Pia Parolin(born 24 August 1965 in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy) is a biologist and tropical ecologist, council member of the Society for Tropical Ecology (gtö) and Membership Coordinator of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC).
Her scientific work is focussed on the Amazon river and its floodplains and other tropical forest and wetland regions, on questions involving ecology and biological conservation.
Her work was based at the Evolutionary Biology in Plön Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology / (Germany) and the National Institute of Amazonian Research - INPA in Manaus (Brazil), and is currently based at the University of Nice Côte d´Azur (France) and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research - INRA (France).
Here, she analyzes alternatives to pesticides in biological pest control.
Besides being a passionate biologist, she is a photographer and won the Poster Prize "Prix de l'Affiche" at Photomenton, in November 2017, and several international prizes.
She published several books, among it “Promenade(s)” by Maison d'Edition Baie des Anges, Nice.
She organizes photography workshops on the French Riviera and enjoys the intellectual exchange between artists and people of all kinds.
You can find more about her work on the website www.piaparolin.com.