Curriculum Vitae ALESSANDRA SORESINA. Marital status: unmarried Tel:

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1 Curriculum Vitae ALESSANDRA SORESINA Born in Milan on the 8/11/73, Italy Address: Via Aleardi 14, 20154,Milan, Italy Marital status: unmarried Tel: italian citizenship EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MILAN 07/1990 GCSE exams in English, French, Italian, Maths, Geography, History, Biology, Chemistry and Physics IB exam in English 07/1992 A levels in Biology, Chemistry, Maths and Italian. UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO 1999 Degree in Biology, zoological specialisation Full marks Final thesis: Space utilisation and reproductive strategies of male Fallow deer (Dama dama). MAIN PROFESSIONAL FIELDS: wildlife biology, photography, writing, skiing (ski instructor), dairyfarming FIELD AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES Tenuta di S. Rossore, Pisa, Italy in collaboration with Università degli Studi di pisa radio-tracking of Fallow deer: movements of males movements of females reproductive strategies (lek)

2 2000 Collaborated in the activation of the projects Barca Pulita in Australia and Just One Planet in Tanzania promoted by Fondo per la terra 07/ /2000 Saadani Game Reserve and Mkwaja Ranch, Tanzania. responsible of a mammal monitoring programme promoted by Fondo per la Terra 2000 Responsible of ecovolunteer stages for Italian and foreign students in Saadani Game Reserve, Tanzania Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, responsible of the Tarangire Lion Project Project objectives: assessment of the effects of the tourist-hunting taking place within the surrounding areas of the National Park, on the population of lions (Panthera leo) residing inside the protected area characterisation of the population dynamics, through photo identification techniques The project is finalised to the conservation of the lion population of the Park through a deep collaboration with the local institutions 2006 Snow Leopard Project, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal Project objectives: This research has the aim to estimate and monitor the snow leopard population in Sagarmatha National Park Preliminary survey in Machangulo Reserve, Mozambique.

3 BOOKS PUBLISHED 2007 A piedi nudi (Pendragon Edizioni), autobiographic book on my african experience,followed by various book launches in major italian cities Un giorno da leoni (Piemme Edizioni) PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS SOLOS 2006 Ritratti di animali- LP- Cortina d Ampezzo, Africa - Castello di Tagliolo, Tagliolo Monferrato 2007 A piedi nudi - Atellani, Milano 2008 A piedi nudi Fondazione Mazzotta, Milano Teatro Barrios, Milano Mondaori, Crema Aemilia Hotel, Bologna COLLECTIVES 2009 Sfumature di verde Museo di Milano PHOTOGRAPHIC AND LITTERATURE AWARDS AND PRICES 2006 finalist at the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007 finalist at the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 Novel A piedi nudi wins third price in litterature award Edoardo Kihlgren Opera Prima

4 PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATIONS Collaborated with the Italian ONLUS Fondo per la terra, Earth Fund provided wildlife contents for the website and for other Italian portals (iol, jumpy) chairman for a cycle of conferences kept by the Onlus Earth Fund chairman for a cycle of conferences on Lions in Italy and abroad provided all contents and helped in the construction of the website Collaboration with University of Minnesota, USA for the radiocollaring of lions in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania Collaboration with Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy for the setting up of the snow leopard project in Sagarmmatha National Park, Nepal Ski instructor for the Azzurra Ski School in Cortina d Ampezzo, Italy COMMERCIALS 2009 Ultramotor Steiner MAGAZINE COLLABORATIONS (as photographer and writer) 1999 Wild Terra La macchina del Tempo La macchina del Tempo Oasis 2005 Amici di casa, In-sight hunting

5 2007 Airone TV PROGRAMS COLLABORATIONS (as wildlife biologist) Campo Base (National Geographic Channel) Verissimo (Canale 5) In Famiglia (Rai 2) Il Pianeta delle Meraviglie (Rai 3) German television (2DF) 2004 La macchina del tempo (Rete 4) 2008 vivo per miracolo (LA7) COURSES year course to become ski instructor 1998 Specialisation course on tropical marine biology promoted by Shark Sub, Milano Course on the management of a dairy herd and artificial insemination procedures INFORMATIC KNOWLEDGE Windows and Mac system and internet procedures mapping software Map viewer, Garmin and of GPS systems. Other softwares: Vortex for PVA (Population Viability Analysis) GIS software Arc view and of Animal Movement Cincinnato (dairyfarming software) Alpro (dairyfarming software)

6 LANGUAGES SPOKEN Italian first language English French Basic knowledge of the Ki-Swahili language.