Leonardo Bianchini is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Tuscia, where he earned a PhD in 2021 and was a Research Assistant between 2021 and 2022 at the Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences. He is passionate about trees, arboriculture, and urban forestry, especially planning and management, with a particular focus on defects and biomechanics, up to and including soil disturbances such as
compaction. He has also worked on agro-forestry and agro-industrial residual biomass, which continues to be his main focus.
Prof. Andrea Colantoni is a Researcher of agricultural genetics at the Department of Agriculture and Forests, (DAFNE) of the University of Tuscia. His research topics are related to renewable energies and their application to small–medium-sized enterprises in the agro-forestry sector. His research interests include mechanization of some tree crops, mainly hazelnuts, industrial (industrial tomatoes) and fiber plant harvesting, security and quality for agro-food and agro-industrial chains, ergonomics and analysis
of the main workloads in agroforestry, work safety and risk assessment in agro-industrial working environments and energy in agriculture.
Prof. Dr. Rodolfo Picchio obtained a Forest Sciences degree and a Ph.D. in Forest Mechanization at Tuscia University, Viterbo. He began his career in 2004, working as a university researcher until 2014. Since then, he has been an Associate Professor in Forest Logging and Wood Technologies and led the Forest Utilization Research Work Group at Tuscia University (DAFNE). From 2015 to 2017, he served as the president of Conservation and Restoration of the Forest Environment and Soil Defense, a Master’s program at Tuscia University (DAFNE). Since 2018, he has served on the board of Tuscia University’s Ph.D. programs, including Science and Technologies for Forest and Environmental Management (2005–2013) and Engineering for Energy and Environment. His fields of expertise include forest operation engineering, forest logging, forest mechanization, precision forestry, wood technologies, and the environmental impacts of wood harvesting operations. He is also on the editorial boards of international scientific journals covering forestry and forest engineering subjects. He continues to be a participant in cost, life, horizon, and international cooperation projects, coordinating several EAFRD-funded rural development programs (RDPs). Furthermore, he is a member of the scientific Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology.
Dr. Valerio Di Stefano is an Academic Researcher and Adjunct Professor at the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Italy. His research interests include land use planning, urban sustainability, urban development, urban forestry, environmental and agricultural law and policies, renewable energies, ropework, knots and safety.
