Profile
Position: Professore Emerito
Unit: Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Agro-ambientali
Giacomo LORENZINI
Born in 1951, Professor Giacomo Lorenzini obtained his Laurea Degree (cum laude) in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Pisa in 1974. He began his academic career at the same University in 1981 as a Research Assistant in Plant Pathology and was a visiting scientist at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, in 1983. In 1987 he was appointed Associate Professor of Crop Protection, and from 2000 to 2022 he served as Full Professor of Plant Pathology at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa.
Throughout his career, he held several major academic and institutional positions, including Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (2001–2003), Head of the Agro-environmental Research Centre of the University of Pisa (2005–2009), and Director of the “Leonardo” Institute for Research on Territory and Environment (2005–2006). He was an elected member of the Academic Senate of the University of Pisa for the 2016–2020 term. In 2018 he founded and became the first Director of CIRSEC, the Centre for Climate Change Impact of the University of Pisa, and in 2021 he promoted and directed the University Master Course on Sustainable Development and Climate Change.
Professor Lorenzini carried out continuous teaching activity for over forty years, delivering courses in Plant Pathology and related disciplines. For ten years he served as Dean of the Laurea Degree Programme in Management of Urban Vegetation and Landscape.
His research activity has primarily addressed crop protection, the impact of air pollution on plant life —particularly the molecular mechanisms underlying responses to ozone — and the biological monitoring of air quality. He is the inventor of a patented method for tropospheric ozone biomonitoring based on a miniaturized kit using tobacco germlings, which has been officially adopted by national environmental agencies in air quality monitoring programmes. He has served as National Delegate in several European working groups focused on the effects of air pollution on vegetation. His scientific achievements are widely recognized at the international level, with more than 4,100 citations and an h-index of 35 (Scopus, January 2026). He has acted as principal investigator in numerous research projects and has been the organizer of many scientific events, including major international conferences.
Professor Lorenzini is an Honorary Member of the Accademia dei Georgofili (Florence) and of the International Association for Biomonitoring of Environmental Pollution (IABEP). In 2015 he was awarded the Ordine del Cherubino by the University of Pisa. He retired in 2022 and, in 2025, was appointed Professor Emeritus by the Italian Minister of University and Research.
Born in 1951, Professor Giacomo Lorenzini obtained his Laurea Degree (cum laude) in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Pisa in 1974. He began his academic career at the same University in 1981 as a Research Assistant in Plant Pathology and was a visiting scientist at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, in 1983. In 1987 he was appointed Associate Professor of Crop Protection, and from 2000 to 2022 he served as Full Professor of Plant Pathology at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa.
Throughout his career, he held several major academic and institutional positions, including Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (2001–2003), Head of the Agro-environmental Research Centre of the University of Pisa (2005–2009), and Director of the “Leonardo” Institute for Research on Territory and Environment (2005–2006). He was an elected member of the Academic Senate of the University of Pisa for the 2016–2020 term. In 2018 he founded and became the first Director of CIRSEC, the Centre for Climate Change Impact of the University of Pisa, and in 2021 he promoted and directed the University Master Course on Sustainable Development and Climate Change.
Professor Lorenzini carried out continuous teaching activity for over forty years, delivering courses in Plant Pathology and related disciplines. For ten years he served as Dean of the Laurea Degree Programme in Management of Urban Vegetation and Landscape.
His research activity has primarily addressed crop protection, the impact of air pollution on plant life —particularly the molecular mechanisms underlying responses to ozone — and the biological monitoring of air quality. He is the inventor of a patented method for tropospheric ozone biomonitoring based on a miniaturized kit using tobacco germlings, which has been officially adopted by national environmental agencies in air quality monitoring programmes. He has served as National Delegate in several European working groups focused on the effects of air pollution on vegetation. His scientific achievements are widely recognized at the international level, with more than 4,100 citations and an h-index of 35 (Scopus, January 2026). He has acted as principal investigator in numerous research projects and has been the organizer of many scientific events, including major international conferences.
Professor Lorenzini is an Honorary Member of the Accademia dei Georgofili (Florence) and of the International Association for Biomonitoring of Environmental Pollution (IABEP). In 2015 he was awarded the Ordine del Cherubino by the University of Pisa. He retired in 2022 and, in 2025, was appointed Professor Emeritus by the Italian Minister of University and Research.
