Marco L. Bianchini Senior Researcher CNR (the Italian National Research Council)

Job Description:

Research: fisheries (deep-sea commercial trawling, small scale fishery for LDC, eel fishery);
Statistics, population dynamics, stock assessment, mathematical models, marking;
Aquaculture (eel, prawns, minor species, restocking);
Recreational marine activities
Head of the Italian national "Slipper lobsters" project 1993/97
Teaching: Aquaculture nutrition; mathematical modeling
Consulting in: Italy, France, Greece, Kenya, Tunisia, India, Guinea, Senegal, Zaire, Somalia
Publications: 74 referred and 39 other scientific papers, 1 patent

Education: Ph.D. (Fisheries) - University of Washington 1999
"Laurea" (Italian upper-Master) in Geography (Liberal Arts) - University of Rome 1995
Diploma of Institute of Fisheries Management (UK) - 1992
"Laurea" (Italian upper-Master) in Natural Sciences - University of Rome 1982
"Laurea" (Italian upper-Master) in Biological Sciences (Hydrobiology) - University of Rome 1973

Annual (gross) salary: 55,000 US$ (roughly equivalent to 75,000 US$ in the US)

Years in the "aquatic" field: since 1973 (since 1974 with CNR)

Other information: Secretary of the Board of the European Aquaculture society (EAS) 1992/94
Chairman of the Aquaculture Committee of the Italian Soc. for Marine Biol. (SIBM) 1994/95
Certified Fisheries Professional (AFS); Certified biologist
Three NATO fellowships (for the Univ. of Rhode Island / Grad. School Oceanography)
Professional associations: SIBM, EAS, AFS, AIFRB (fellow), IFM
Editorial boards: J. Ecobiol., Aquacult. Internat., Biol. Mar. Medit., Quad. Ist. Brunelli
Languages: Italian, English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish (and ancient Latin and Greek!)