BIOGRAPHY
Moriz is a Crop and Soil Sciences Ph.D. student in the LEES lab pursuing a major in Ecology and a minor in Artificial Intelligence (AI). He is from far Northern Italy, completed his B.Sc. in Animal Sciences from Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands), and his M.Sc. in Wildlife Biology and Conservation from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (United States).
Moriz is a member of the Climate Crisis Commission, Small Mammal Specialist Group, and Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Additionally, he served as a natural site reviewer for the UNESCO World Heritage applications (2024 & 2025). He was selected to serve as the Project Group leader for two APECS (Association of Polar Early Career Scientists) project groups: Polar Earth Observation Database and Polar Weeks & Antarctica Day.
Moriz also serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for a dozen scientific journals on topics related to Ecological Informatics, Machine Learning, Spatial Predictions, Remote Sensing Image Processing, and Species Conservation and Management.