Enrico Alleva
Enrico Alleva (born 16 August 1953 in Rome, Italy) 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 (tutored by ). Alleva is a member of the scientific councils of , World Wide Fund for Nature, Legambiente, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana "Giovanni Treccani", Italian Space Agency, CNR Department "Scienze della vita", and the Commissione Antartide. He  is a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei, 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. Since 1990, Alleva is the director of the Section of Behavioural Neurosciences of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Rome). The Web of Science lists over 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals that have been cited almost 5000 times, with an h-index of 38. He is the editor-in-chief of the "Annali  dell'Istituto 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.