At the end of May 2024, Lisa Tedeschi successfully defended her joint PhD thesis at Sapienza University of Rome. The thesis is titled “The ecology of alien mammals: distribution, impacts, and threats”, and she was supervised by Franz Essl (University of Vienna) and Carlo Rondinini (Sapienza University of Rome).
Some deserved celebrations.
Lisa had written three publications to achieve her joint PhD degree, including a review on invasive alien mammals of Union Concern, a study on propagule pressure and spread dynamics of alien mammals in Europe, and a thought-provoking study investigating alien populations of mammals that are threatened in their native range (currently in review in Conservation Letters).
During her PhD, she also collaborated with colleagues from the University of Vienna and from Sapienza University of Rome. She participated in a perspective on the role of biological invasions in sustainable development, a short communication on Reeves’ Muntjacs Reeves’ Muntjacs in Austria (paper #10), and in a perspective on the effects of the Ukraine conflict on biodiversity.
When presenting her last PhD thesis chapter, Lisa won the award for “Best talk” given by a young scientist at NEOBIOTA 2024 in Lisbon!
