Alessandra Gorlier earned her Ph.D. in “Sustainable Pasture and Forage Systems for Land Management and Animal Product Quality” from the University of Florence (Italy), and her 5-year degree in “Forestry and Environmental Sciences” from the University of Turin (Italy). For fifteen years, she worked with the Grassland Ecology and Management group at the University of Turin’s Department of Agricultural, Forest, and Food Sciences, contributing to national and international research projects and conducting studies on grassland communities and grazing management in the Alps. During this period, she taught “Agronomy and Forage Sciences” for five years at the College of Veterinary Sciences and delivered seminars on “Grassland Classification and Mapping” at the College of Agriculture (University of Turin). She also served as a visiting scholar at the University of California-Berkeley (USA) and the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), where she carried out research on vegetation dynamics and monitoring.

Since 2018, Alessandra Gorlier has been a Research Scientist IV at the University of Arizona (USA). Her work focuses primarily on long-term vegetation studies at the Santa Rita Experimental Range, part of the Arizona Experiment Station network. She oversees the maintenance of the range’s long-term databases and manages the Santa Rita Experimental Range website. In 2019, she also served as a co-instructor for the University of Arizona Study Abroad course “Sustaining Local Food, Biodiversity, and Livestock Grazing in the Alps,” contributing to both course design and instruction. Alessandra Gorlier is co-author of more than 60 scientific publications, with research interests centered on grassland ecology, grazing management, and vegetation science.