Antonello Lobianco's general Curriculum Vitae

Note: latest version of this CV can be retrieved from https://lobianco.org/antonello/academic/curriculum

Research engineer in social sciences ⇨ environmental economics applied to forests ⇨ carbon sequestration and climate change

List of academic publications: http://lobianco.org/antonello/academic:publications
Portfolio of IT related projects: http://lobianco.org/antonello/personal:portfolio:home

Affilliations

AgroParisTech, Département Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de Gestion, UFR Économie, Générale et Appliquée, Campus de Nancy (since Septembre 2013)
Bureau d'économie théorique et appliquée (BETA), Nancy (since January 2018)
Chaire Energie et Prospérité (since September 2021)

Other positions and experiences

[2013 - current] Research engineer at AgroParisTech
[2012] Post doc at INRA
|2002 - 2012| Member of the Agreco Research Group at the Department of Economics of Marche Polytechnic University with Franco Sotte and Roberto Esposti, among others.
|2001 - 2002| Brief stage at the Department of Agronomy, Forest and Land management of Turin University in the matter of Geographical Information Systems applied to Forest Management.
|2004| Visiting student at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO)
|2000| 6 months “Erasmus” scholarship at the Umeå University, Sweden, working with Prof. Bengt Kristrom

OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1534-8697
Google Schoolar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8DSfpVUAAAAJ
GitHub: https://github.com/sylvaticus/

Research activities

Participation in research projects

[2023 - ] Principal investigator of a work package of the SLAM-B project (“Scenario Labs and integrated Assessment Modelling for Bioeconomy”), a targeted project of the French national PEPR “ForestCarboN”
[2021 - 2024] Coordination of the National ADEME GRAINE 2019 project “STREISAND - SubsTitution diRectE et Indirecte des émiSsions de cArboNe par les proDuits bois”
[2021] Contribution to the preparation of the ForestValue ERA-NET project “TAURIEL - Timber as an Alternative Use of Resources: Impacts on Ecosystem services and Lands”
[2021] Contribution to the preparation of the HORIZON project “ECOSTARHub” on private financing of ecosystem services production
|2016 - 2018| Participation at the EU H2020 research MARCO - MArket Research for a Climate Services Observatory
[2018] Contribution to the preparation of the ForestValue ERA-NET project “TimForES - Timber production For Ecosystem Service enhancement in a bio-economic perspective”
|2016 - 2017| Participation in the INRA/Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood, and Forestry of France research project “Contribution of forests and French forest-wood sector to climate change mitigation”
|2012 - 2015| Participation in the ANR (French National Research Agency) research “ORACLE - Opportunities and Risks of Agrosystems & forests in response to CLimate, socio-economic and policy changEs in France (and Europe)”
|2004 - 2006| Participation in the 6th EU Framework research “IDEMA – The impact of decoupling and modulation in the enlarged union: a sectoral and farm level assessment”
|2002 - 2004| Member of the EU research AG-MEMOD - Agricultural sector in the member states and EU: econometric modelling for projection and analysis of EU policies on agriculture, forestry and the environment

Skills

Research areas

Forest sector climate change mitigation potential
Forest managers climate change adaptation strategies
Forest and forest sector dynamics
Political economy in the intersections between agricultural, rural development, forest and environmental domains
Linkage between social simulation, spatial dimension and biophysical environment
Common Agricultural Policy and distributional issues (past)
Knowledge transfer and informal learning in the agricultural domain (past)

Methodologies

Machine learning (Random Forests, Neural Networks, GMM/EM/Kmeans, …)
Agent-based simulations and partial equilibrium models
Mathematical programming (LP, MIP, NL,..)
Markowitz (1952) mean-variance model
Markov transition forest matrix models
Carbon flow and stocks modelling
Using distance learning, social networks and community of practices for Knowledge transfer

General academic skills

Teaching at graduate level
Preparation (i.e. fundraising) and participation in international research projects
Technical and computer competences:
- Julia language programming
- C++ programming and GUI programming using the Qt toolkit
- GIS usage and scripting (Grass/QGis/ArcGis), spatial analysis
- Mathematical programming libraries and related software (GLPK, Ipopt, ADOL-C, ColPack, Pyomo, JuMP)
- Statistical and mathematical packages (GAMS, GRETL, TSP…)
- Install and administer LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySql/PHP|Phyton|Perl) servers
- Install, personalise and administer Content Management Systems (e.g. Drupal), Course Management Systems (e.g. Moodle), Collaboration platform (NextCloud, LibreOffic Online), team computation environments (RStudio Server, JupiterHub)
- Advanced spreadsheet usage (Excel, OpenOffice Calc)
- Scripting/macro languages (Python, PHP, Perl, Visual Basic, Star Basic)
- Database and user interface design

