Roberto Mantovani

Full professor in Animal breeding and genetics
Tel +39 049 8272661
Fax +39 049 8272633
E-mail roberto.mantovani@unipd.it

Curriculum vitae

• Full professor in Animal breeding and genetics (2011- )
• Vice President at the Horse Commission of the European Association of Animal Production (EAAP; 2020-)
• Member of the Commission for the Supervision of Teaching Quality (CPQD; Quality assurance system at the University of Padua; 2021-)
• Expert at Italian Ministry of Agriculture for the genetic improvement of small autochthonous cattle breeds (2001- ) and the Italian Heavy Draught Horse breed (2003- )
• Researcher and Associate Professor (1993-2011) at University of Padua.
• PhD in Animal Science (1990-1993)

Teachings:

• Horse breeding, feeding, and management (BSc)
• Origin and traceability of animal species (BSc)
• Basic Statistics (BSc)
• Advances statistics with R: experimental design in lab and field (PhD)

Research areas:

• Genomic applied to genetic improvement of small cattle breeds and to livestock production
• In situ conservation of small cattle and horse populations
• Genetics of milk, meat, and linear type traits in cattle
• Genetics, breeding, and management of equine small populations.

Publications:
https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=oyneB3gAAAAJ&hl=it