2023 – 2025 University of Montpellier, CEFE, France Postdoctoral Associate with Luis-Miguel Chevin, Guillaume Martin, Emanuel A. Fronhofer Project ComplexAdapat: "How does the complexity if environmental challenges affect the rate of adaptation? A meta-experimental evolution approach by the ExpEvolOcc network"
2021 – 2023 CNRS, ISEM, France Postdoctoral Associate with Oliver Kaltz Project FEEDME: "Feedbacks between epidemiology and evolution in spatially complex host-parasite metapopulations"
2019 – 2020 CNRS, ISEM, France SNSF Early PostDoc Mobility Fellow with Oliver Kaltz Project: "Experimental evolution of virulence in spatially dynamic landscapes"
2013 – 2018 University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Doctoral studies in Ecology and Epidemiology of Parasites with Jacob C. Koella PhD thesis: "Co-evolution between mosquitoes and microsporidian transmission strategies"
2011 – 2013 Imperial College London, UK - University of Padua, Italy MSc in Evolutionary Biology with Chris Wilson and Andrea Pilastro
2008 – 2011 University of Padua, Italy BSc in Biology with Fabio Gasparini and Giovanna Zaniolo
Teaching
2014-2017 Teaching assistant: “Embryology”, practice in animal developmental biology (BSc), 4 days of a 4-week block course.
2014-2017 Teaching assistant: “Evolutionary Ecology”, main questions in evolutionary ecology (BSc), 10 teaching units.
2014-2017 Teaching assistant: “Experimental Parasitology”, mentoring and development of experiments (MSc), 5 days of a 6 weeks full day block course and practice.
2014-2016 Teaching assistant: “Problem Based Learning”, mentoring and practice (BSc), 5 days of a 6 weeks full day block course and practice.
MSc and BSc student mentoring
2023 João Gabriel Colares Silveira: “Understanding evolutionary adaptation to multiple stressors” (MSc Candidate, Erasmus Mundus MEME M1), Co-Advisor (with E. A. Fronhofer), University of Montpellier, France. 2022 Raina Manasven: “Consequences of dispersal evolution on the spread of a parasite epidemic” (MSc Candidate, Erasmus Mundus MEME M1), Co-Advisor (with O. Kaltz), University of Montpellier, France.
2021 Sanchez Charléne: “Experimental evolution: parasite virulence (Holospora undulata), host density and dispersal (Paramecium caudatum)” (MSc Candidate, DIPHE M2), Co-Advisor (with O. Kaltz), University of Montpellier, France.
2019 Petrucci Giovanni: “Should I stay or should I go? Genetic variation in dispersal plasticity of a protozoan challenged by a parasite” (MSc Candidate, Erasmus Mundus MEME M1), Co-Advisor (with O. Kaltz), University of Montpellier, France.
2017 Lea Moesch: “Plasticity in recombination rate of the yellow fever mosquito to parasite infection” (MSc Candidate), Co-Advisor (with J.C. Koella), ETHZ, Zurich and University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
2016 Nathalie Bovet: “Effect of the infection of Vavraia culicis on the recombination rate of Aedes aegyti” (MSc Candidate), Co-Advisor (with J.C. Koella), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
2015 Losada Naiara: “Age-dependent oviposition response of the mosquito Aedes aegyti to infected conspecific larvae” (MSc Candidate), Co-Advisor (with J.C. Koella), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Grants and fellowships
2019 – 2020 SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility “Experimental evolution of virulence in spatially dynamic landscapes” Awarded to Zilio G. Research grant: CHF 3,000.– p.a.; Travel grant: CHF 2,000.– p.a.; Fellowship: CHF 45,000.– p.a.; total: CHF 75,000
2018 Prix Jean-Georges Baer, excellent PhD thesis in parasitology, University of Neuchâtel Awarded to Zilio G. Funds: CHF 1,000.
2017 Travel grant of the Interuniversity doctoral program in organismal biology, University of Neuchâtel Awarded to Zilio G. Travel grant: CHF 450.
2013 Erasmus scholarship, MSc exchange student, University of Padua, Italy - Imperial College London, United Kingdom. Awarded to Zilio G. Funds: EUR 2,100.