Teaching
Teaching activity
Teaching responsibility for modules/courses
- Patologia vegetale (cod. 446GG) per Laurea in Scienze agrarie
Incarichi di co-docenza in moduli/insegnamenti
- L¿agenda 2030 e Gli Obiettivi per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile (Cod. 1971Z) per Corso Singolo in Corso trasversale
Student consultation hours
Mode of office hours: Brevi domande che possono essere gestite via e-mail sono gradite. giacomo.lorenzini@unipi.it
Location: Normalmente: laboratorio di Patologia vegetale del DiSAAA-a, a san Piero a grado. In alternativa: a distanza su piattaforma Teams
Time: Sia per studenti sia per tutorato: dal lunedì al venerdì, previo appuntamento per posta elettronica giacomo.lorenzini@unipi.it
Research
Publications
- SoilTech innovations for sustainable soil and food security (Risoli, Samuele; Turetta, Francesca; Leonardi, Matteo; Serfati, Andrea; Lorenzini, Giacomo; Costanzo, Enrico - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Using leaf hyperspectral data to early detect flavescence dorée before the onset of symptoms in a heavily affected vineyard of Tuscany [Central Italy] (Carli, Marco; Pedrelli, Athos; Pippi, Lorenzo; Risoli, Samuele; Panattoni, Alessandra; Lorenzini, Giacomo; Pellegrini, Elisa; Nali, Cristina; Cotrozzi, Lorenzo - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Metabolomic insights on the response of winter wheat cultivars to Fusarium head blight infection and inoculation with a biocontrol strain in open field (Risoli, Samuele; García-Pérez, Pascual; Quaratiello, Giuseppe; Cotrozzi, Lorenzo; Sarrocco, Sabrina; Pellegrini, Elisa; Nali, Cristina; Lorenzini, Giacomo; Lucini, Luigi - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Alternative approaches to enhance sweet basil [Ocimum basilicum L.] essential oil: Improving composition, yield, and antifungal efficacy against Botrytis cinerea Pers. with monochromatic light and ozonated water (Scimone, Giulia; Lauria, Giulia; Pieracci, Ylenia; Cotrozzi, Lorenzo; Flamini, Guido; Nali, Cristina; Lorenzini, Giacomo; Pellegrini, Elisa; Pisuttu, Claudia; Landi, Marco - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Exogenous application of melatonin protects bean and tobacco plants against ozone damage by improving antioxidant enzyme activities, enhancing photosynthetic performance, and preventing membrane damage (Vougeleka, Vasiliki; Risoli, Samuele; Saitanis, Costas; Agathokleous, Evgenios; Ntatsi, Georgia; Lorenzini, Giacomo; Nali, Cristina; Pellegrini, Elisa; Pisuttu, Claudia - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- A Master’s Course Can Emphasize Circular Economy in Municipal Solid Waste Management: Evidence from the University of Pisa (Pisuttu, Claudia; Adducci, Francesca; Arena, Sofia; Bigongiali, Daniela; Callea, Liliangela; Carmignani, Paolo; Cavicchi, Alessio; Chianura, Mariagrazia; Ciulli, Luisa; Contaldo, Marianna; Cotrozzi, Lorenzo; D'Alessandro, Claudia; Ferrara, Annapia; Fiaccadori, Ivan; Gajda, Besmira; Guarnieri, Chiara; Landi, Marco; Lanini, Luca; Lomuto, Rocco Roberto; Lucente, Daniela; Lugli, Cristina; Maffei, Francesca; Marconi, Francesca; Micale, Silvia; Mignani, Chiara; Nali, Cristina; Pellegrini, Elisa; Scarongella, Vito; Tomasi, Sabrina; Vatteroni, Carolina; Lorenzini, Giacomo - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Ozone Treatment as an Approach to Induce Specialized Compounds in Melissa officinalis Plants (Scimone, Giulia; Giovanna Carucci, Maria; Risoli, Samuele; Pisuttu, Claudia; Cotrozzi, Lorenzo; Lorenzini, Giacomo; Nali, Cristina; Pellegrini, Elisa; Petersen, Maike - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Genetic differences among Ailanthus altissima collections across and outside Italy by a Citizen science approach and their susceptibility to the candidate mycoherbicide Verticillium dahliae Kleb. (Claudia Pisuttu,Tommaso Ganino,Margherita Rodolfi,Gian Piero Ricci,Giacomo Lorenzini,Cristina Nali,Elisa Pellegrini,Lorenzo Cotrozzi - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Genome Resources of Verticillium dahliae VdGL16: The Causal Agent of Vascular Wilt on the Invasive Species Ailanthus altissima (Claudia Pisuttu,Sabrina Sarrocco,Lorenzo Cotrozzi,Riccardo Baroncelli,Giacomo Lorenzini - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Significance of phenylpropanoid pathways in the response of two pomegranate cultivars to salinity and ozone stress (Antonella Calzone,Mariagrazia Tonelli,Lorenzo Cotrozzi,Giacomo Lorenzini,Cristina Nali,Elisa Pellegrini - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)