Name: Mauro Centritto

CURRICULUM VITAE

Birth date: 17 January 1958

Nationality: Italian

Contact:Istituto Inquinamento Atmosferico (IAA), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), via Salaria km. 29,300 C.P. 10, 00016 Monterotondo Stazione (RM), Italy; tel. +39 06 90672 731; fax +39 06 90672 660; email: .

Education: Doctorate degree in Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples, Italy; Ph.D. in Biological Sciences, Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Overseas Experience:Argentina, Austria, China, Morocco, United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, USA, Hungary, Israel, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia, Argentina (visits for research, teaching or study-tour).

Research Fields: Environmental Biology and Environmental Physiology of Plants. Special interests in regulation of growth and functioning of plants subjected to environmental perturbation, extreme environments (water and carbon relations, growth and survival, energy balance; natural and polluted environments), carbon sequestration and evaporation of water in relation to global environmental change. Study of the relationships between biogenic emissions and the environment. Monitoring characteristics and stress conditions of vegetation cover using remote sensing techniques.

Project coordinator: Over the past 10 years he has led research teams working on agricultural and forest related topics including: carbon assimilation and transpiration in agroforestry systems; photosynthesis, growth and carbon allocation; impact of elevated CO2 concentration and rising temperature on the physiology and growth of agricultural and forest ecosystems; plant growth and water use efficiency along the gradient of desertification; multiple roles of biodiversity in biogeochemical cycles to comply with the Kyoto protocol: conflicts between climate-change mitigation and biodiversity protection.

Teaching Experience: Taught a variety of university courses at the University of Molise (Italy), supervisor of PhD and Postdoc students, many from overseas. Visiting Professor in China and Marocco.

Consultancy:Consultant of the Italian IPCC Focal Point. Consultancy fields: global carbon balance, climate change, teaching ecology, advice on postgraduate training, carbon sequestration and Joint Implementation.

Organisational skills:

Member of the organising committee of the Conference Forestry and Agroforestry for Environmental Protection and Rural Development, 2-3 November 1999, Beijing, China.

Member of the scientific committee of the Conference Forest Ecosystem: Ecology, Conservation and Sustainable Management, August 15-21, 2000, Chengdu, China.

Member of the scientific committee of the European Union High-Level Scientific Conferences Photosynthesis in a Changing World, May 27 - June 3, 2003, Chania, Crete, Greece.

Member of the International Organising Committee del Second Mediterranean ConferenceWater Resources in the Mediterranean Basin (WATMED 2), November 14-17, 2005, Marrakech, Morocco.

Editorial Work: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment; Referee for Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, Acta Oecologica, Field Crops Research,Forest@, Functional Plant Biology, Italian Journal of Agronomy, Physiologia Plantarum, Photosynthesis Research, Plant Biology, Plant Biosystems, Plant, Cell and Environment, Tree Physiology.

Recent papers include:

Centritto M., Lucas M.E. & Jarvis P.G. (2002) Gas exchange, biomass, whole-plant water-use efficiency and water uptake of peach (Prunus persica) seedlings in response to elevated [CO2] and water availability. Tree Physiology 22, 699-706.

Centritto M., Loreto F. & Chartzoulakis K. (2003) The use of low [CO2] to estimate diffusional and non-diffusional limitations of photosynthetic capacity of salt-stressed olive saplings. Plant, Cell and Environment 26, 585-594.

Loreto F., Centritto M. & Chartzoulakis K. (2003) Photosynthetic limitations in olive cultivars with different sensitivity to salt stress. Plant, Cell and Environment 26, 595-601.

Centritto M., Nascetti P., Petrilli L., Raschi A. & Loreto F. (2004) Profiles of isoprene emission and photosynthetic parameters in hybrid poplars exposed to free-air CO2 enrichment. Plant, Cell and Environment27, 403-412.

Loreto F. & Centritto M. (2004) Photosynthesis in a changing world (Editorial). PlantBiology 6, 239-241.

Centritto M. (2005)Photosynthetic limitations and carbon partitioning in cherry in response to water deficit and elevated [CO2]. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment106, 233-242.

Centritto M., Wahbi S., Serraj R. & ChavesM.M. (2005)Effects of partial rootzone drying (PRD) on adult olive tree (Olea europaea) in field conditions under arid climate. II. Photosynthetic responses. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 106, 303-311.

Wittmann C., Pfanz H., Loreto F., Centritto M., Pietrini F. & Alessio G. (2006) Stem CO2-release under illumination: Corticular photosynthesis, photorespiration or inhibition of mitochondrial respiration? Plant, Cell and Environment 29, in press.