Claudio Leonzio
Professor
Department of Physical sciences, Earth and environment
University of Siena
Italy
Biography
Claudio Leonzio is Full Professor of Ecology in the Department of Physics, Earth and Environmental Sciences of the University of Siena. Since 1976 he actively worked on heavy metals and organochlorine compounds distribution in the marine environment of the Mediterranean area and in particular on the dinamic accumulation of mercury in the trophic chain in relation to the anomalies of Mediterranean area. Later these studies have been focused on birds with long-term monitoring studies of population of marine species evaluating both residues and biomarkers, particularly mixed function oxidases system. A particular aspect of mercury contamination was investigated through the interelationship between mercury and selenium as phenomenon of antagonism and detoxification. This research was conducted on birds and more recently on marine mammals as well as in experimental animals. He is teaching Ecology, Environmental Impact assessment and Conservation of Nature. He is author of more than 100 papers in international scientific journals as well as many articles in italian language and comunications to scientific congresses. Claudio Leonzio is member of several Scientific nstitutions: Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), European Cetacean Society (ECS), Italian Society of Ecology (SITE), Italian Society of Marine Biology (SIBM).
Research Interest
All his Research activities is in Environmnental Sciences & engineering.
