Marco Vannini is Professor of Invertebrate Zoology

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

 at the Department of Evolutionary Biology L. Pardi of the University of Florence

University of Florence

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. He has been the Director of the above Department from 1989 to 1992 and the Director of the Museum of Zoology of the University of Florence

University of Florence

The University of Florence is a higher study institute in Florence, central Italy. One of the largest and oldest universities in the country, it consists of 12 faculties...

, from 1992 to 2003. He is member of the coordination board of Doctorate in Ethology and Ecology, at the University of Florence

University of Florence

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, member of the Centre for the Study of Tropical Faunistics and Ecology of CNR

CNR

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, from 1970 to 2003. He is the author of about 120 papers on international journals of zoology

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

, ethology

Ethology

Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a sub-topic of zoology....

, marine biology

Marine biology

Marine biology is the scientific study of organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather...

 and marine ecology.

Research topics : behaviour and biology of crustacean

Crustacean

Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...

 decapods, ecology

Ecology

Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...

 and population genetics

Genetics

Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....

 of Indo-pacific mangrove fauna, ecology of tropical and Mediterranean rocky shores, problems of biodiversity and conservation

Since 1970 he has organized - or participated to - about 45 research expeditions in several sites of the Western Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...

, mostly in Somalia

Somalia

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 and Kenya

Kenya

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