A plant ecologist by training, I bring 8+ years of research experience from various European scientific settings. My daily practice involves the integrated application of advanced R programming, machine learning, and GIS to effectively address my research questions.

Computer Skills

Programming Languages & Environments:

  • R (The mail tool I use for data science & analysis)
    • Data management in SQL (DBI) and manipulation (tidyverse)
    • Statistical analyses and modeling (including Machine Learning with tidymodels)
    • MLOps (vetiver)
    • Data visualization (e.g., ggplot, leaflet, plotly)
    • Spatial data analysis:
      • GIS / Simple Features (sf)
      • Raster Data (terra)
  • mySQL (Data management and Manipulation)
  • R Markdown (Creating dynamic reports and documentations)
  • Quarto (Developing websites and presentations)
  • Git & GitHub (Repository management & collaboration)
  • LaTeX (Document typesetting)

Education & Employment History




  • Postdoctoral fellow (2024 - current) at MOBI lab - Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic);

  • Researcher (III level) (2023) at CNR-IRET - National Research Council of Italy, Pisa (Italy);

  • Postdoctoral fellow (2021 - 2023) at the Vegetation Science Group of the Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic);

  • PhD in Mountain Environment & Agriculture (2017 - 2021) cum laude at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano (Italy). Thesis title: “Meta-analyses upon the intraspecific plant trait variability within the environmental and geographic space” (supervisor: Camilla Wellstein);
    Visiting PhD student (2020, 6 months) at the Antonelli Lab, Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre - University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg (Sweden);

  • MSc Environmental Science (2015 - 2017) at Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen (The Netherlands). MSc thesis at the ESA group: “Plant biodiversity loss following increased atmospheric nitrogen deposition: A systematic review” (supervisors: Wim De Vries; Rob Alkemade);
    Intern (MSc Internship)     (2017, 4 months) at Forest & Nature Lab – Department of Forest and Water Management – Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium);

  • BSc Forest Science (2011 - 2014) at University of Turin, Turin (Italy) cum laude. Thesis title (in Italian): “Redox reactions in the soil and their environmental significance” (supervisor: Franco Ajmone Marsan).

Lead Author Scientific Publications

Midolo, G., Skokanová, H., Clark, A. T., Vymazalová, M., Chytrý, M., Dullinger, S., … & Keil, P. (2025) Nineteenth-century land use shapes the current occurrence of some plant species, but weakly affects the richness and total composition of Central European grasslands. Landscape Ecology, 40(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-02016-6

Midolo, G. (2024) Plant functional traits couple with range size and shape in European trees Global Ecology and Biogeography, e13838. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13838

Midolo, G., Axmanová, I., Divíšek, J., Dřevojan, P., Lososová, Z., Večeřa, M., … & Chytrý, M. (2024). Diversity and distribution of Raunkiær’s life forms in European vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science, 35(1), e13229. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13229

Midolo, G., Mendez-Castro, F. & Ottaviani, G. (2023) Why studying the response of trait coordination to insularity matters? Journal of Biogeography, 00, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/JBI.14706

Midolo, G., Herben, T., Axmanová, I., Marcenò, C., Pätsch, R., Bruelheide, H., … & Chytrý, M. (2022). Disturbance indicator values for European plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(1), 24-34. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13603

Midolo, G., Kuss, P., & Wellstein, C. (2021). Land use and water availability drive community-level plant functional diversity of grasslands along a temperature gradient in the Swiss Alps. Science of The Total Environment, 764, 142888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142888

Midolo, G., Wellstein, C., & Faurby, S. (2021). Individual fitness is decoupled from coarse‐scale probability of occurrence in North American trees. Ecography, 44(5), 789-801. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05446

Midolo, G., & Wellstein, C. (2020). Plant performance and survival across transplant experiments depend upon temperature and precipitation change along elevation. Journal of Ecology, 108(5), 2107-2120 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13387

Midolo, G., De Frenne, P., Hölzel, N., & Wellstein, C. (2019). Global patterns of intraspecific leaf trait responses to elevation. Global Change Biology, 25(7), 2485–2498. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14646

Midolo, G., Alkemade, R., Schipper, A. M., Benítez‐López, A., Perring, M. P., & de Vries, W. (2019). Impacts of nitrogen addition on plant species richness and abundance: A global meta‐analysis. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28(3), 398–413. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12856