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I was borne in Rome on the 9th June 1962. In 1989 I was graduated in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Viterbo
(Italy) with first honour class. I worked as a full-time research scientist from 1992 to 2004. Actually I am associate
professor in soil chemistry at the University of Reggio Calabria (Italy), Department of Biotechnology for Monitoring in the
Agrifood industry and in the Environment (BIOMAA). My academic and scientific activity deals with soil chemistry,
biochemistry and microbiology. The research activity is focussed on: (i) the impact of differing soil management regimes
and anthropogenic disturbance on soil microbial diversity and ecosystem functioning; (ii) soil responses to the use of
composted agricultural wastes. Side research lines are: (i) soil-pesticides interactions, (ii) regulatory action of soil humic
substances on plant mineral nutrition. Original research on soil microbial ecology was carried out as a visiting scientist in
qualified European laboratories, as the Biological Department at the University of Kent in Canterbury (UK) under the
supervision of Prof. R.G. Burns, and the Soil Biotechnology Laboratory at the Research Institute for Plant Protection in
Wageningen (NL), under the supervision of Prof. J.D. van Elsas. In the frame of COST Action 831 (Biotechnology of soil:
Monitoring, Conservation and Remediation) I attended as a national delegate the scientific meetings of the Working Group
4 (Microbiological and biochemical methods to determine environmental impact). My research activity is documented by
numerous papers appeared on international and national journals or published as proceedings in national and international
congresses. Past reader in Analytical chemistry and Inorganic chemistry, since many years I am reader in Chimistry of
Fertilizers and in Soil Chemistry. I am member of national (SICA, SISS) and international (ISSS) soil science societies.
Selected publications
Pusino A., Gelsomino A., Fiori M.G., Gessa C. (2003). Adsorption of two quinolinecarboxylic acid herbicides on
homoionic montmorillonites. Clays Clay Miner. 51 (2): 143-149.
Lulli L., Gelsomino A., Badalucco L., Vecchio G., Bolignano M.S., Martelli G., Cacco G. (2003). Chemical, biochemical
and molecular indicators for assessing microbial diversity through an organic soil profile. Annual Symposium of British
Ecological Society: Biological Diversity and Function in Soils, 25-27 March 2003, Lancaster, UK.
Crecchio C., Gelsomino A., Ambrosoli R., Minati J.L., Ruggiero P. (2004). Functional and molecular responses of soil
microbial communities under differing soil management practices. Soil Biol. Biochem. 36 (11): 1873-1883.
Renella G., Mench M., Gelsomino A., Landi L., Nannipieri P. (2005). Functional activity and microbial community
structure in soils amended with bimetallic sludges. Soil Biol. Biochem. 37: 1498-1506.
Cacco G., Gelsomino A. (2005). Suolo e ambiente. In: P. Sequi (Coord.), Fondamenti di Chimica del Suolo, Pàtron Editore,
Bologna, pp. 515-540.
Gelsomino A., Cacco G. (2006). Compositional shifts of bacterial groups in a solarized and amended soil as determined by
denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Soil Biol. Biochem. 38: 91-102.
Gelsomino A., Badalucco L., Landi L., Cacco G. (2006). Soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics as affected by
solarization alone or combined with organic amendment. Plant and Soil. 279: 307-325.
Gelsomino A., Badalucco L., Ambrosoli R., Crecchio C., Puglisi E., Meli S.M. (2006). Changes in chemical and biological
soil properties as induced by anthropogenic disturbance: a case study of an agricultural soil under recurrent flooding by
wastewaters. Soil Biol. Biochem. 38: 2069-2080.
Mench M., Renella G., Gelsomino A., Landi L., Nannipieri P. (2006). Biochemical parameters and bacterial species
richness in soils contaminated by sludge-borne metals and remediated with inorganic soil amendments. Environ. Pollut.
144: 24-31.
Gelsomino A., Milea D., Cacco G. (2006). Chemical and bacterial community responses in three contrasting soils after
compost amendment in a mesocosm experiment. 11th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology - ISME 11. August
20-25, 2006, Vienna, Austria.
Tesi R., Gelsomino A., Baldi A., Lenzi A., Peruzzi A. (2007). Soil disinfection with steam alone or combined with CaO in a
greenhouse radish crop. Advances in Horticultural Science 21: 75-82.