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Alessandro Massolo serves as an Adjunct Professor in Wildlife Health Ecology within the Department of Ecosystem and Public Health at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, and holds an Associate Member position in the Wildlife Health & Ecology Research Group.
His academic credentials include:
- Bachelor and Master of Science in Animal Biology from Pisa University, Italy (1995)
- Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology from Siena University, Italy (2000)
- Post-Doctoral studies in Zoology from Florence University, Italy (2005)
As a wildlife ecologist, Dr. Massolo specializes in the ecology and behavioral ecology of medium-large vertebrates, particularly terrestrial mammals. His interdisciplinary research spans ecosystem health, epidemiology, wildlife and zoo medicine, physiology, applied mathematics, information technologies, and allergology. He has developed significant expertise in biostatistics and ecological modeling to address complex wildlife health challenges through spatial analysis and mathematical frameworks.
No scientific awards or honors were specified in the available documentation.
Dr. Massolo mentors undergraduate and graduate students globally through his laboratory and hosts international visiting scholars. His teaching portfolio includes principles and advanced biostatistics since 1995, along with general biology and ecological statistics. At the University of Calgary, he currently instructs three graduate courses—Spatial Analysis in Ecology and Epidemiology, Research Design, and One-Health—as well as the undergraduate course Ecosystem and Public Health.
He founded the Wildlife Ecology and Spatial Epidemiology Lab (WEASEL), featuring a wildlife biology wet lab and GIS laboratory, and co-founded the interdisciplinary Wildlife Disease Ecology Group (iWEG) to advance collaborative research and education across veterinary medicine, public health, and environmental sciences.
