Prizes & Awards
2017: award for the participation to the 68th EAAP Annual Meeting in Tallinn, Estonia
2017: Travel award for the best oral presentation to attend the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science
Association (ADSA) from Novus International, Inc.
2016 Grant holder - COST Action FA1308 Dairy Care Short Term Scientific Mission- “A metabolomic
investigation of choline supplementation using 1H NMR spectroscopy of bovine blood plasma”
Location: Ruminant Research Group (G2R) Department of Animal and Food Sciences Universitat Autonoma de
Barcelona Spain (one month)
2017: participation to the European Nutrition Leadership Programme-ENLP essential programme
Grants
From 2017 FOODTECH project-Regione Lombardia (team member)
2016 Grant holder COST Action FA1308 Dairy Care Short Term Scientific Mission - “A metabolomic investigation
of choline supplementation using 1H NMR spectroscopy of bovine blood plasma”. Location: Ruminant Research
Group (G2R) Department of Animal and Food Sciences Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Spain
02/2016 -07/2016 Project IZS PLV 06/14 RC (team member)- Sicurezza degli ex prodotti alimentari utilizzati
nell’alimentazione zootecnica
Institutional Responsibilities
2014 (Sept) – 2016 (Dec): Member of AVA ANVUR (ENQA) committee- Quality Evaluation of Universities and
research systems- Via Ippolito Nievo, 35 -00153 Roma, Italy
2018- 2019 (June): Aq member, Università Telematica San Raffaele (Roma)
Memberships of Scientific Societies
2016 - Member of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP)
2016 - Member of the Animal Science and Production Association (ASPA)
2017 - European Nutrition Leadership Platform ENLP
Collaborations
Stig Purup, University of Aarhus, DK (b
related publication number )
Ian Givens, Animal nutrition and production, University of Reading, UK (a
related publication and several
abstracts)
Julie Lovegrove, Human Nutrition, University of Reading, UK (a
related publication and several abstracts)
Agi Fekete, Post doctoral fellow, University of Reading, UK (a
related publication number and several abstracts)
Ahmed Salama, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, ES & South Dakota State University, USA
Editorial activities
From 2020: Guest Editor for Animals Journal (ISSN 2076-2615; IF 1.832), Special Issue entitled "Plant-Based
Alternatives to Antimicrobial in Animal Feed
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/animals/special_issues/plant_antimicrobial)
From 2020: Topic Board of Foods (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods/, ISSN 2304-8158, IF )
Reviewer activities
From 2019 - Antioxidants MDPI
From 2019- Amino acids MDPI
From 2017- BMC Nutrition
From 2019- Journal of Dairy Science
From 2019- Mycotoxin Research
From 2016- International Journal of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety