Roberto Danovaro is President of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy. Past-president of the Italian Society of Ecology, of the Italian Society of Limnology and Oceanography and of the European Federation of Scientific Societies. President of the Scientific Council of WWF Italy. Member of several international panels (IUCN, UNEP). Member of the EU Academy of Science. Coordinator of several EU and international projects. RD is Author of ca 450 international papers, and of 3 books. He received the Prize BMC Biology (London, 2010), the Award of French Society of Oceanography (2011), and the ENI Award “Protection of the Environment” (2013). In 2020 has been recognized by ExpertScape as the most influential World Scientist in the Category “Ocean and Seas for the decade 2010-2020”.