Margherita Gioria

Current position: Associate Professor, Environmental and Applied Botany, BIO/03

Education
2007 Ph.D. Botany, University College Dublin, Ireland
2005 Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods, University College Dublin, Ireland
2003 M.Sc.(Agr.) Environmental Resource Management (Honors), University College Dublin
1999 Laurea in Economia e Commercio, Università degli Studi di Torino (cum laude)

Academic positions
2014 – 2023 Research Fellow, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
2017 – 2018 Research Fellow, University College Dublin, Ireland
2014 – 2018 Visiting Lecturer, University College Dublin, Ireland
2012 – 2013 W1 Professor of Plant Ecology, GeoEcology and Modelling, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany
2008 – 2011 Research Fellow, University College Dublin, Ireland
2007 – 2008 Post-doctoral Researcher, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Visiting Academic Positions
2019 Visiting Fellow, University of Pisa, Italy
2011 Visiting Researcher, University of Siena, Italy
2011 Visiting Researcher, University of Konstanz, Germany
2010 Visiting Researcher, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

Projects
2019 – 2021 GAČR (Czech Science Foundation) – Principal Investigator. Project: “Live long, spread fast: the role of seed persistence in plant invasions.”
2019 – 2021 GAČR (Czech Science Foundation) – Principal Investigator. Project: “Timing is everything: the role of soil seed banks in plant invasions”
2007 – 2011 Environmental Protection Agency Ireland – Principal Investigator. Project: “The effects of agriculture on freshwater biodiversity”

Editorial work
2017 – present Associate Editor, Biological Invasions
2010 – 2019 Subject Editor, Ecosphere