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Antonello Lobianco's general Curriculum Vitae
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Antonello Lobianco
Born 1975, male, Italian.
Married, two kids (2015 and 2017)
Forest and agricultural Economist
Research Engineer @ AgroParisTech
Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA - ex Laboratoire d'Economie Forestière)
14 Rue Girardet, 54100 Nancy, France
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
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
|2016 - 2018| Participation at the EU H2020 research
MARCO -
MArket Research for a Climate Services Observatory
[2016-2018| Lecturer of welfare, forest and resource economics, Universitè de Lorrain and AgroParisTech
|2016 - 2017| Participation at the INRA/Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood, and Forestry of France research project “Contribution of forests and French forest-wood sector to climate change mitigation”
|2013 - | Research engineer at Laboratoire d'Economie Forestière (now BETA, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée), joint research unit INRA/AgroParisTech (Nancy, France), working on the forest sector modelling
|2012 - 2015| Participation at 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)
|2012| Post-doc at Laboratoire d'Economie Forestière
|2011| Lecturer of Regional and Environmental Economics, Faculty of Economics, Marche Polytechnic University (9 EU credits, 66 hours of class lessons)
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|2006 - 2010| Founder of the research project
RegMAS -
Regional Multi Agent Simulator
|2004 - 2006| Member of the EU research
IDEMA –
The impact of decoupling and modulation in the enlarged union: a sectoral and farm level assessment
|2004| Visiting student at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO)
|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
|2002 - current| 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.
|2000| 6 months “Erasmus” scholarship at the Umeå University, Sweden, working with Prof. Bengt Kristrom
Reviewer
Journals
Environmental Modelling & Software (2015)
Baltic Forestry (2014)
Agriregionieuropa (2008,2011,2012,2013)
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 |
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 |
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€ | Under review |
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
(ongoing)
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% |
|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”