Fondi di avvio alla ricerca 2014, Sapienza University of Rome: “Hotspots of mammal species at risk from climate change: the role of life history traits and external pressure”
2014 — Fondi di avvio alla ricerca 2014, Sapienza University of Rome: “Connectivity of the global network of protected areas for terrestrial mammals”
Awards
2016 — Daikin Award for the best PhD thesis in Conservation Biology
2015 — Brusarosco Award for best project of young researcher, supporting 5 months of research at Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine, Grenoble, under the supervision of Dr. Wilfried Thuiller
2013 — ATIT Best Paper Award. Santini et al. 2013. Ecological correlates of dispersal distance in terrestrial mammals. It J Mamm 24(2)
2011 — API Award for best oral presentation
