Cristina Nali

PROF. CRISTINA NALI – s.s.d. AGR/12 = Plant Pathology
Born on January 30, 1965, in Piombino (Livorno), Italy; 1991: Laurea Degree in Agricultural Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy (cum laude); 1997: PhD in Plant Pathology, University of Pisa, Italy; 2002: Assistant Professor, Chair of Plant Pathology, University of Pisa, Italy; 2011: Associate Professor of Plant Pathology; 2017 to present: Full Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Pisa; 2020 to present: Deputy-Dean, Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa; 2014 to 2020: President of the Aggregate Council of the Master Courses in Agri-food production and management of agroecosystems and in Planning and management of urban green and landscape of the University of Pisa; 2012-2016: Director of Leonardo – Research Institute on Territory and Environment, Pisa; delegate of the national coordination table for the courses in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies; member of the Accademia dei Georgofili; member of the Landscape Commission of the Tuscany Region, disciplinary expert of the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research system (ANVUR), member of the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) 2018 commission and of local competition commissions for full/associate professor, elected member in the Worker’s Safety Representative (RLS) for the University of Pisa. The research activities mainly concern the interactions between plants and air pollutants (metabolic, physiological and productive implications of their presence in agricultural and forest ecosystems and monitoring of air pollutants with plants). Current research topics include: molecular bases of differential responses of plants to ozone and other oxidative stresses; ecophysiological responses of plants to abiotic and biotic stresses; chemical ecology and tritrophic relationships in the urban environment.
Supervisor of over 40 experimental theses, as well as academic tutor for about 40 research grants. Member of the board of doctoral professors and supervisor of 6 doctoral theses also on various topics also related to climate change and its effects on plant biology. His publication record consists of more than 300 papers including highly-cited papers published in the world’s leading scientific journals dealing with phytotoxicology (e.g. Atmospheric Environment; Environmental Pollution; Water, Air & Soil Pollution; Environmental Management & Assessment; Environmental & Experimental Botany; Journal of Environmental Monitoring; Ecotoxicology; Science of the Total Environment; Environmental Science and Pollution Research), as well as with the application of eustress for producing positive responses in plants (e.g. Industrial Crops and Products). She is the coauthor of the volumes “Plants and air pollution” (in Italian, “Le piante e l’inquinamento dell’aria”, Springer, Milan, 2005) and “Principles of crop protection” (in Italian, “Princìpi di fitoiatria”, Edagricole, Bologna, 2001), co-guest-editor of special issues of Environmental & Experimental Botany (2011) and Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2017). She has been the chairperson of several national/international conferences and has given over 80 presentations/posters at scientific events. She served as reviewer of many international journals and as Associate Editor of Environmental and experimental botany (Elsevier) and Plants (MDPI).
Nali’s contributions to the field of environmental toxicology has led to his involvement in several projects. He has acted as the scientific coordinator/principal investigator of several regional, national (PRIN) and bilateral projects. Reviewer for international and national projects (PRIN, FIRB, Futuro in Ricerca, REFIN).
His university didactical duties include the teaching of courses on Crop protection and Plant pathology. She has served as the Secretary of the Italian Phytopathological Society (SIPaV).
Metrics (Scopus, Sep 2021): hi 28; cit. 2808; doc. 152