Roberto Cazzolla Gatti is Associate Professor of Conservation Biology and Biodiversity at the Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy, since 2021, where he is also a member of the BIOME – Biodiversity and Macroecology Lab. 

He is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist, with a PhD in Forest Ecology (2013) from the University of Tuscia (Viterbo), Italy. His research interests are planetary health and ecosystems, biodiversity (plant and animal) and protection of the global environment, placing himself at the interface between ecology, ethology and evolution. From 2015 to 2021, he was Associate Professor of the Institute of Biology and coordinator of the Master's Degree in Biodiversity at Tomsk State University (TSU), in Russia. He has also worked as Associate Professor at the UniLaSalle Polytechnic University of Rouen (France), Senior Research Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (Austria), Associate Researcher at the Department of Natural and Forestry Sciences at Purdue University (USA) and Visiting Professor at Beijing Forestry University (China).

He is a member of the IUCN and the Society for Conservation Biology and was also a CMCC researcher and consultant to FAO and WWF.