Emeritus Professor of Politecnico di Milano.
Marino Gatto, born in 1949, graduated in Electronic Enginering in 1972; he is Professor of Ecology, School of Civil, Environmental and Land Use Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. His cultural background is engineering and mathematical modelling and his research has entirely focussed on ecology and the management of renewable resources since 1974.
The turning point of his career occurred in 1974 when he became a research fellow in the Ecology Group of IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Laxenburg, Austria. In 1976 he joined the Institute of Animal Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, for about one year to specialize in applied ecology.
Professional Appointments
1978: Assistant Professor of System Theory, University of Naples
1978-1982: Assistant Professor of Optimal Control, Politecnico di Milano and University of Pavia
1983-1987: Associate Professor of Applied Ecology, Politecnico di Milano
1987 - present: Professor of Ecology, Politecnico di Milano
1987: visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
1997-2001 and 2006-2007: visiting Professor, Département de biologie , Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
2011: visiting Professor, Laboratoire de Ecohydrologie, ÉcolePolytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
1991-1999: chair of the Program in Environmental and Land Use Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
1999-2002: vicepresident of the Italian Society of Ecology
2003-2006: president of the Italian Society of Ecology
2007-2010: member of the Academic Senate of the Politecnico di Milano
2009-2013: member of the executive board of the Laboratory on Energy and Environment (LEAP-Politecnico di Milano)
2013-present: member of the scientific committee of the Laboratory on Energy and Environment (LEAP-Politecnico di Milano)
2013-present: member of the council of CoNISMa, the interuniversity national consortium for marine sciences
2013-present: vice-dean of the School of Civil, Environmental and Land Use Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
2017-present: member of the executive board of the Fondazione CMCC (Centro EuroMediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici)
Professional Affiliations
Awards, Honors, National And International Service
1989: NATO Visiting fellow, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Ecology and Evolution
1997: short-term visiting scholar, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Princeton University
1993-2014: associate editor, Theoretical Population Biology
1997-2011: editor, Ecology and Society (formerly Conservation Ecology)
1998-present: editor, Biologia e Conservazione della Fauna
2012-present: editor, Advances in Water Resources
1997: Anassilaos award for environmental sciences
2002: Focus award for his studies on energy and the environment
2003-present: member of the scientific committee, WWF Italy
2007: elected to the Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere
2008: elected to the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
2015: winner of the Orange Big Data Challenge in the category Health for modelling schistosomiasis in Senegal
2016: nominated Fellow of the Alta Scuola Politecnica
Current research activity
Gatto’s main research activity is in the field of ecological modelling and management of biological resources. In the past 10 years he has focused mainly on the following topics
M. Gatto has authored or coauthored more than 200 articles. About 130 have appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Journal of the Royal Society-Interface, BioScience, The American Naturalist, Ecological Applications, Water Resources Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Journal of theoretical Biology, Ecohydrology.
The complete publication list is available at http://home.deib.polimi.it/gatto/PublicationListGatto.pdf.
Marino Gatto, born in 1949, graduated in Electronic Enginering in 1972; he is Professor of Ecology, School of Civil, Environmental and Land Use Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. His cultural background is engineering and mathematical modelling and his research has entirely focussed on ecology and the management of renewable resources since 1974.
The turning point of his career occurred in 1974 when he became a research fellow in the Ecology Group of IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Laxenburg, Austria. In 1976 he joined the Institute of Animal Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, for about one year to specialize in applied ecology.
Professional Appointments
1978: Assistant Professor of System Theory, University of Naples
1978-1982: Assistant Professor of Optimal Control, Politecnico di Milano and University of Pavia
1983-1987: Associate Professor of Applied Ecology, Politecnico di Milano
1987 - present: Professor of Ecology, Politecnico di Milano
1987: visiting Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
1997-2001 and 2006-2007: visiting Professor, Département de biologie , Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
2011: visiting Professor, Laboratoire de Ecohydrologie, ÉcolePolytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
1991-1999: chair of the Program in Environmental and Land Use Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
1999-2002: vicepresident of the Italian Society of Ecology
2003-2006: president of the Italian Society of Ecology
2007-2010: member of the Academic Senate of the Politecnico di Milano
2009-2013: member of the executive board of the Laboratory on Energy and Environment (LEAP-Politecnico di Milano)
2013-present: member of the scientific committee of the Laboratory on Energy and Environment (LEAP-Politecnico di Milano)
2013-present: member of the council of CoNISMa, the interuniversity national consortium for marine sciences
2013-present: vice-dean of the School of Civil, Environmental and Land Use Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
2017-present: member of the executive board of the Fondazione CMCC (Centro EuroMediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici)
Professional Affiliations
- Società Italiana di Ecologia
- Ecological Society of America
- American Society of Naturalists
Awards, Honors, National And International Service
1989: NATO Visiting fellow, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Department of Ecology and Evolution
1997: short-term visiting scholar, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Princeton University
1993-2014: associate editor, Theoretical Population Biology
1997-2011: editor, Ecology and Society (formerly Conservation Ecology)
1998-present: editor, Biologia e Conservazione della Fauna
2012-present: editor, Advances in Water Resources
1997: Anassilaos award for environmental sciences
2002: Focus award for his studies on energy and the environment
2003-present: member of the scientific committee, WWF Italy
2007: elected to the Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere
2008: elected to the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
2015: winner of the Orange Big Data Challenge in the category Health for modelling schistosomiasis in Senegal
2016: nominated Fellow of the Alta Scuola Politecnica
Current research activity
Gatto’s main research activity is in the field of ecological modelling and management of biological resources. In the past 10 years he has focused mainly on the following topics
- Disease and parasite ecology
- Management of marine biological resources
- Alien species dynamics
- Impacts of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystems
M. Gatto has authored or coauthored more than 200 articles. About 130 have appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Journal of the Royal Society-Interface, BioScience, The American Naturalist, Ecological Applications, Water Resources Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Journal of theoretical Biology, Ecohydrology.
The complete publication list is available at http://home.deib.polimi.it/gatto/PublicationListGatto.pdf.