Other competences

Languages: Italian (mother tongue), English (C), French (B)
Ability of working in team while respecting deadlines
Ability to express my opinions selecting the correct language according to the specific audience
Organise complex initiatives involving several actors (e.g. e-learning courses)

Experiences

Reviewer

Journals

Agriregionieuropa (2008,2011,2012,2013)
Baltic Forestry (2014)
Bio-based and Applied Economics (2018,1019)
Environmental Modelling & Software (2015)
Information Processing in Agriculture (2021)
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2023)
Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology (2019)
Journal of Forest Economics (2020)
Journal of Open Source Software (2021, 2023)

Conferences

French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2017)
Association Française de Science Economique (2016)
122nd European Association of Agricultural Economists Seminar (2011)

Teaching

Ac. Y.	Subject	Hours (front lesson)	Institute	Level	Lang	Role
2022/2023	Forest economics	12	AgroParisTech	Graduated	Eng	Resp.
2022/2023	Forest sector modelling	2.5	AgroParisTech	Graduated (master M2 EEET/EDDEE)	Eng	Lect.
2022/2023	International negotiations on climate change and forestry	6	AgroParisTech	Graduated (masters FSN/GEEFT)	Eng	Lect.
2022/2023	Natural resource economics	12	Université de Lorraine	Graduated - Master M2 ECENV	Eng	Resp.
2021/2022	Scientific programming and Machine learning with Julia	24	AgroParisTech/Nanterre	Graduated	Eng	Resp.
2021/2022	Scientific programming with Julia	12	Université de Lorraine PhD School	PhD	Eng	Resp.
2021/2022	Forest economics	12	AgroParisTech	Graduated	Eng	Resp.
2021/2022	Forest sector modelling	2	AgroParisTech	Undergraduated	Eng	Lect.
2021/2022	Forest sector modelling	2.5	AgroParisTech	Graduated (master M2 EEET/EDDEE)	Eng	Lect.
2021/2022	International negotiations on climate change and forestry	6	AgroParisTech	Graduated (masters FSN/GEEFT)	Eng	Lect.
2021/2022	Natural resource economics	12	Université de Lorraine	Graduated - Master M2 ECENV	Eng	Resp.
2020/2021	Forest economics	12	AgroParisTech	Graduated	Eng	Resp.
2020/2021	Forest sector modelling	2	AgroParisTech	Undergraduated	Eng	Lect.
2020/2021	Forest sector modelling	2.5	AgroParisTech	Graduated (master M2 EEET/EDDEE)	Eng	Lect.
2020/2021	International negotiations on climate change and forestry	6	AgroParisTech	Graduated (masters FSN/GEEFT)	Eng	Lect.
2020/2021	Natural resource economics	12	Université de Lorraine	Graduated - Master M2 ECENV	Eng	Resp.
2019/2020	Forest economics	12	AgroParisTech	Graduated	Eng	Resp.
2019/2020	Forest sector modelling	2	AgroParisTech	Undergraduated	Eng	Lect.
2019/2020	Forest sector modelling	2.5	AgroParisTech	Graduated (master M2 EEET/EDDEE)	Eng	Lect.
2019/2020	International negotiations on climate change and forestry	6	AgroParisTech	Graduated (masters FSN/GEEFT)	Eng	Lect.
2019/2020	Natural resource economics	12	Université de Lorraine	Graduated - Master M2 ECENV	Eng	Resp.
2018/2019	Forest economics	12	AgroParisTech	Graduated	Eng	Resp.
2018/2019	Forest sector modelling	2	AgroParisTech	Undergraduated	Eng	Lect.
2018/2019	Forest sector modelling	2.5	AgroParisTech	Graduated (master M2 EEET/EDDEE)	Eng	Lect.
2018/2019	International negotiations on climate change and forestry	3	AgroParisTech	Graduated (master FSN)	Eng	Lect.
2018/2019	Natural resource economics	12	Université de Lorraine	Graduated - Master M2 ECENV	Eng	Resp.
2018/2019	Natural resource economics	9	Université de Lorraine	Undergraduated	Eng	Lect.
2017/2018	Welfare and forest economics	12	AgroParisTech	Graduated	Eng	Resp.
2017/2018	Forest modelling	4	AgroParisTech	Graduated	Eng	Lect.
2017/2018	Natural resource economics	8	Université de Lorraine	Graduated	Eng	Lect.
2016/2017	Welfare and forest economics	12	AgroParisTech	Graduated	Eng	Lect.
2016/2017	Forest modelling	2	AgroParisTech	Graduated	Eng	Lect.
2016/2017	Natural resource economics	8	Université de Lorraine	Master deuxième année pour ingénieurs	Eng	Lect.
2010/2011	Regional and environmental economics	66	Università Politecnica delle Marche	Master deuxième année	Ita	Resp.

