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Portrait: Luca Montanarella

1978-1984 Study of Agriculture Sciences at the University of Perugia, graduated in agricultural engineering at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Perugia, Italy;

1978-1984 Study of Agriculture Sciences at the University of Perugia, graduated in agricultural engineering at 1984-1985 post-doctoral study at the Centre for Biopharmaceutical Sciences, University of Leiden, The Netherlands,

1986 Visiting Scientist at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, The Netherlands;

1986-1991 Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography Specialist at Varian Associates, Palo Alto, USA. 1991-1992 principal administrator at the Italian Ministry of Agriculture

Since 1992 scientific officer at the Commission of the European Communities, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy; 1992-1995 working as Head of the Organic Reference Laboratory, Environment Institute, JRC; 1995-2000 Head of the European Soil Bureau project, Space Applications Institute, MARS unit; 2001-2003 Head of the European Soil Bureau project, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Soil and Waste unit, JRC.

Since 2003 he is the head of the new JRC action “Soil Data and Information Systems” (SOIL), now it is renamed in SOIL. Numerous scientific publications. Main interests are: Soil Databases, GIS, soil protection, land degradation.


Action Leader
Luca Montanarella

Contact details:
Position: Action Leader in SOIL
Competences: Action Leader
Unit: Land Resource Management/ SOIL action
Phone: +39 0332 / 785349
Fax: +39 0332 / 786394
Email: luca.montanarella(at)jrc.ec.europa.eu


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