Marta Debolini

I am a geo-agronomist mainly working on agricultural and farming system dynamics, land use modeling and landscape and environmental agronomy. I received my PhD from the Institute of Life Sciences - Sant’Anna School of advanced Studies in Pisa (Italy) on December 2010 with a thesis on “Agriculture dynamics and soil conservation issues on Mediterranean rural landscapes”. After my PhD I keep working at the Institute of Life Science as a post-doc and on 2011 I received the 2011-2012 Research Award sponsored by the Global Fund for Environment and Conflict Resolution for the project "Land management and land use conflict resolution in peri-urban areas: a geo-agronomic perspective" at the Columbia University (NY). Since November 2012 I am a permanent researcher at the INRAE, in Avignon, research unit EMMAH (Mediterranean environment and Simulation Modelling (ABM/Predictive/Economic modelling) of agro-hydrosystems). I co-authored more than 20 papers in international peer reviewed journals and I presented my work in more than 20 international conferences. I tutored around 15 graduate and undergraduate students for their final dissertation and co-tutored two PhD students and four post-docs. I worked on several international research project, and I coordinate the Arimnet2-DIVERCROP project on "Land system dynamics in the Mediterranean basin across scales as relevant indicator for species diversity and local food systems".