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Alan Crivellaro (born 1 September 1980) is an Italian wood biologist and professor at the University of Torino (IT).

Life
Alan Crivellaro was born in Pordenone, Italy. Between 1999 and 2007, he studied wood science and forestry at the University of Padova. He completed his PhD in Ecology in 2011 at the University of Padova (co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Fritz H. Schweingruber ). From 2001 to 2007, he was a research assistant at the former Trees and Timber Institute of the Italian National Research Council (now IBE-CNR ). From 2011 to 2015, he was a Postdoc in plant stem anatomy, followed by research stays at the Oregon State University in Corvallis (USA) and the WSL in Brismensdorf (CH). From 2015 to 2018, Alan Crivellaro was an Assistant Professor in Wood Science at the University of Padova. From 2017 to 2022, he lived in Cambridge (UK) and was a visiting scholar and then an associate researcher at the Department of Geography of the University of Cambridge. While in Cambridge, we worked as a tourist guides on a river boat called Punts. In 2022, he became a professor of wood science at the University of Torino (IT).

In 2020, annoyed by the low quality of online presentations delivered during endless online meetings, which marked the stay-at-home COVID-19 era, Alan Crivellaro created the Presenting Scientist initiative to support scientists in delivering better presentations.

Research interests

 * Ecological plant stem anatomy
 * Macroscopic and microscopic wood identification
 * The ecology of plant cell wall lignification
 * Wood properties of shrubs