I am a conservation biologist interested in conservation genetics. My academic education has covered various fields, from Marine Biology (BSc in Applied Bioecology, 2006, University of Cagliari, Italy), Biological Anthropology (MSc in Human Biology, 2011, University of Cagliari, Italy) and Nature Conservation (MSc Conservation, 2014, University College London, UK), besides relevant working experiences in several biological and chemical laboratories. I joined the Wildlife Institute in September 2015, after having partaken in conservation projects on the red collared brown lemur, Eulemur collaris (with Oxford Brookes University) and on the Chinese alligator, Alligator sinensis (with Anhui Normal University). My current research focuses on the population genetic structure of snow leopard Panthera uncia in China, and on the ecological applications of scat-extracted DNA for assessing densities, migration patterns and prey preferences. In addition, I am collaborating on a project aimed to determine population structure and density of Asian elephant, Elephas maximus, in Yunnan, south-west China.