Professor Adele Muscolo is a soil scientist specialized in the area of soil fertility and soil quality.
She graduated in Biological Sciences at Messina University, Italy, and completed her PhD in Food Science at Naples University, Italy. She started her professional carrier as researcher at “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria where she is still working as Full Professor in soil chemistry and ecology.
Since 1988, She investigated the connections between soil chemistry, biochemistry and function in regulating ecosystem-level processes in forests, managed ecosystems (e.g. tree nurseries), grasslands, as well as urban environments. Her main research areas include characterization and dynamics of Soils Organic Matter in relation to soil fertility, soil erosion, soil degradation, soil salinization, relationship between soil organic matter (labile and recalcitrant C fractions) and soil biodiversity in driving soil ecosystem functioning and environmental issues such as biotic and abiotic pressure on soil. Her research goal is to provide innovative solutions for soil management that will increase productivity ensuring soil and environmental quality.
Knowledges derived from her research activities are disseminated in scientific community and industry, and used to develop management guidelines, recommendations and tools for sound soil management.
She is reviewer for International Scientific Journals and Associate Editor for Journal of Forestry Research and Forests. She is evaluator of research projects for European Community, International Funding Research Agencies and Italian and Foreign Research Ministries. She is author/co-author of over 200 papers published in international journals with Impact Factor. She is part of the list “World’s Top 2% of scientist of their main subfield discipline, for 2020 and 2021(Ioannidis JPA, Boyack KW, Baas J; 2020 Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators. PLoS Biol 18(10): e3000918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918).
She was appointed as Member of the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils ITPS (FAO-Global Soil Partnership 2022-2025).
Biography:
Adele Muscolo
Mediterranea University of ​​Reggio Calabria
Professor Adele Muscolo is a soil scientist specialized in the area of soil fertility and soil quality.
She graduated in Biological Sciences at Messina University, Italy, and completed her PhD in Food Science at Naples University, Italy. She started her professional carrier as researcher at “Mediterranea” University of Reggio Calabria where she is still working as Full Professor in soil chemistry and ecology.
Since 1988, She investigated the connections between soil chemistry, biochemistry and function in regulating ecosystem-level processes in forests, managed ecosystems (e.g. tree nurseries), grasslands, as well as urban environments. Her main research areas include characterization and dynamics of Soils Organic Matter in relation to soil fertility, soil erosion, soil degradation, soil salinization, relationship between soil organic matter (labile and recalcitrant C fractions) and soil biodiversity in driving soil ecosystem functioning and environmental issues such as biotic and abiotic pressure on soil. Her research goal is to provide innovative solutions for soil management that will increase productivity ensuring soil and environmental quality.
Knowledges derived from her research activities are disseminated in scientific community and industry, and used to develop management guidelines, recommendations and tools for sound soil management.
She is reviewer for International Scientific Journals and Associate Editor for Journal of Forestry Research and Forests. She is evaluator of research projects for European Community, International Funding Research Agencies and Italian and Foreign Research Ministries. She is author/co-author of over 200 papers published in international journals with Impact Factor. She is part of the list “World’s Top 2% of scientist of their main subfield discipline, for 2020 and 2021(Ioannidis JPA, Boyack KW, Baas J; 2020 Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators. PLoS Biol 18(10): e3000918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918).
She was appointed as Member of the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils ITPS (FAO-Global Soil Partnership 2022-2025).