Biography
Gianni Bellocchi was born in Acquapendente and spent formative years in San Lorenzo Nuovo, in province of Viterbo (Italy), near Lago di Bolsena. His parents, Giuseppe (born 1944) and Adriana (born 1946), are retired farmers. He attended at primary and middle schools in his village, and at agricultural high school in Bagnoregio. Starting in 1988, he studied agricultural sciences at the University of Pisa and at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa. He graduated in 1993 and got a PhD in 1997. He learned statistical data processing and modelling approaches from entomologist Fabio Quaglia, physicist Franco Martorana, and modellers Frits W.T. Penning de Vries (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) and Claudio O. Stockle (Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, U.S.). Gianni joined the staff of agronomy and agro-meteorology modelers of the Research Institute for Industrial Crops of Bologna in 1999, and developed a large number of scientific contributions under the leaderhsip of Marcello Donatelli. In 2006–2009 he was appointed contractual agent at European Commission - Joint Research Centre of Ispra, Italy. In 2010, he became senior scientist at French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Grassland Ecosystem Research Unit (UREP). In 2011, January 25, he got the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from Blaise Pascal University of Clermont-Ferrand (France). He joined as member of the Italian Society for Agronomy, the European Society for Agronomy, the American Society of Agronomy, and the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society. He is also affiliated to the Monte Pino Met European Research Observatory.
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