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

• 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)

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

• [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

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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)

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

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

* 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.

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

• |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”

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