Team

Alberto Canarini is Associate Professor of Soil Ecology and Biogeochemistry at the University of Bologna. His research focuses on soil microbial ecology, carbon and nutrient cycling, and ecosystem responses to climate extremes. He leads the ERC Starting Grant project EcoMEMO, investigating ecological memory of drought in soil microbial communities and its implications for ecosystem functioning under climate change.

My research explores how climate change and environmental stressors regulate microbial community responses and their feedbacks to ecosystem functioning. During my PhD, I investigated how the magnitude and duration of warming shape bacterial community structure and nitrogen cycling potential.

Within the ERC project EcoMEMO at the University of Bologna, I focus on how precipitation history influences soil microbial responses to drought and the consequences for carbon and nutrient cycling in Mediterranean ecosystems. My work contributes to understanding the role of ecological memory in shaping ecosystem resilience under increasing climate extremes.

My research investigates how extreme drought events affect soil microbial community structure and functioning, and how these changes influence key soil ecosystem processes. Within the EcoMEMO project, I aim to understand how climate extremes reshape microbial dynamics and alter carbon and nutrient cycling, contributing to a broader understanding of ecosystem responses to global change.

My research aims to understand how environmental change shapes soil microbial communities and their functional potential. I combine amplicon sequencing and metagenomic approaches to link microbial taxonomic structure with ecosystem-relevant functions. Within EcoMEMO, my work contributes to uncovering how shifts in microbial diversity translate into changes in biogeochemical processes under climate stress.