I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Camerino (UNICAM) and an Honorary Research Fellow at Murdoch University. I have a broad interest in vegetation classification, mapping, and applying functional approaches at different spatial scales to the conservation and restoration of plant communities. In my role at UNICAM I have created an R package to analyse within-community diversity using spatial scaling techniques. In my current role at UNICAM, I am analysing long-term monitoring of forest understory diversity for changes with changing levels of atmospheric nitrogen deposition.