Italian ethologist (born 1953)

Enrico Alleva (born 16 August 1953 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian ethologist. He has been president of the Società Italiana di Etologia (Italian Ethological Society) since 2008.

After obtaining his degree in biological sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome (1975) with geneticist Giuseppe Montalenti, Alleva specialized in animal behaviour at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (tutored by Floriano Papi:). Alleva is a member of the scientific councils of Agenzia per la protezione dell'ambiente e per i servizi tecnici:, World Wide Fund for Nature, Legambiente, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Is*uto della Enciclopedia Italiana "Giovanni Treccani", Italian Space Agency, CNR Department "Scienze della vita", and the Commissione Antartide. He is a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei, Accademia Medica di Roma, and the Academy of Sciences of the Ins*ute of Bologna. Alleva was awarded the "G. B. Gr*i" prize of the Accademia dei Lincei and the Anokhin Medal of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

Since 1990, Alleva is the director of the Section of Behavioural Neurosciences of the Is*uto Superiore di Sanità (Rome). The Web of Science lists over 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals that have been cited almost 5000 times, with an h-index of 38. He is the editor-in-chief of the Annali dell'Is*uto Superiore di Sanità.

Alleva is also a well known scientific populariser, who has written Il tacchino termostatico (Theoria, 1990), Consigli a un giovane etologo (Theoria, 1994, with Nicoletta Tiliacos), and La mente animale (Einaudi, 2008) and is often invited to radio and television shows.

References

External links

• Official website
• Section of Behavioural Neurosciences, Is*uto Superiore di Sanità