Anna Gagliardo

Current Position: Researcher at the Biology Department (University of Pisa)
-2013 obtained the qualification required to be promoted both Associate and Full Professor
-2004 Researcher at the University of Pisa
-1994 technician at the Department of Ethology, Ecology and Evolution, University of Pisa
-1993 technician at the Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa.
-1989 PhD in Ethology University of Pisa
- 1983 degree cum laude in Biology, University of Pisa.
Fellowships:-1985 fellowship granted by the European Science Foundation (European Training Programme for Brain and Behaviour Research) at Department of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, University of Warwick, UK
-1990 fellowship granted by the European Science Foundation (European Training Programme for Brain and Behaviour Research) at the Institut of Neurophysiology, Panum Institute, Copenhagen, DK
-1992 fellowship granted by the Accademia dei Lincei at the Zoology Department, University of Oxford, UK
-1997 research collaboration granted by CNR at the Department of Psychology, Ruhr University, D
Awards-2001 the award “Ettore Bora” for the Biological Sciences from the Accademia dei Lincei
Nominations-2019 she has been nominated Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, UK
Grants: As Principal Investigator:
2008 PRIN “Magnetic orientation in birds: magnetoreception, brain regions involved in processing magnetic stimuli and the role of geomagnetic parameters in navigation.
As participant:
2004 PRIN “Role of geomagnetic information in navigation and orientation of Birds and Reptiles Chelonii
2015 PRA of the University of Pisa “Adaptive response to human impact in endangered species”
2017 PRA of the University of Pisa "Analisi multidisciplinare di processi adattativi di specie sinantropiche
Invited talks
-March 2023 Seminar at CIMEC, Rovereto, I
-March 2023 Janelia’s Navigational Algorithms and Neural Circuit Computations Directing Olfactory Search Across Species Conference, Ashburn, USA
-July 2019 Workshop on Locomotion and Navigation from Flies to Robots, ICTP, Trieste, I
-February 2018 Colloquium at the ICTP Quantitative Life Sciences Section, Trieste, I
-December 2017 FENS-Hertie Winter School 2017 "Neural Control of Behaviour, Series1: Navigation”, Obergurgl, A
-December 2016 Plenary Talk at the ASAB Winter Meeting, London, UK
-September 2014 Theo Murphy International Scientific Meeting, “When senses take flight: the evolution, development, mechanisms and function of avian senses”, Chicheley Hall, Newport Pagnell, UK
-February 2013 Seminar at the Department of Biopsychology, Ruhr University, D
-March 2011 Seminar at the Department of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University, D
-December 2010 Seminar at the MPG for Ornithology, Seewiesen, D
-July 2008 International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste, San Francisco, USA
-August 2005 Gordon Conference for Neuroethology, Oxford, UK
-September 2002 Symposium “Spatial memory and cognition” at the MPG for Ornithology, Seewiesen, D
-September 2002 Symposium “Neurobiology and neurology of behaviour”, 63° Convegno dell’Unione Zoologica Italiana, Rende, I
-August 2001 Symposium “Spatial representation in animals”, XXVII International Ethological Conference, Tuebingen, D
-July 2001 Symposium “Avian models of complex information processing” 6th International Congress of Neuroethology, Bonn, D
-February 2001 Seminar at the MPG for Ornithology, Seewiesen, D
-September 1997 Seminar at the Department of Biopsychology, Ruhr University, D
-June 1996 Seminar at the Department of Animal Biology, Ferrara, I
Editorial work
Associate Editor, Movement Ecology