Matteo Dal Zotto currently works at the Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, and at the Consortium for the Interuniversity Center of Marine Biology and Applied Ecology, Leghorn, Italy. Matteo does research in Systematics (Taxonomy), Ecology and Biomonitoring of meiofaunal organisms, and in Monitoring and Conservation of avifauna and herpetofauna.