Davide Persico

Davide Persico is an Associate Professor at the University of Parma, affiliated with the Department of Chemical, Life and Environmental Sustainability Sciences. He teaches courses including Global Climate Change, Naturalistic Museology, and Paleobiology across Bachelor's and Master's programs in Natural and Environmental Sciences and Ecology and Ethology for Nature Conservation.

• Academic Rank: Associate Professor
• Department: Chemical, Life and Environmental Sustainability Sciences
• Teaching: Global Climate Change (Master's), Naturalistic Museology (Master's), Paleobiology (Bachelor's)

His research focuses on ecology, environmental science, paleontology, and climate change. Recent work examines predator-prey dynamics (Italian wolves), calcareous plankton evolution, and the Messinian salinity crisis in the Mediterranean.

Publications highlight interdisciplinary approaches blending geology, ecosystem services, and molecular ecology, with fieldwork in the Po Plain and Southern Pacific Ocean. Collaborative projects span biodiversity conservation and paleoclimatology.