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Trained in medical botany at the University of Pisa, Andrea Pieroni earned his doctorate from the University of Bonn in Germany. He has worked as a Research Assistant at the University of London (2000-2003) and as a tenured Lecturer and, later, Senior Lecturer at the University of Bradford in northern England (2003-2009). From January 2009 he was hired as Professor of Ethnobotany in Pollenzo, where he was also Rector from 2017 to 2021. Professor Pieroni has served as the Vice-President and President of the International Society of Ethnobiology (2008-2010). He is the founder and Chief Editor of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (ethnobiomed.com) and sits on the boards of diverse international peer-reviewed journals.

His research focuses on foraging (wild food plants gathering) among minorities in the Mediterranean, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and especially in the Greater Middle East.

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