Didactic activities (other than teaching)

Year	Activity
2020	Community Teaching Assistant for the MITx course 6.86x “Machine Learning with Python - From Linear Models to Deep Learning”
2018	Community Teaching Assistant for the MITx course 14.310x “Data Analysis for Social Scientists”
2018	Community Teaching Assistant for the MITx course 6.041 “Introduction to probability” (part 2)
2017/2018	Monitoring committee of a PhD program on “ACV territoriale appliquée à un territoire forestier”
2017/2018	Master thesis literature review supervisor
2009/2010	Master thesis (“laurea quinquennale”) supervisor: “Un’analisi degli impatti ambientali attraverso un modello di simulazione multi-agente”
2003/2004	Master thesis (“laurea quinquennale”) supervisor: “La filiera foresta-legno nelle Marche”
2002/2012	Technical and/or pedagogical manager of many distance learning and knowledge transfer programs, including for the Faculty of Economics of UNIVPM, the “Associazione Alessandro Bartola” (AAB), the “Consiglio per la Ricerca e Sperimentazione in Agricoltura” (CRA), the “Istituto Nazionale di Economia Agraria” (INEA), the EU Commission, the “Istituto Adriano Olivetti” (ISTAO)

Fundrising / project writing

(only projects where I had a formal or informal leading role)

Year	Project title	Call	Project cost	Result
2018	Timber production For Ecosystem Service enhancement in a bio-economic perspective (TimForES)	Forestvalue ERA-NET	778,716€	Not admitted
2013	Rural regions and regional policies: a spatially explicit impact evaluation using microdata	Italian research ministry	872,953€	Not admitted
2012	An integrated formal and social learning approach for rural communities (ILARC)	EU Lifelong learning programme	496,865€	Not admitted

Certifications and lifelong learning

MOOCs

Year	Title	Provider	Mark
2021	Micromaster in Statistics and Data Science	MITx (edX)	73%* - records
2020	6.86x - Machine Learning with Python: from Linear Models to Deep Learning	MITx (edX)	96% - cert.
2019	18.6501x - Fundamentals of Statistics	MITx (edX)	95% - cert.
2018	14.310x - Data Analysis for Social Scientists	MITx (edX)	96% - cert.
2018	UCI1x - Understanding Classroom Interaction	PennX (edX)	100% - cert.
2018	6.041.2x - Introduction to Probability: Part 2 - Inference and Processes	MITx (edX)	94% - cert.
2017	6.041.1x - Introduction to Probability: Part 1 - The Fundamentals	MITx (edX)	100% - cert.

* due to problems with the proctoring software in the first set of exams, where the proctoring solution provider was falsely claiming support for the Mozilla Firefox browser.

upWork

Following is a list of results from upWork.com tests:

Test name	Percentile	Notes
C++ Programming Test	82%	TOP 20%
MS Excel 2000 Test	87%	TOP 20%

Formal Education

|2017 - 2021| “MicroMaster” in Statistics and Data Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
|2004 - 2007| Ph.D. on Agricultural Policies at University of Tuscia (Viterbo)
|1995 - 2001| Five years degree in Forest and Environmental Sciences at Turin University (full marks cum laude). Final paper of degree on the Environmental Kuznet's Curve.
|1990 - 1995| “Liceo Scientifico”

Personal

Born 1975, male, Italian. Married, three kids (b. 2015,2017,2018) and a dog