Enrico Alleva (born 16 August 1953 in

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) is an Italian ethologist. He has been president of the Società Italiana di Etologia (Italian Ethological Society) since 2008. After obtaining his degree in biological sciences at the Sapienza University of Rome (1975) with geneticist Giuseppe Montalenti, Alleva specialized in animal behaviour at the

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa The Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (commonly known in Italy as "la Normale") is a public university in Pisa and Florence, Tuscany, Italy, currently attended by about 600 undergraduate and postgraduate (PhD) students. It was founded in 1810 wi ...

(tutored by ). Alleva is a member of the scientific councils of ,

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, Legambiente,

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, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana "Giovanni Treccani",

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, CNR Department "Scienze della vita", and the Commissione Antartide. He is a corresponding member of the

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, Accademia Medica di Roma, and the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna. Alleva was awarded the "G. B. Grassi" prize of the Accademia dei Lincei and the Anokhin Medal of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. From 1990 until 2017 Alleva was the director of the Section of Behavioural Neurosciences of the

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(Rome), from 2017 to 2018 he directed the Reference Centre for Behavioural Sciences and Mental Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità). The Web of Science lists over 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals . He is the

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of the ''

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''. From 2022 he is the Vicepresident of the (Italian) Consiglio Superiore di Sanità. Alleva is also a well known scientific populariser, who has written ''Il tacchino termostatico'' (Theoria, 1990), ''Consigli a un giovane etologo'' (Theoria, 1994, with Nicoletta Tiliacos), and ''La mente animale'' (Einaudi, 2008) and is often invited to radio and television shows.

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