Gianfranco ROMANAZZI
Marche Polytechnic University

 
Gianfranco Romanazzi completed his degree in Agricultural Sciences (with ‘cum laude’) in 1995 at the University of Bari, where he also completed his PhD in Crop Protection, in 1999. He joined Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona in 2001, and became Assistant Professor in Plant Pathology in 2004. Currently he is an Associate Professor (since 2014). His teaching courses include Plant Pathology (since 2001/02) and Plant Disease Management (since 2010/11). Within the Socrates-Erasmus programme he did some lecturing at the University of Bursa, Turkey, in March-April 2009, and at University of Cartagena, Spain (July 2016). His scientific activities have involved different aspects of plant pathology, from diagnosis and molecular characterisation of plant pathogens, to the control of plant diseases. Together with his research team, he has applied disease-control measures both in the field and after the harvest, through environmentally friendly means (i.e., resistance inducers, chitosan, natural compounds, UV-C irradiation, ozone, hypobaric and hyperbaric treatments). In 2004-2005, part of his research was carried at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Parlier, California, USA, in the framework of an Italian National Research Council (CNR) Fellowship. In June-August 2015, he spent a period at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Station of Vineland, Ontario, Canada. He has been the tutor of seven PhD students in “Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences” at Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, and he is currently co-tutor of one PhD student from Thswane University, South Africa, one PhD student from the University of Carthage, Tunisia, and one PhD student from Aitkhozhin Institute of Molecular Biology, Kazakhstan. His scientific activities have been carried out through funding from the European Union (Euberry, within the FP7 framework) and Italian national (PRIN-MIUR, Cariverona Foundation) and regional (from Apulia, Tuscany, Marche, University of Bari, Marche Polytechnic University) research projects, where he has acted as a Coordinator or as the Leader of a Research Unit. He has been a member of the COST actions on berries (863), phytoplasma (FA0807), and endophytes (FA1103), and is currently involved in the Management Committee of COST actions on “Sustainable control of grapevine trunk diseases” (FA1303) and “Using three-way interactions between plants, microbes and arthropods to enhance crop protection and production” (FA1405). He is part of the Management Committee of the Phytoplasma Working Group of the Italian Phytopathological Society, and he is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Platform for Organic Agriculture and of the “Monilinia.org” international network. For 2014-2017, he is part of the Board of the Italian Phytopathological Society (SIPaV), and he is on the Board of Trustees of the Italian Society for Plant Protection (AIPP). He is also in the Board of the Italian Society for Research on Essential Oils (SIROE). He has been on the Organising Committees of several national (Italian) and international meetings, and during some of these he also served as a session Chairman. He has been invited to be part of the National Commission for final PhD examinations at the Universities of Bari, Bologna, Pisa, Reggio Calabria, and Udine. Moreover, he joined the international Commission for final PhD examinations at the Universities of Bologna, Valencia (Spain), and Pretoria (South Africa). He is part of Editorial Board for Postharvest Biology and Technology, and Journal of Integrated -OMICS, and he is Senior Editor for Australasian Plant Pathology. He is a member of the Italian Phytopathological Society (SIPaV), the Italian Horticultural Society (SOI), the Italian Society for Plant Protection (AIPP), the Italian Society for the Research on Essential Oils (SIROE), the Mediterranean Phytopathological Union (MPU), the International Council for the Study of Virus and Virus-like Diseases of the Grapevine (ICVG), the International Council on Grapevine Trunk Diseases (ICGTD), the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), the International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI), and the American Phytopathological Society (APS). He is an author of more than 270 papers published in national and international journals, book chapters and proceedings of congresses.

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